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Page 2 • Cognotes 2011 Midwinter Meeting SAN DIEGO ALA/ERT Booklist Author Forum Kicks Off Midwinter January 7 Literary Fiction Panel Friday, January 7, 4:00-5:15 pm San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20D David Levithan David Levithan is the author of many acclaimed young-adult novels, including the New York Times bestselling Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn), which was adapted into a popular movie. He is also an editorial director his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the 2011 six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, Stewart O’Nan The Night Listener and MiStewart O’Nan chael Tolliver Lives. Three is the author of a miniseries starring Olymdozen award winpia Dukakis and Laura ning novels, includLinney were made from Susan Vreeland ing A Prayer for the David Levithan (© the first three Tales novels. Armistead Maupin Dying, The Night Jake Hamilton) The Night Listener became Country, and The a feature film starring Robin Vreeland ventured into fiction in 1988 Good Wife, as well as several books Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin’s with What Love Sees, a biographical of nonfiction, including, with Stephen newest novel is Mary Ann in Autumn. novel of a woman’s unwavering deKing, the bestselling Faithful. A sequel Maupin lives in San Francisco with termination to lead a full life despite to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish his husband, Christopher Turner. blindness. The book was made into a You Were CBS television movie starring Richard Sponsored by HarperCollins Here, StewThomas and Annabeth Gish. Vreeland art O’Nan’s Susan Vreeland is the author of the New York Times intimate new After Susan Vreeland graduated best sellers Girl in Hyacinth Blue, The novel, Em- from San Diego State University she Passion of Artemisia, and Luncheon of ily, Alone: A taught high school English in San the Boating Party. Her newest book is Novel, follows Diego beginning in 1969 and retired Clara and Mr. Tiffany. Emily Max- in 2000 after a 30-year career. ConSponsored by Random House well, a widow currently, she began writing features whose grown for newspapers and magazines in Click here for children have 1980, taking up subjects in art and Special Event updates long moved travel, and publishing 250 articles. away. As Emily grapples Stewart O’Nan (photo with her new by Trudy O’Nan) indepenAndre Dubus III dence, she discovers a hidden strength San Diego Convention Center, Sunday, January 9, 2011 and realizes that life always offers new Ballroom 20D 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. possibilities. Like most older women, Andre Dubus III grew Emily is a familiar yet invisible fig- Kathy Reichs up in mill towns on the ure, one rarely portrayed so honestly. Saturday, January 8, Merrimack River along Her mingled feelings—of pride and 2011 the Massachusetts-New regret, joy and sorrow—are gracefully 8:00-9:00 a.m. Hampshire border. He beKathy Reichs is a forendered in wholly unexpected ways. gan writing fiction at age O’Nan was born and raised and lives rensic anthropologist, like 22 just a few months after her character Temperwith his family in Pittsburgh. graduating from the Uniance Brennan, and creSponsored by Penguin versity of Texas at Austin ator of the Fox television with a Bachelors Degree hit “Bones”, now in its Armistead Maupin in Sociology. Because he Armistead Maupin was born in fifth season. Reichs has prefers to write in the Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew written 12 books in the morning, going from “the up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A Temperance Brennan sedream world to the dream graduate of the University of North ries, all New York Times world,” as the Irish writer Carolina, he served as a naval officer bestsellers, including a Edna O’Brien puts it, he in the Mediterranean and with the number-one title. She Kathy Reichs took mainly night jobs: lives in Charlotte, North River Patrol Force in Vietnam. bartender, office cleaner, Maupin worked as a reporter for a Carolina. VIRALS is her halfway house counselor, and for six newspaper in Charleston, South Caro- first novel for young readers. Visit www.kathyreichs.com to find months worked as an assistant to a lina, before being assigned to the San private investigator/bounty hunter. Francisco bureau of the Associated out more. Over the years Sponsored by Penguin Press in 1971. In 1976 he launched he’s also worked as a self-employed carpenter and college writhe new ALA Store is moving Fillion, National Library Week, ing teacher. He to the exhibit floor! With this Teen Tech Week, Read, Renew, is the author of new location, more space, Return Aluminum Water Bottle, Townie (Februa new layout and a new look, the 2011 Midwinter Conference T-Shirt, ary 2011), The store offers you a more convenient Fang-tastic Fiction: Twenty-First Garden of Last way to support ALA as you shop Century Paranormal Reads, WinDays and House for the most current professional ning Library Grants: A Game Plan, of Sand and Fog development materials and gifts, Reid’s Read-Alouds 2: Modern-Day (an Oprah Book Andre Dubus III posters, and other items to help Classics from C.S. Lewis to Lemony Club pick and a (photo by Marion you promote literacy and libraries. Snicket, In the Words of the Winfinalist for the Ettlinger) Shop for new and popular products ners: The Newbery and Caldecott National Book and pick up the most current mem- Medals, 2001-2010, and much more! Award). He lives with his family north bership information. Be sure to check your badge for of Boston. Some featured products include special offers, and visit us at booth Sponsored by Norton Harry Potter Stars Read, Nathan 1940! at Scholastic. The Lover’s Dictionary is his first novel for adults. Sponsored by Macmillan Midwin Rhodes to Present 12th Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture Richard Rhodes (photo by Nancy Warner) Sunrise Speaker Series Returns Richard Rhodes Saturday, January 8 4:00-5:00 pm San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20D Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of 22 books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s “Frontline” and “American Experience” series. An affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and abroad. Sponsored by Random House See the ALA Store on the Exhibit Floor T CLICK HERE TO REGISTER http://www.davidlevithan.com http://www.armisteadmaupin.com http://www.svreeland.com http://www.stewart-onan.com http://www.richardrhodes.com http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/specialevents/index.cfm http://www.kathyreichs.com http://www.kathyreichs.com http://www.andredubusiii.com http://www.alastore.ala.org http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/midwinter/index.cfm

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ALA Cognotes Midwinter San Diego Preview Issue

ALA Cognotes Midwinter San Diego Preview Issue
Ted Danson to be Featured During President's Program
Spend a Special Afternoon with Neil Gaiman and Nancy Pearl
Visiting the Exhibits - A "Must Do" for a Complete Meeting Experience
ALA/ERT Booklist Author Forum Kicks Off Midwinter January 7
Sunrise Speaker Series Returns
See the ALA Store on the Exhibit Floor
Rhodes to Present 12th Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture
Learn to Lead a Great Discussion
ALA Mobile Connects at Midwinter
Exhibits Open Friday, January 7
ALA Midwinter Meeting Exhibits
Wrap-Up - Rev-Up!
PopTop Stage/Library Product Spotlight
Spotlight on Adult Literature
ALA JobLIST Placement Center Open January 8-9

ALA Cognotes Midwinter San Diego Preview Issue