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Doug Marlette. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and raised in Durham, N.C., Laurel, Mississippi and Sanford Florida Doug Marlette graduated from Florida State University and began drawing political cartoons for The Charlotte Observer in 1972. He joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1987, New York Newsday in 1989, the Tallahassee Democrat
in 2002 and the Tulsa World in 2006.
His editorial cartoons and his comic strip, Kudzu, are syndicated in newspapers worldwide. He has won every major award for editorial cartooning including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. He has received the National Headliners Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons three times, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for editorial cartooning
twice, First Prize in the John Fischetti Memorial Cartoon Competition twice and was the first and only cartoonist ever awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and he has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS's Morning News, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's Nightline, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the Jim Lehrer News-Hour.
He has written an ethics column for Esquire and contributed to The New Republic, The Nation, Men's Journal, The Paris Review, Columbia Journalism Review and Salon.com.
His work is collected in 19 volumes, including In Your Face: A Cartoonist at Work, Faux Bubba: Bill and Hillary Go To Washington, Gone With The Kudzu, I Feel Your Pain, What Would Marlette Drive?, and A Town So Backwards Even the Episcopalians Handle Snakes. He also co-wrote the screenplay, 'Ex' with Pat Conroy.
The musical adaptation of his comic strip into Kudzu, A Southern Musical in collaboration with The Red Clay Ramblers was produced at Duke University and at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and has been published by Samuel French Co. The musical's cast album CD was released in 2003.
Doug Marlette's first novel, The Bridge, was published by HarperCollins in October, 2001 and was voted Best Book of the Year for Fiction by the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) in 2002. It was voted one of the best books of the last five years by BookSense, the American Booksellers Association. Paramount Pictures purchased the rights for
a film adaptation for Tom Cruise.
He was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001 and inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame in 2002. He serves on the UNC J-School's Board of Visitors.
He has been appointed a Gaylord Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma's College of Journalism and Mass Communication for 2006.
His second novel, Magic Time, will be published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the fall. www.dougmarlette.com
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Charles Martin earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University, and his M.A. in Journalism and Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. He served one year at Hampton University as an adjunct professor in the English department and as a doctoral fellow at Regent. In 1999, he left a career in business to pursue his writing. He and his
wife, Christy, live a stone's throw from the St. John's River in Jacksonville, Florida, with their three boys: Charlie, John T., and Rives. When he's not writing, Charles fishes with his boys, works in the yard with Christy, coaches T-ball, and kneels by his boys' beds at night. Right now, the boys are praying for two things: a boat with space for a cooler, three or four people, and
five or six rods because they're not catching any fish off the neighbor's dock, and Daddy's book. www.charlesmartinbooks.com
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Cathryn Michon, is an actress/comedian/author. Her books include The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex and The Grrl Genius Guide to Life. www.grrlgenius.com
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Victoria Moran is the author of ten books. An international speaker on wellness and personal growth and a certified life coach specializing in transformation and rejuvenation. Victoria’s latest book is Younger by the Day: 365 Ways
to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit. Moran’s articles have appeared in publications including Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Body & Soul,Weight Watchers Magazine, Natural Health, and Yoga Journal.
She has been a guest on TV and radio programs including Oprah!--two appearances. A native of Kansas City, Missouri and an adopted New Yorker, Victoria is married to an attorney and author. Her daughter Adair is an actor in New York City. www.vicotoriamoran.com
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Michael Morris. The Washington Post has compared Morris's work to Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor and to Mark Twain. But such comparisons are difficult for the native of the rural south to accept. "Growing up in a small town in North Florida, I always thought that writers lived in New York or
Paris," Morris explains. "And if writers were from the south they were eccentric alcoholics who lived in run down mansions. That was really my world view at the time. My mother and I had fled an abusive household and lived in a trailer. So I never thought that writing was in the realm of possibilities for me."
Morris began writing at the age of thirty-one, after he had worked as an aide to a US Senator, a salesman for a pharmaceutical company and as a public affairs manager. When his career in the pharmaceutical industry took him to North Carolina Morris discovered regional writers who shared a common knowledge of the rural lifestyle in which he had grown up
and soon his world view began to change. "Writers like Lee Smith and Tim McLaurin had a big influence on me," Morris states. "After reading their work, I began to contemplate telling my own stories." While studying under Tim McLaurin, Morris began the story that would eventually become his first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass.
A Place Called Wiregrass was released in April 2002 and received the Catherine Marshall Foundation's Christy Award for Best First Novel. A Place Called Wiregrass has been recommended by the Independent Booksellers Association as a Booksense 76 selection and included in the southern literature curriculum at three
universities.
Morris's second novel, Slow Way Home, was nationally ranked as one of the top three recommended books by the Independent Booksellers Association and named one of the best novels of 2003 by the Atlanta Journal Constitution and the St. Louis Dispatch.
Morris is also the author of a novella based on the Grammy nominated song, Live Like You Were Dying. The novella was also a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A graduate of Auburn University, Morris and his wife, Melanie, reside in Alabama. www.michaelmorrisbooks.com
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Marsha Moyer was born in Austin and grew up in Bryan/College Station in central Texas. After graduating from Bryan High School, she attended the University of Texas at Austin, and for the next 25 years held a variety of jobs, including those of secretary to two animal scientists in the field of swine management, newsletter editor at the Texas
A&M computing center, and assistant to the late chemist Karl Folkers, whose work in the field of coenzyme Q-10 research is world-renowned.
Marsha has written fiction since childhood, and in 1990 was awarded a three-month residency from the Syvenna Foundation for women writers in northeast Texas. Almost a decade later, the East Texas experience came full circle when she began the manuscript which would ultimately yield two novels, The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch and The Last
of the Honky-tonk Angels. A portion of the original manuscript was chosen first-place winner in the mainstream division of the Austin Writers’ League manuscript competition in July 2000, and in May 2001, publisher William Morrow purchased, at auction, The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch (published in 2002) and its sequel, The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels
(published in 2003). Sales to Random House Australia and Sony Magazines Japan followed.
A lifelong resident of her home state, Marsha recently sold the third and fourth installments in the Lucy Hatch series to Three Rivers Press, an imprint of Crown Publishers. Heartbreak Town will hit bookstores in summer 2007, with its successor (not yet titled) to follow in 2008. www.marshamoyer.com
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