Authors
Carolyn Haines
Fever Moon
When I was growing up in the small town of Lucedale, Mississippi, I had big dreams. I wanted to be a cowgirl, a writer, and Nancy Drew. Life has surely thrown me more than a few twists, but dreams are hard to destroy. Today, I’m all three--sort of. Of course the only mysteries I solve are in Zinnia, Mississippi. And I have the help of Sarah Booth Delaney, Tinkie, Cece, Coleman, Millie and a host of other characters. They’ll be quick to tell you they do all the hard work--I’m just the writer.
Masha Hamilton
The Camel Bookmobile
Staircase of a Thousand Steps, was a Booksense pick by independent booksellers and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her second novel, The Distance Between Us, was named one of the best books of 2004 by Library Journal. Her third novel, The Camel Bookmobile, is also a Booksense pick for its publication month of April 2007. She worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press for five years in the Middle East, then spent five years in Moscow, where she was a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a newspaper column, “Postcard from Moscow,” and reported for NBC/Mutual Radio. She traveled to Afghanistan in the spring of 2004 to report on the changing situation for women. In 2006, she traveled in Kenya to research The Camel Bookmobile and interview drought and famine victims.
Lauretta Hannon
The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life
was born too soon, an Rh Negative baby. Two blood transfusions and other problems convinced the doctors that there was no hope. Death was certain. But so was Mama. My childhood was hard, but I was well loved. Through it all I had books, and stories sustained me. By the seventh grade I was studying Eastern philosophies and listening to Zoot Sims and Gustav Holst with my dad. Music and spirituality have always been my greatest influences.
Mark Harrell
musician and band leader of Woody and the Logarhythms and writer/performer of the Pulpwood Queen anthem, The Pulpwood Queens. Mark is a Jefferson, Texas native.
http://www.markharrellmusic.com/
Karen Harrington
Janeology
Karen Harrington was born and raised in Texas, where she still lives with her husband and children. She received a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Karen's first writing gigs were in corporate America as an editor and speechwriter. Her fiction writing has been recognized by the Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Texas Film Institute.
Jaon Headley
Small Town Odds
author of Small Town Odds
Heather Hepler
The Cupcake Queen
I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, which I think is one of the cooler places to be born, because initially people think I’m being funny—like I’m saying I was born on the moon, but then they see I’m actually being serious. It feels like since then I’ve lived nearly everywhere (well, only in the US—which is a bummer because I want to travel so much). In high school, I was in band and honors society and science club and worked on the school newspaper. All this in Texas where football was king and cheerleaders were the school royalty. When people ask me what I remember about middle school and high school, I stand there for several seconds not saying anything. This isn’t because I can’t remember anything, but because I remember too many things and I can’t figure out what to say out loud.
Robin Hemley
Do Over
is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.
Patti Callahan Henry
Driftwood Summer
Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times Bestselling author of six novels with Penguin/NAL (Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Betweeen the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, and Driftwood Summer). Patti is hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction. She has been short-listed for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Fiction Novel of the Year. She is a frequent speaker at luncheons, book clubs and women’s groups where she discusses the importance of storytelling and anything else they want to talk about.
Kathy Hepinstall
Prince of Lost Places
was born in Odessa, Texas, and spent a large part of her childhood two hours from the Louisiana border, where most of her relatives reside. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Denise Hildreth
Flies on the Butter
author of
"Savannah from Savannah"
"Savannah Comes Undone"
"Savannah by the Sea
Gloria Hilliard
In the Shadow of the Sparrow
is the author of In the Shadow of the Sparrow
Ron Hogan
The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane!: American Films of the 1970s
is the author of The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane, a visual tribute to '70s Hollywood.
Kimberly Willis Holt
Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family
author of
"Waiting for Gregory"
"Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family"
"Dancing in Cadillac Light"
"When Zachary Beaver Came to Town"
"Mister and Me"
"My Louisiana Sky"
Ad Hudler
Man of the House
I grew up on the High Plains of Eastern Colorado, home to few trees, ample sagebrush, cowboys and wheat fields. The nearest airport or McDonalds was 164 miles away, but I was never bored. My family has owned the local newspaper in Burlington for five generations, and at nine years old I started working as (in my grandfather's words) the "super sanitation engineer." When I got older I started writing stories and taking pictures of everything from burned-down mobile homes to prize-winning sows at the Kit Carson County Fair.
Edward Humes
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
received the Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting in 1989 for his coverage of the military, including dispatches from Panama; the unjust execution of an Army private during World War II; and a year-long investigation of fatal military helicopter crashes linked to flawed night-vision devices.