In what year was the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival, which has featured the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the book "Angela's Ashes" and other top authors and thinkers, first held?
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Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival The Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival takes place the last weekend of September in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Held annually since 2007, it attracts many of the world's top authors and thinkers, including Pulitzer Prize winners. Presenters have included Frank McCourt, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Greg Mortenson, Khaled Hosseini, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Elizabeth Edwards, Seymour Hersh, Michael Pollan, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Gilbert, Carl Hiaasen, and P. J. O'Rourke.
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Frank McCourt Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Angela's Ashes", a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
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Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is a U.S. novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
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Susan Deer Cloud Susan Deer Cloud (born October 20, 1950), a mixed lineage Catskill Native, is an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction, and creative essays.
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PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction is awarded by the PEN American Center biennially "to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. It is intended that the winning book possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose four dozen books and countless other publications continue to provide an important and incisive commentary on the American social, intellectual and political scene."
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A Scrap of Time and Other Stories A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, written by Ida Fink, is a collection of fictional short stories relating various characters to the Jewish experience of the Holocaust. Originally written in Polish, it was translated by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose. The novel won the first Anne Frank Prize, as well as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Published in 1987, this novel illustrates the continuing effect of the Holocaust on the Jewish psyche.
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James Alan McPherson James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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An Na An Na (born 1972) is a South Korea-born American children's book author. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She gained success with her very first novel "A Step From Heaven", published by Front Street Press in 2001, which won the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It was also a finalist for the National Book Award, Young People's Literature, and later found its way onto numerous "best book" lists. Na still makes frequent visits to middle schools to talk about her works and encourages young Asian-American students to become artists and harness their creativity. She cites Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and Sandra Cisneros's "The House on Mango Street" among the influences on her writing and also admires the work of Madeleine L'Engle and of her first writing teacher, Jacqueline Woodson. She divides her time between Oakland, California and Warren, Vermont.
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Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival ITEF - The Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival, named after the famous modernist Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, and critic Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, is an international literary event held in the city of Istanbul to focus on a variety of genres, and to bring together writers, publishers, literary translators, critics and journalists for a series of inspirational encounters. Tanpınar is the author of famous novels such as "A Mind at Peace", "Song in Mahur", "Waiting In The Wings", "The Institute of Synchronized Clocks", and "Woman in the Moon".
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Joyce Dyer Joyce Dyer (born July 20, 1947) is a U.S. writer of nonfiction and memoirs whose most recent memoir, "Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood", tells the story of the author's attempt to remember the first five years of her life growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in Akron called Old Wolf Ledge (known to residents as "Goosetown"), famous for its glacial formations, breweries, and cereal mills. "Goosetown" is the prequel to "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town", her book about the decades when Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio. Earlier memoirs were "In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey" and "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town." She has also edited two collections of essays, "Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers" and "From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines." Her first book, "The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings", was a scholarly study of Kate Chopin, a turn-of-the-century American writer. Joyce Dyer is Professor Emerita of English at Hiram College, where she continues to teach occasional courses in creative writing. Her teaching and writing specialties are essay and hybrid nonfiction. Dyer's biography is included in "Contemporary Authors", volume 146, and in the New Revision Series, volume 91.
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Savannah Book Festival The Savannah Book Festival is a literary festival held each February in Savannah, Georgia, that features authors and educational events. The Savannah Book Festival has featured best-selling authors Stephen King, James Patterson and David Baldacci, Pulitzer Prize-winners Garry Wills, Geraldine Brooks and Isabel Wilkerson, National Book Award winner Ben Fountain, and Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore.
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Annie Dillard Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. From 1980, Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Tony Horwitz Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback (1987), Baghdad Without a Map (1991), "Confederates in the Attic" (1998), "Blue Latitudes" (AKA "Into the Blue") (2002), "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" (2008), and his most recent book "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" (2011).
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Billi Gordon Billi Gordon (born Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr. on September 2, 1954 in Dowagiac, Michigan), is an author, television writer, neuroscientist and formerly an actor and model,
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Thomas Merton Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.
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Anthony Awards The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Among the most prestigious awards in the world of mystery writers, the Anthony Awards have helped boost the careers of many recipients.
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Ellie Mathews Ellie Mathews (born October 22, 1945, Port Angeles, Washington) is an author of fiction and nonfiction works including "The Linden Tree" (winner of the 2007 Milkweed Editions Prize for Children’s Literature). Her recipe for "Salsa Couscous Chicken" was the Grand Prize Winner of the 1998 Pillsbury Bake-Off.
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Edna Kenton Edna Kenton (March 17, 1876 — February 28, 1954) was an American writer and literary critic. Kenton is best remembered for her 1928 work "The Book of Earths," which collected various unusual and controversial theories about a hollow earth, Atlantis, and similar matters.
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Nava Macmel-Atir Nava Macmel-Atir (Hebrew: נאוה מקמל-עתיר‎ ‎ ; born 27 August 1964) is a prominent Israeli author, playwright and poet. She is best known for having written the books "Adi's Jewel" (Hebrew: העדי של עדי) and "Ot me-Avshalom" (Hebrew: אות מאבשלום), which became a bestseller and has earned Macmel-Atir numerous commemorations and awards.
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Kevin Gilbert (author) Kevin Gilbert (10 July 1933 – 1 April 1993) was a 20th-century Indigenous Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. Kevin Gilbert, a Wiradjuri warrior, was born on the banks of the Kalara, Lachlan River. He was the first Aboriginal playwright, printmaker and author of the first political work on Aboriginal issues. He was an active Human Rights defender and was involved in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972 and its re-establishment on a permanent basis in 1992. In 1979 Kevin led the National Aboriginal Government protest on Capital Hill, Canberra. His vision for a continent with integrity led to him being Chair of the Treaty ’88 Campaign for a sovereign treaty between Aboriginal Nations and Peoples and non-Aboriginal Australians, as a proper foundation for all people living on this land now known as Australia. He defined the legal argument for a Treaty/Treaties and Aboriginal Sovereignty in Aboriginal Sovereignty, Justice, the Law and Land. He is also the winner of the 1978 National Book Council prize for writers for Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert (1977).
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Angela Morgan Angela Morgan ("circa" 1875 - January 24, 1957) was an American poet. Her given name at birth was Nina Lillian, which she later changed to Angela.
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Bialik Prize The Bialik Prize is an annual literary award given by the municipality of Tel Aviv, Israel for significant accomplishments in Hebrew literature. The prize is named in memory of Hayyim Nahman Bialik. There are two separate prizes, one specifically for "Literature", which is in the field of fiction, and the other for "Jewish thought" (חכמת ישראל). The prize was established in January 1933, Bialik's 60th birthday.