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10:00 AM – 10:10 AM WELCOME

10:10 AM – 11:10 AM NARRATIVE NONFICTION PANEL

Moderator: Gretchen Young
Featuring:
Elizabeth Alexander,
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Susan Cheever, DRINKING IN AMERICA
Kate Mulgrew, BORN WITH TEETH
Stefany Shaheen, ELLE & COACH

11:10 AM – 11:55 AM FEATURED SPEAKER /

MARIA SEMPLE CENTER STAGE

11:55 AM – 12:40 PM BRUNCH

12:40 PM – 1:30 PM LITERARY FICTION PANEL

Moderator: Judy Clain
Featuring:
Susan Jane Gilman, THE ICE CREAM
QUEEN OF ORCHARD STREET
N. K. Jemisin, THE FIFTH SEASON
Chigozie Obioma, THE FISHERMEN

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM BOOK BUYING BREAK

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION WITH

LEE BOUDREAUX BOOKS
Moderator: Lee Boudreaux
Featuring:
Elizabeth Poliner, AS CLOSE TO US AS
BREATHING (Winter 2016)

B O O K S F O R YO U N G R E A D E R S

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 NARRATIVE NONFICTION PANEL
10:10 AM – 11:10 AM
Moderator: Gretchen Young
VP, Executive Editor of Grand Central Publishing
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
author of The Light of the World
elizabeth alexander composed and recited “Praise song for the
day” for President barack obama’s 2009 inauguration. she is
the author of six books of poetry–including american sublime,
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize–and is the first winner of the
Jackson Prize for Poetry and a national endowment for the arts
and guggenheim Fellow. she is the Frederick iseman Professor
of Poetry at yale university.
THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD | Grand Central Publishing
hardcover | 978-1-4555-9987-5 | $26.00 | april 2015
trade Paperback | 978-1-4555-1385-7 | $15.99 | october 2016
SUSAN CHEEVER
author of Drinking in America
susan cheever is the author of the biographies e.e. cummings,
american bloomsbury, and my name is bill, as well as five
novels and four memoirs. her work has appeared in the new
yorker, new york times, and newsday, among other magazines
and anthologies. she has been a guggenheim Fellow, has
been nominated for a national book critics circle award, and
won the boston globe winship medal. she attended brown
university and has taught at yale, brown, columbia, the new
school, and bennington college, among others.
DRINKING IN AMERICA | Twelve
hardcover | 978-1-4555-1387-1 | $28.00 | october 2015
trade paperback | 978-1-4555-1385-7 | $15.99 | october 2016
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NARRATIVE NONFICTION PANEL
KATE MULGREW
author of Born with Teeth
kate mulgrew is an american actress noted for her roles as
captain kathryn Janeway on star trek: Voyager, mary ryan
on ryan’s hope, and, most recently, galina “red” reznikov
on orange is the new black. she has performed in numerous
television shows, theater productions, and movies. she is the
winner of a golden satellite award, a saturn award, and an
obie award, and has been nominated for golden globe and
emmy awards.
BORN WITH TEETH | Little, Brown and Company
hardcover | 978-9-316-33431-0 | $28.00 | april 2015
trade Paperback | back bay books | 978-0-316-33432-7 | $15.99 | January 2016
STEFANY SHAHEEN
author of Elle & Coach
stefany shaheen has dedicated herself to making life better for
people living with diabetes. a harvard graduate, she launched
a company to help those with chronic conditions better manage
eating and exercise. she is on the board of trustees at Joslin
diabetes center, served as the national chair for the Juvenile
diabetes research Foundation children’s congress, and
currently serves on the Foundation’s research and advocacy
committee. she is a key spokesperson for her mother,
Jeanne shaheen, u.s. senator and former new hampshire
governor, and currently serves on the city council for the city
of Portsmouth, new hampshire, where she and her husband,
craig welch, live with their four children.
ELLE & COACH | Hachette Books
hardcover | 978-0-316-25876-0 | $27.00 | august 2015
trade Paperback | back bay books | 978-0-316-25875-3 | $15.99 | august 2016
 FEATURED SPEAKER / MARIA SEMPLE CENTER STAGE
11:10 AM – 11:55 AM
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MARIA SEMPLE
author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
maria semple spent her first few years traveling around
europe with her parents. while living in spain, her father
lorenzo wrote the pilot for the tV series batman. the family
packed up and moved to los angeles. after lorenzo became
established as a screenwriter, the family moved to aspen,
colorado. For high school, maria was sent away to choate
rosemary hall and loved every minute of it.
college was at barnard, where maria had big plans of
becoming a novelist or a teacher. those dreams got derailed
when she sold a movie script to 20th century Fox just after
graduation. the movie didn’t get made, but she moved to la
and made a living writing more screenplays that didn’t get
made. maria got into tV when her friend darren star–whom
she’d met on the ski slopes in aspen years earlier–gave her
a job on beverly hills, 90210. thus began a 15-year career in
television, writing for good shows like ellen, mad about you,
and arrested development. and bad shows you’ll have to look
elsewhere to find.
maria had a baby, quit television and finally gave novel-
writing a try. this one is mine was published by little, brown
& company in december 2008. maria, her boyfriend, and
daughter moved to seattle where her second novel, where’d
you go, bernadette, begins. maria loves living in seattle–
thank you for asking–where she teaches writing, studies
poetry, and tries, with mixed results, to stay off the internet.
WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE | Little, Brown and Company
trade Paperback | back bay books } 978-0-316-20426-2 | $14.99 | april 2013
mass market | little brown | 978-0-316-33360-3 | $8.00 | august 2014
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LITERARY FICTION PANEL
12:40 PM – 1:30 PM
Moderator: Judy Clain
VP, Editor-In-Chief of Little, Brown & Company
SUSAN JANE GILMAN
author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
susan Jane gilman is the bestselling author of hypocrite in a
Pouffy white dress, kiss my tiara, and undress me in the temple
of heaven. she provides commentary for nPr and has written
for the new york times, los angeles times, and ms. magazine.
she earned an mFa in creative writing from the university of
michigan. she divides her time between geneva, switzerland,
and her hometown of new york city.
THE ICE CREAM QUEEN OF ORCHARD STREET | Grand Central Publishing
trade Paperback | 978-0-446-69694-4 | $15.00 | July 2015
N. K. JEMISIN
author of The Fifth Season
n. k. Jemisin is a brooklyn author whose short fiction and
novels have been multiply nominated for the hugo, world
Fantasy award, and nebula, shortlisted for the crawford
and tiptree, and have won the locus award. her website is
nkjemisin.com.
THE FIFTH SEASON | Orbit
trade Paperback | 978-0-316-22929-6 | $15.99 | august 2015
CHIGOZIE OBIOMA
author of The Fishermen
chigozie obioma was born in 1986 in akure, nigeria. his short
stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly review and
new madrid. he was a Fall 2012 omi Fellow at ledig house,
new york. he has lived in nigeria, cyprus, and turkey, and
currently resides in the united states, where he has completed
an mFa in creative writing at the university of michigan. the
Fishermen is his first novel.
THE FISHERMEN | Little, Brown and Company
hardcover | 978-0-316-33837-0 | $26.00 | april 2015
trade Paperback | back bay books | 978-0-316-33835 | $15.99 | July 2016
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1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Moderator: Lee Boudreaux
VP, Editorial Director of Little, Brown and Company
GRETCHEN YOUNG
moderator of narrative nonfiction Panel
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author of As Close to Us as Breathing
elizabeth Poliner is the author of mutual life & casualty, a
novel-in-stories, and the forthcoming collection of poems,
what you know in your hands. her stories and poems have TK
appeared in the kenyon review, colorado review, the moderator of Featured speaker / maria semple
southern review, Prairie schooner, and many other journals. center stage
a recipient of seven individual artist grants from the d.c.
commission on the arts and humanities, she has also been description tttkkkk
awarded fiction scholarships to the bread loaf and sewanee
writers’ conferences. she teaches creative writing at hollins
university.

JUDY CLAIN
moderator of literary Fiction Panel
AS CLOSE TO US AS BREATHING | Lee Boudreaux description tttkkkk
hardcover | 978-0-316-38414-8 | $27.00 | march 2016

LEE BOUDREAUX
moderator of book club discussion with
lee boudreaux books
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