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W. Bruce Cameron is an internationally known humor columnist. Born in Petoskey, Michigan, in 1960, he is the author of the 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, a best selling book upon which the TV show starring John Ritter is based. His most recent work is How to Remodel a Man.
www.wbrucecameron.com
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Marshall Chapman was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. To date she has released ten critically acclaimed albums, and her songs have been recorded by a variety of artists including Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Wynonna, Joe Cocker, Irma Thomas, Jimmy Buffett, Jessi
Colter, Dion, Tanya Tucker, Russ Taff, Olivia Newton-John, Sawyer Brown, Mindy McCready, Conway Twitty, Greg "Fingers" Taylor, Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, and The Uppity Blues Women. She has toured extensively on her own and opened shows for everybody from John Prine and Jimmy Buffett to Jerry Lee Lewis and The Ramones. www.tallgirl.com
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Mark Childress was born in 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Childress is the author of six novels: "A World Made of Fire" (Knopf, 1984), "V For Victor" (Knopf, 1988) "Tender" (Harmony, 1990), "Crazy in Alabama" (Putnam, 1993), and "Gone for Good," (Knopf, 1988) and "One Mississippi," published in July 2006 by Little, Brown & Co. Childress is
now working on a new novel and a film project. He lives all over the place, currently in New York City. www.markchildress.com
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Will Clarke, author of The Worthy and Lord Vishnu's Love Handles. Will doesn't want you to know where he lives or what he's doing next.
Will Clarke's interview video
www.booktourvirgin.blogs.com/
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William J. Cobb is the author of a novel, The Fire Eaters (W.W. Norton), a book of stories, The White Tattoo (Ohio State UP), and the forthcoming novel Goodnight, Texas (Unbridled Books). His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Mississippi Review, American Short Fiction, The Antioch Review, New Letters, Puerto del Sol,
and many others. (See link for particular publication information.) He’s been fortunate to have received a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant for fiction, the Sandstone Prize, a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, and others. He lives in Pennsylvania and Colorado. www.williamjcobb.com/
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Elizabeth Crook was born in Houston in 1959. She has lived in Texas, Australia, and Washington, D.C, and currently lives in Austin with her husband and two children. She is the author of three novels: The Raven’s Bride and Promised Lands, published by Doubleday in 1991
and 1994, and The Night Journal published by Viking in February 2006. Her work has also appeared in anthologies, and in periodicals such as Texas Monthly, Publishers Weekly, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Elizabeth was selected the honored writer for 2006 Texas Writers' Month, joining previous honorees O. Henry, J. Frank Dobie, John Graves, Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter, Elmer Kelton, Liz Carpenter, Sarah Bird, James Michener, and Horton Foote. Her first novel, The Raven's Bride, is currently the Texas Reads: One Book One
Texas selection.
She has served on the council for the Texas Institute of Letters and is now a member of the TIL as well as of the Philosophical Society of Texas. www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
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