The San Antonio Book Festival is proud to announce our list of authors for the 2015 Festival. This year, the lineup features esteemed local authors and widely acclaimed award-winners. From photography to poetry, YA to murder mysteries, history to conservation, and cookbooks to the O.K. corral, this year’s lineup has a little something for every kind of reader. Below is our comprehensive list of authors, listed alphabetically. For author bios, photographs, and more, visit our Meet the Authors page.
Kenna Lang Archer, Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River
Blue Balliett, Pieces and Players
Matt Barreto, Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
Chris Barton, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
Diane Gonzales Bertrand, There’s a Name for This Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que siento: Cuentos
Sheila Black, Wen Kroy
Scott Blackwood, See How Small
Jen Bryant, The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
Robert Bryce, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
Rosemary Catacalos, Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song
Raúl Colón, Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures
Rachel Crawford, Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song
Tracy Dahlby, Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent’s Notebook
Geoff Dyer, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Arielle Eckstut, The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
Lewis F. Fisher, American Venice: The Epic Story of the San Antonio River
Carolyn Dee Flores, Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of Numbers
Henry Flores, Latinos and the Voting Rights Act
Carrie Fountain, Instant Winner
Jack Gantos, The Key that Swallowed Joey Pigza
Xavier Garza, The Great and Mighty Nikko
Mary Carolyn Hollers George, Rosengren’s Books: An Oasis for Mind and Spirit
Jeff Guinn, Glorious
Robert L. Gulley, Heads Above Water: The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
J.R. Helton, The Jugheads
Juan Felipe Herrera, Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
Joe Holley, The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust and Texas Politics
Martha Louise Hunter, Painting Juliana
Francisco Jiminez, Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Bret Anthony Johnston, Remember Me Like This
Matt Lankes, Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film
Diane Lawson, A Tightly Raveled Mind
Andrew Levy, Huck Finn’s America
David Liss, The Day of Atonement
José Lozano, Little Chanclas
Seamus McGraw, Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change
Josh Malerman, Bird Box
Mark Menjivar, The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
Mary Guerrero Milligan, Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song
Tomás Q. Morin, The Heights of Machu Picchu
Naomi Shihab Nye, The Turtle of Oman
Michael O’Brien, The Face of Texas
Richard Parker, Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America
Kate Payne, Hip Girl’s Guide to the Kitchen
Aaronetta Hamilton Pierce, Black is the Color of Strength
Michael Pitre, Fives and Twenty-fives
Neal Pollack, Repeat
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Eli Reed, Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home
Richard Reeves, Infamy
Ross Ritchell, The Knife
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Latina/os and World War II
Lance Rubin, Denton Little’s Deathdate
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Barefoot Dogs
Jan Jarboe Russell, The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
René Saldaña, Jr., Dale, dale, dale: Una fiesta de números / Hit It, Hit It, Hit It: A Fiesta of Numbers
Marian Schwartz, Anna Karenina
Cyndy Severson, Hill Country Houses
Maggie Shipstead, Astonish Me
Mary Helen Specht, Migratory Animals
David Henry Sterry, The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
Natalia Sylvester, Chasing the Sun
Don Tate, The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
Roseanne Greenfield Thong, ‘Twas Nochebuena
Helen Thorpe, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Chris Tomlinson, Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name – One White, One Black
Terry Thompson-Anderson, Texas on the Table: People, Places, and Recipes Celebrating the Lone Star State
Luis Alberto Urrea, Wandering Time: Western Notebooks
Amanda Eyre Ward, The Same Sky
Frederick Williams, Black is the Color of Strength
Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Andrew Yang, Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
Emilio Zamora, The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz
Jennifer Ziegler, Revenge of the Flower Girls