2007 festival of books - official guide

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7: Our Rhythms:A Tribute to Poetry.Rhymes. Rhythm. Art. Poetry is not just classic Longfellow any-more. Explore the new role of poetry in today’s society with 2005Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser,S.D. Poet Laureate David Allan Evans, Wyoming Poet LaureateDavid Romtvedt, as well as Bill Holm, Deb Marquart, Jim Reese,Lydia Whirlwind Soldier and Patrick Hicks. Sponsored by Dead-wood Public Library.

8: Our World:A Tribute to Non-Fiction.Books mimic life. Life is non-fiction. Real world topics, includ-ing politics, simple pleasures, personal stories, book choices andsports will be discussed with a host of non-fiction writers, includ-ing Sports Illustrated editor Rob Fleder, South Dakota author DanO’Brien, Jonathan Cohn, author of a book about health care costs,and obituary writer Marilyn Johnson. Sponsored by South Dako-ta Public Broadcasting.

9: Our Youth:A Tribute to Children’s Literature.When it comes to things for kids to see and do at the Festival, thereis much to choose from. Visit the Bug’s Eye View exhibit at the el-ementary school gym and — the best thing — listen to great au-thors and illustrators! Presenters include Sonia Manzano (bestknown as Maria on Sesame Street), illustrators Carolyn Conahan,Don Montileaux and Warren Hanson and children’s history-themed book authors Ann Bausum and Jean Patrick, Pamela SmithHill, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and Kristin Donnan. Sponsoredby First Western Bank.

28: Our Fantasies:A Tribute to Fiction and Storytelling.Find yourself in another world with novelists and fiction authorsincluding Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford, bestselling authorIvan Doig, National Book Award winner Pete Dexter, mysterywriter Craig Johnson and many others, including several debutnovelists. Sponsored by Messengers of Healing Winds Foundation

29: Our Creativity:A Tribute to Writers’Support.Find out how to make the statement “I have always wanted to writea book” a reality. Some of the best in the writing industry will speakand many will offer critiques of your book ideas. Editors, public-ity pros from Milkweed and Harcourt, directors of small pressesand many authors who have successfully published will be on-hand to answer questions about breaking into the writing world.Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

30: Our Culture:A Tribute to History & Tribal Writing.The only way we know where we are going is to understand wherewe have come from. Learn about history from Don’t Know Muchseries author Kenneth C. Davis, David Laskin, Robert Bonner,Louis Warren and others. Tribal history will be presented by JosephMarshall III, Edward Valandra, Tim Giago, and Craig Howe withmembers of the Oak Lake Writers’Society. Sponsored by BlackHills Corporation.

CONTENTS

Welcome to the Fifth Annual South Dakota Festival of Books—where readers and writers rendezvous. The S.D.

Humanities Council, home of the S.D. Center for the Book, annually presents the festival, a free event that is open

to the public. Please use this insert to plan your voyage to the extraordinary adventures at the Festival of Books!

4 Mayors Welcome

4 Advertising Listing

10-20 Presenters

21 Map of Downtown

22-25 Schedule of Events

26 Exhibitors

Cover photo by: Johnny Sundby.

Deadwood Chamber of Commerce

SD Dept of Tourism

Welcome…THE CITY OF DEADWOOD and theDeadwood Historic Preservation Com-mission are pleased to once again hostthis exceptional event, the South Dako-ta Festival of Books! We thank theSouth Dakota Humanities Council’sCenter for the Book, an affiliate of theNational Endowment for the Humani-ties, as a major partner in the Festival ofBooks. We would also like to thank theDeadwood Public Library, as well as allof the organizations and volunteers whohelped make this book festival possible.

We are eager to welcome the vast diversity authors to Deadwood and pro-vide an occasion for readers to meet their favorite writers. The two-and-a-half day festival, held within downtown Deadwood, is sure to appeal to awide range of interests and ages. We are sure everyone will find somethingto their liking; from children’s activities, to works on history, tribal writ-ing, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and storytelling!

South Dakota is a diverse state, with varied interests, and we are pleasedto bring an equally wide-range of writers together for the Fifth AnnualSouth Dakota Festival of Books. Please join us in supporting the Center’smission to “celebrate the written word in South Dakota, extol the rich her-itage of the state, and encourage authorship, literacy and reading” — Dead-wood-style!

Mayor Francis Toscana

4 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Adams Museum & House . . . . . . . . . . .10

Big Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Black Hills State University . . . . . . . . .12

Book Shop (The) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Border’s Book Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Center For Western Studies . . . . . . . . . .14

CK West Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action .18

Harper Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Kilian Community College . . . . . . . . . .19

Milkweed Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Mount Rushmore History Association .25

Northern State University . . . . . . . . . . .27

Picador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Pine Hill Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Prairie Pages Bookseller . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Schaaps RV Traveland . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

SD Historical Society Press . . . . . . . . . .2

South Dakota State Library . . . . . . . . . . .6

South Dakota State University . . . . . . .11

South Dakotans for the Arts . . . . . . . . .27

State Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

TDG Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

This Stretch of the River . . . . . . . . . . . .16

University of Sioux Falls . . . . . . . . . . . .17

University of South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . .4

ADVERTISING LISTING

For more information visit sdhumanities.org/festival or contact the S.D. Human-ities Council at (605) 688-6113 or [email protected]. Time and presenterslisted are subject to change. Changes will be announced on the festival website and“The Festival Survival Guide,” available at the Information booth in Exhibitors Hall.


SOME PEOPLE PICTURE poets ashermit-like, hiding out in win-

dowless rooms, exploring the uni-verse with just a pencil, blank paperand a wastebasket. That wouldn’tdescribe retired Nebraska insur-ance executive Ted Kooser, espe-cially not during his tenure as thenation’s poet laureate from 2004 to2006. He’s a traveler and he likesbig windows.

Kooser spoke to over 200 audi-ences in 47 states during his 20months as the country’s most cele-brated poet. He graciously partici-pated in over a hundred media in-terviews, answeredhundreds of emailsand letters, and nev-er bothered to get anunlisted phone at hisrural Garland, Neb.,home.

“There have beentimes when I havebeen so sick of poet-ry, of reading it andtalking about it, thatif Homer had beengiving a reading ofThe Iliad [at UNL] I wouldn’t haveshown up,” he recently wrote in anEnglish department newsletter atthe University of Nebraska, wherehe continues to teach. “But thismalaise will pass, and it’s fun to bespending time with my poetry stu-dents, picking over their work.”

Since officially stepping aside aspoet laureate in May of 2006, he hasfound more time to read and writeat the old storefront in little Dwight,Neb., near his home. Colorful arti-ficial flowers fill the big windows(he jokingly calls himself the town’sArtificial Florist). But he still con-tributes his time to promoting the

art of poetry. He plans to continuethe American Life in Poetry columnthat has an estimated newspaperreadership of 12 million. And hestill goes on the road; in fact, he willparticipate in the South Dakota Fes-tival of Books in Deadwood.

All featured poets at this year’sfestival reside in South Dakota andnearby states, and much of whatthey write is rooted in the land andpeople of the northern plains. JimReese, an assistant professor ofEnglish, just published a collectionof poems titled These Trespasses,an exploration of college football,

asparagus and a trav-eling salesman in aCougar. Well-knownwriter and artist Ly-dia Whirlwind Sol-dier has writtenpoignantly about thevalues and strengthsof the Lakota culture.

Still, the poetrytrack also has an in-ternational flavor.Several of the writershave lived overseas,

and their poetry is heavily influ-enced by forays to foreign coun-tries.

• Bill Holm lives in Minneota,Minn. and taught at SouthwestState in Marshall, Minn., but he al-so taught in China and spends sum-mers in Iceland, where he hostswriting workshops.

• Patrick Hicks, a native Min-nesotan, studied in England andtaught in Spain and Germany.

• David Allan Evans was award-ed Fulbright Scholarships to studyand teach in China. Now retiredfrom teaching, he lives in SiouxFalls.

M U S I C & P O E T R Y

MUSIC LIES IN THE QUIET of all good

poetry, so it’s not so surprising that two

of the featured poets in Deadwood are

also active members of musical groups.

David Romtvedt of Buffalo, Wyo., plays

with the Fireants and Debra Marquart

of Ames, Ia., performs with The Bone

People.

Romtvedt is Wyoming’s poet laure-

ate. He was searching for a friend’s dog

at the Johnson County Fair in 2004

when the governor approached him and

told him the good news. He later wrote:

She’sgoneandmy friend isgoing tokillme,

Poet laureatebedamned.So Idon’t properly

ThanktheGovernor,anddisappearintothecrowds

Askingpeople if they’veseen the lostdog.

A few C and D chords, and that could

be the chorus of a country song. But

Romtvedt is not a cowboy poet, and the

Fireants are Cajun, not country. They

usually perform at schools, libraries and

festivals.

Marquart, now an associate profes-

sor of English at Iowa State, toured with

a rock band in the 1980s and now plays

with a jazz and blues group called The

Bone People. Her book, TheHunger

Bone:RockandRoll Stories,delves into

her musical experiences.

The characters struggle financially

and for fame, gradually understanding

that the road, rather than leading to suc-

cess, is taking a heavy toll. Sound like the

makings of a poem?

Ted Kooser: The Traveling PoetThese are not the poets of windowless rooms


WHEN PETE DEXTER arrives in Dead-wood, he’ll be returning to the setting

of his book by the same name, a fictional-ized account of Wild Bill Hickok and com-pany during the gold rush.

But, fiction won’t be the on-ly menu item for Dexter in thisstoried burg. Instead, the Uni-versity of South Dakota alumand celebrated novelist will betalking non-fiction, the genreof his most recent work, PaperTrails: True Stories of Confu-sion, Mindless Violence, andForbidden Desires, a Surpris-ing Number of Which Are Notabout Marriage.

The book is a compilation of columns hepenned in his previous career as a newspa-perman. Dexter worked for the Philadel-phia Inquirer and the Sacramento Bee in the1970s and early 80s before transitioning in-to fiction.

Publisher’s Weekly reviewed, “these shortpieces chronicle the often violent, some-times tender foibles of the denizens ofAmerica’s lower socioeconomic strata.”

As a journalist-turned-novelist, Dexterhas written on both sides of the coin: hisjournalism blends reporting with the shortstory, and his fiction reads as though it wereripped from the headlines of a newspaper.

Joining Dexter will be the editor of his lat-est release, Rob Fleder, an editor for SportsIllustrated and friend of Dexter’s. He willtalk sports and life and his fall SI releaseson basketball and the classic swimsuit edi-tions.

The non-fiction track for this year’s fes-tival includes a variety of topics; DanO’Brien, a Black Hills rancher, chronicleshis path as a cash-strapped cattle rancherwho converts to buffalo and in the processrestores a piece of the animal’s shatteredlegacy. He won the Outstanding Non-Fic-tion Book from the National Cowboy andWestern Heritage Center for Buffalo for theBroken Heart.

Photographer Rebecca Norris Webb, haspublished a series of photos taken with a

barrier between her and the subject in TheGlass Between Us. Her husband Alex Webb,a Magnum photographer, will join her. Hehas recently published photos of Istanbul.

Also, husband and wife teamBruce Junek and Tass Thackerhave published books about theirjourneys in foreign lands and ex-otic locales — trips they make ontwo wheels with their tent, jour-nal and camera in hand.

If you’re interested in seeingan author up close at her work,Minneapolis chef and cookbookauthor Lucia Watson, who spe-cializes in natural foods on the

northern plains, particularly fresh fish, willperform a cooking demonstration at theDeadwood Social Club.

In a look at telling difficult stories, LydiaWhirlwind Soldier and Terri Jentz will talkabout their feelings on social justice and thestill-unsolved murder attempt on Jentz andher college roommate as they traveled on across country bicycle trip in the 1970s.

Other National Interest authors include: • Jonathan Cohn’s journalistic look at the

nation’s healthcare system in Sick: The Un-told Story of the Nation’s Healthcare Crisis— and the People Who Pay the Price.

• Sasha Abramsky unearths the roots ofAmerica’s prison system in American Fu-ries: Crime, Punishment and Vengeance inthe Age of Mass Imprisonment.

• Marcia Mitchell, of Hill City, will dis-cuss the perils, politics, and possibilities ofrevealing secrets that others want to keephidden. She is the author of The Spy Who Se-duced America.

Creative essays and memoirs will be ad-dressed by Debra Marquart and Bill Holm.Marquart describes growing up in NorthDakota in her memoir, Horizontal Worlds;Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere. BillHolm writes about travel in China and hisbook The Dead Get By With Everything.

In The Deadbeat, Marilyn Johnson exam-ines obituary writing as an art and gives in-sight in to the file obituaries she wrote onPrincess Di, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.

Best Selling Sports Books

WHEN PEOPLE think of Sports

Illustrated, the weekly magazine

immediately comes to mind. Rob

Fleder, executive editor at SI, is

making people associate the

magazine with bestselling books.

Fleder, a Brown and Columbia

University graduate, has estab-

lished himself as a premiere edi-

tor in the publishing industry.

In 2007, Fleder continues the

Sports Illustrated’stradition of pro-

ducing best-selling coffee-table

books for the holiday season with

the The Basketball Book, a lavish

celebration of the athleticism and

pageantry of both the college and

professional game.

With the same kind of unfor-

gettable photographs and award-

winning writing that propelled

TheBaseball Book, The Football

Bookand TheAnniversaryBookto

TheNewYorkTimesbest-seller list

over the past three years, this vol-

ume brings to life the legendary

players, the classic action and the

great rivalries of the court. In 294

oversized pages, TheBasketball

Book commemorates the epic

teams and characters, the per-

sonalities and performances and

artifacts that have created le-

gions of passionate fans since Dr.

James Naismith nailed up a peach

basket and devised the Original

13 Rules of the game more than

100 years ago.

At the Festival, Fleder will

share insights on how he has been

associated with bestselling non-

fiction titles, as well as how mag-

azine writers can successfully

break into the book world.

Dexter Back in Deadwood


SONIA MANZANO HAS taught andentertained two generations of

children as Maria on Sesame Street,and now she’s bringing “Maria” toDeadwood. Not only has Manzanobeen acting on Sesame Street since1970, but she also started writing forthe series in 1980. Since then she’swon 15 writing Emmy awards.

Manzano’s life is a whirlwind ofcreative pursuits. She also performedon the New York Stage and is a part-ner in a company that makes LatinAmerican styled house ware prod-ucts. Her f irst book, No Dogs Al-lowed! has been turned into a fami-ly musical, and she just recently pub-lished her second children’s book, ABox Full of Kittens.

Although Manzano enjoys writingfor Sesame Street, she felt she hadmore to share with children throughher writing. “Sesame Street giveswriters a very specific curriculum toaddress. Then research makes sureviewers grasp the information we in-tended. I’m free of those restraintswhen writing my own books,” saysManzano, who began writing afterraising some questions aboutSesame Streets’Hispanic content.

Manzano’s childhood experiencesgrowing up in the South Bronx pro-vided rich fodder for writing materi-al. She says both of her books were

inspired by real lifeexperiences. “As faras A Box Full of Kit-tens goes, I had anaunt who was soonto give birth and did-n’t have a phone. Mymother sent me to bewith her in case of anemergency. Well, inreality, nothing hap-pened. My unclecame home and theysent me home with aquarter and a pat on the head. But Ido remember the sense of power andusefulness that washed over me at thethought that I could “save the day”and be a hero,” says Manzano.

Joining Manzano in the Children’sLiterature track is Virginia DrivingHawk Sneve. A regular at the Festi-val, Sneve will be discussing herbook, Bad River Boys. She will joinillustrator Donald Montileaux to talkabout “Indian History for Kids.”

Ann Bausum will speak on hernewest children’s book, Our Coun-try’s First Ladies, which is a compan-ion to her book on our country’s pres-idents. Our Country’s First Ladiesincludes an introduction by First La-dy Laura Bush.

Pamela Smith Hill will speakabout collaborating with Carolyn

Conahan on telling children’s stories.Children’s illustrators Carolyn

Conahan, Don Montileaux, andWarren Hanson will appear on a pan-el discussion, “Picture This: Chil-dren’s Book Illustrations” In a sep-arate session, Hanson will talk abouthow he created his memorable char-acter “Peef.”

Jean Patrick will present SouthDakota Rocks. Patrick’s book, WhoCarved the Mountain, is her f ifthchildren’s book. Kristin DonnanStandard’s book, Bones Rock!:Everything You Need to Know to bea Paleontologist, is a hands-on guideto collecting, cleaning and studyingfossils. The book also gives inspir-ing true stories of kids who havemade great discoveries.

Maria, Live!

Saturday Interactive Exhibit

B U G ’ S E Y E V I E W

PUT ASIDE YOUR

arachnophobia and enter an

outdoor world of larger than

life models of insects, bees

and spiders. View their sleek

wings, heavy-duty armour and

highly sensitive detectors. Dis-

cover more information about the world of

creatures we consider either gross or scary.

Bring your kids to examine

the good, the bad and

the ugly!

Located in the Lead-

Deadwood Elemen-

tary School Gymnasi-

um, Saturday Sep-

tember 29th from 9

a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Theexhibit ishostedbyHOP–Hands-On

Partnership forScience,LiteratureandArt in

SouthDakota.

FESTIVAL GUIDELINESPlease abide by the followingguidelines to make this eventenjoyable for all involved. Nosoliciting or distribution of fly-ers, literature, etc., of any kindat any festival venue withoutprior consent. No videotapingor tape recording. Turn cellphones and pagers off duringpresentations. The S.D. Festi-val of Books, its sponsors orvenues, are not responsible forlost or stolen items.


SASHA ABRAMSKYsashaabramsky.com

Sasha Abramsky

is a Senior Fellow at

the Demos Founda-

tion. He has written

three books: Amer-

ican Furies: Crime,

Punishment, and

Vengeance in the

Age ofMass Impris-

onment, Hard Time

Blues and Conned.

(Sat. 10 a.m., Silverado; 2 p.m., Silverado).

LORI ARMSTRONGloriarmstrong.com

Lori Armstrong left the firearms indus-

try in 2000 to pursue her dream of writ-

ing crime fiction. She is the author of Hal-

lowed Ground, Blood Ties and Shallow

Grave. She lives in Rapid City, S.D. (Sat. 11

a.m., Masonic Temple Main floor; 2 p.m.,

Masonic Temple Main floor; 3 p.m., Ele-

mentary Lower Lunchroom).

ELLEN BAKERellenbakernovels.com

Ellen Baker grew up in Minnesota, Wis-

consin, Illinois and South Dakota. She

worked as a museum curator, and, most re-

cently, at an independent bookstore. Her

first novel, Keeping the House, was pub-

lished by Random House in July 2007. She

lives in Wisconsin. (Sat. 9 a.m., Librar y

Round Table Room; 1 p.m., Masonic Tem-

ple Main floor; 3 p.m., Elementary Upper

Library).

ANN BAUSUMannbausum.com

Ann Bausum writes

American history books

for children. Her books

include OurCountry’s

First Ladies, Freedom

Riders: John Lewis and

Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil

Rights Movement, Dragon Eggs and Di-

nosaurBones,OurCountry’sPresidentsand

WithCourageandCloth:Winning the Fight

for aWoman’s Right to Vote, which won a

Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. Her

latest book, Muckrakers, is out in Septem-

ber. (Sat. 9 a.m., Elementary Auditorium).

MICHELLE BLANKENSHIPMichelle Blankenship is the director of

publicity at Harcourt. Among the individ-

uals she has worked with is South Dakota

author Kent Meyers. (Sat. 10 a.m., Franklin

Hotel Emerald Room; 11 a.m., Pavilion

Board Room; 2 p.m., Franklin Hotel Emer-

ald Room).

ROBERT BONNERRober t E. Bonner is

professor emeritus of his-

tory from Carleton Col-

lege in Nor thfield, MN.

He has written articles for

several publications about

Buffalo Bill and currently

is completing a book-

length study of Buffalo Bill in Wyoming.

(Sat. 10 a.m., Masonic Temple Upstairs; 1

p.m., Masonic Temple Upstairs).

DANIEL JAMES BROWN danieljamesbrown.com

Daniel James Brown is the author of Un-

der a Flaming Sky: The

Great Hinckley Firestorm

of 1894. He taught writing

at San Jose State Univer-

sity and Stanford, and co-

authored two textbooks.

He lives near Redmond,

Wash. (Sat. 4 p.m., Ma-

sonic Temple Upstairs).

JONATHAN COHNJonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The

New Republic. He’s a senior fellow at

Demos and the author of Sick: TheUntold

Story ofAmerica’sHealthCareCrisis—and

the PeopleWho Pay the Price. He lives in

Ann Arbor, Mich. (Sat. 1 p.m., Elementary

Upper Library).

CAROLYN DIGBY CONAHANcarolyndigbyconahan.com

Carolyn Digby Conahan illustrated L.

Frank Baum’s TheDiscontentedGopher.

She is a staff artist for Cricket magazine,

as well as author and illustrator of The

Twelve Days of

Christmas Dogs.

She lives in Port-

land, Ore. (Fri. 7-

10 p.m., Golden

Hills Resort; Sat.

3 p.m., Elemen-

tary Auditorium;

4 p.m., Elemen-

tary Auditorium).


EMILY COOKCook is the marketing and publicity

manager at Milkweed Editions. She has

ser ved as ad program director for the

Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair

and ran a literar y outreach program in

Chicago Public Schools. (Sat. 9 a.m.,

Franklin Hotel Emerald Room.

KENNETH C.DAVISdontknowmuch.com

Kenneth Davis is the

author of the bestselling

Don’t KnowMuchAbout

series featuring the

Bible, the Civil War, his-

tor y, geography and

“any thing.” He lives in

New York. (Sat. 9 a.m.,

Masonic Temple Upstairs).

PETE DEXTERPete Dexter is the author of Paris Trout,

which won the 1988 National Book Award.

In 2007, he released a collection of non-

fiction pieces entitled PaperTrails:TrueSto-

ries of Confusion,Mindless Violence, and

ForbiddenDesires,ASurprisingNumber of

WhichareNotAboutMarriage. Dexter at-

tended college at the University of South

Dakota and now lives in Washington. (Fri.

7-10 p.m., Golden Hills Resort; Sat. 10 a.m.,

Elementary Upper Library; 1 p.m., Dead-

wood Public Library Downstairs; 8 p.m.,

Masonic Temple, Main floor).

IVAN DOIG ivandoig.com

Ivan Doig was

born in White Sul-

phur, MT, along the

Rocky Mountain

Front, where much

of his writing takes

place. He has au-

thored 10 books in-

cluding This House

of Sky, a finalist for

the National Book Award, and his latest,

TheWhistlingSeason, was selected as “One

Book South Dakota” in 2007. Doig, a for-

mer ranch hand, a Ph.D. in history, news-

paperman and magazine editor, lives in

Seattle, Wash. (Fri. 5:30-6:30 p.m., Gold-

en Hills Resort; 7-10 p.m., Golden Hills Re-

sort; Sat. 10 a.m., Masonic Temple, Main

floor).


KRISTIN DONNAN STANDARDrex_appeal.com

Kristin Donnan co-authored Rex Ap-

peal and the children’s book Bones Rock.

She lives in Hill City, S.D. (Fri. 7 p.m., Gold-

en Hill Resort; Sat. 9 a.m., Pavilion Board

Room; 2 p.m., Elementary Lower Lunch-

room; 3 p.m., Silverado).

CATHIE DRAINECathie Draine edited the letters of her

grandfather, George Philip in the book

Cowboy Life: The Let-

ters ofGeorge Philip.

Draine is a member

of the South Dakota

State University Co-

operative Extension

Master Gardeners

and the Garden Writ-

ers’ Association. She

lives, writes and gar-

dens in Black Hawk,

SD. (Sat. 11 a.m., Masonic Temple, Up-

stairs).

VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE

Virginia Driving Hawk

Sneve is the author of chil-

dren’s books, short stories,

poems and essays about

American Indian history

and life, including The

Tricksterand theTroll,Com-

pleting theCircle and TheBad River Boys.

She has received the National Humanities

Medal and the South Dakota Governor’s

Award for the Arts. She lives in Rapid City,

S.D. (Sat. 11 a.m., Elementary Auditorium;

Sun 9-11 a.m., Tatanka).

DEBRA MAGPIE EARLINGDebra Magpie Earling is the author of

PermaRed, which received the Western

Writers Association Spur Award, the

American Book Award and was chosen by

Barnes & Noble as par t of its Discover

Great New Writers series. She is an asso-

ciate professor of English at the Universi-

ty of Montana. (Sat.10 a.m., Elementary

Lower Lunchroom; 3 p.m., Franklin Hotel

Emerald Room).

DAVID ALLAN EVANSSouth Dakota Poet Laureate David Al-

lan Evans has authored six books of poet-

ry and three books of essays, including The

BullRider’sAdviceand

HangingOut with the

Crows.He is professor

emeritus of English at

South Dakota State

University and lives in

Sioux Falls, S.D. (Sat.

2 p.m.,Deadwood

Public Librar y Up-

stairs; 6:30 p.m., Ma-

sonic Temple,Main floor).

ROB FLEDERRob Fleder has been

an editor at Sports Illus-

trated for two decades.

His most recent books

are Sports Illustrated:

TheBasketball Bookand

SI: Swimsuit Edition. He

edited SI: 50Years, The

AnniversaryBook, SI:50

Years of Great Writing

1954-2004;SI:GreatBaseballWriting;and

SI:GreatFootballWritingand HotShots: 21st

Century Sports Photography. He also se-

lected and edited Pete Dexter’s non-fic-

tion collection. (Fri. 7 p.m., Golden Hills

Resort; Sat. 10 a.m., Elementary Upper Li-

brary; 1 p.m., Deadwood Public Library

Downstairs).

RICHARD FORDAfter a brief enrollment in law school,

Richard Ford began writing fiction. His

books include the best-

selling trilogy TheSports-

writer, IndependenceDay,

and The Lay of the Land,

released in paperback

this September. For Inde-

pendenceDay, Ford re-

ceived both a PEN/

Faulkner Award and the

Pulitzer Prize for fiction,

making him the first writer to win both

awards for a single work. (Sat. 8 p.m., Ma-

sonic Temple, Main floor).

GREG GAGNONGreg Gagnon is an associate professor

in Indian Studies at the University of North

Dakota. He and his wife Ellen offer Indians

in Children’s Literature courses. Gagnon

is an enrolled citizen of the Bad River Band

of Lake Superior Chippewa. (Sat. 9 a.m.,

Deadwood Public Library Downstairs).


TIM GIAGOTim Giago, an

Oglala Lakota, has

played a vital role in

the establishment of

the Native American

Journalists Founda-

tion, Indian Education

TodayMagazine, Lako-

ta Timesand IndianCountry Today. He cur-

rently writes a weekly column distributed

by McClatchy News Service and is the au-

thor of ChildrenLeftBehind, theDarkLega-

cy of the IndianMissions, which won the

Bronze Star at the Independent Publish-

ers Awards. (Sat. 11 a.m., Elementary Up-

per Library; Sun. 9-11 a.m., Tatanka).

MARIO GONZALEZMario Gonzalez practices law in Rapid

City, SD. He is an enrolled member of the

Oglala Sioux Tribe and represents tribes

in South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Ok-

lahoma, Utah, Michigan, Nevada and

Washington in trust funds/assets cases. He

is also General Counsel for the Oglala

Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He is the au-

thor of The Politics of HallowedGround:

Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian

Sovereignty. Gonzalez has won the Out-

standing Defender of Native American

People Award and the Distinguished Abo-

riginal Lawyer Achievement Award. (Sat.

1 p.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Parish).

NYLA GRIFFITHnylagriffith.com

Nyla Griffith resides in Deadwood, SD,

and just released her debut novel, Lucky

Strike. She is married to Tom Griffith, and

they own TDG Communications. She has

contributed many non-fiction pieces to

Deadwood Magazine. (Fri. 7-10 p.m.,

Golden Hills Resort; Sat. 11 a.m., Mason-

ic Temple, Main floor; 3 p.m., Elementary

Upper Library).

KAREN HALLA graduate of the South Dakota School

of Mines and Technology, Karen Hall is a

writer and environmental engineer living

in Rapid City, S.D. Her first novel, Unrea-

sonable Risk, was

published in 2006.

She is currently

working on a se-

quel to Unreason-

ableRiskand a nov-

el about infertility.

(Sat. 11 a.m., Ma-

sonic Temple, Main

floor; 2 p.m., Masonic Temple, Main floor).

WARREN HANSON warrenhanson.com

An artist, writer, de-

signer, speaker and

musician, Warren

Hanson is the illustra-

tor for author Tom

Hegg’s classic, ACup

of Christmas Tea, the

sequel A Memory of

Christmas Tea, and il-

lustrated four books about a bear named

PEEF. He has written several books includ-

ing TheNextPlace,OlderLoveand most re-

cently, GrandpaHas aGreat Big Face. He


lives in St. Paul, MN and the Black Hills.

(Sat. 9 a.m., Silverado; 1 p.m., Elementary

Auditorium; 3 p.m., Deadwood Public Li-

brary Round Table Room; 4 p.m., Elemen-

tary Auditorium).

ANDREW HELFERAndrew Helfer writes graphic biogra-

phies. He has written one on Malcom X

and one on President Ronald Reagan, re-

leased in 2007. He is completing his Jan-

uary 2008 release of a graphic biography

on J. Edgar Hoover. He edited the first

graphic novel, Road toPerdition. (Sat. 11

a.m., Deadwood Public Library Down-

stairs; 2 p.m., Pavilion Board Room).

PATRICK HICKSPatrick Hicks, asso-

ciate professor of Eng-

lish at Augustana Col-

lege in Sioux Falls, S.D.,

is an advisory editor for

New Hibernia Review

and the author of Trav-

eling through History,

Draglines, TheKiss that SavedMy Life and

Finding theGossamer. He has been nomi-

nated three times for the Pushcart Prize.

(Sat. 2 p.m., Deadwood Public Librar y

Round Table Room; 4 p.m., Deadwood

Public Library Upstairs).

PAMELA SMITH HILLpamelasmithhill.com

In 1994, Pamela Smith Hill left the cor-

porate world behind

and star ted writing

books for young

adults. They include

GhostHorses,TheLast

Grail Keeper and A

Voice from theBorder,

and the just released

Laura Ingallss Wilder:

A Writer ’s Life. She

lives in Portland, OR.

(Sat. 11 a.m., Masonic Temple Upstairs; 2

p.m., Elementary Auditorium; 3 p.m., Ele-

mentary Auditorium).

BILL HOLMbillholm.com

Bill Holm is the au-

thor of essays and po-

etr y in books that in-

clude Coming Home

Crazy: AnAlphabet of

ChinaEssays,Eccentric Islands: TravelReal

and Imaginary and The DeadGet By with

Everything, all published by Milkweed. A

winner of the Minnesota Book Award,

Holm teaches at Southwest State Univer-

sity and spends his summers in Iceland.

(Sat. 11 a.m., Elementary Lower Lunch-

room; 1 p.m., Deadwood Public Library Up-

stairs; 6:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, Main

floor).

BERNIE HUNHOFFsouthdakotamagazine.com

Bernie Hunhoff 's latest book, South

DakotaCuriosities, is a collection of short

essays and travel tips that

help readers understand

South Dakota and enjoy

their travels in the state.

Hunhoff is the editor and

publisher of SouthDakota

Magazine.He and his wife,

Myrna, live on a farm near

Yankton. They have two

adult children and a new

granddaughter, Laura. (Sat. 11 a.m.,

Franklin Hotel, Emerad Room).

CRAIG HOWECraig Howe is a Lakota scholar, mem-

ber of the graduate program faculty at

Oglala Lakota College and the author of

several magazine articles, book reviews

and the book Hate Speech, Horses and

Hostages: TheUntold Story ofLewis&Clark

in Teton Territory.He also was an editor of

the Oak Lake Writers’ Society book This

Stretch of the River. (Sat. 10 a.m., St. Am-

brose Catholic Parish).

TERRI JENTZstrangepieceofparadise.com

Terri Jentz grew up on the Dakota

prairies before moving east to the Chica-

go suburbs, then further

east to attend Yale Univer-

sity. She is currently a

screenwriter in Los Ange-

les and works with Equal-

ity Now. In 1977, she was a

victim of an attack and

wrote about her experi-

ence in her first book,

StrangePieceof Paradise:

AReturn to theAmericanWest to Investigate

MyAttemptedMurder—AndSolve theMys-

tery ofMyself. Jentz was an Edgar, NBCC

and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Final-


ist in 2006.(Sat. 9 a.m. Elementary Low-

er Lunchroom; 2 p.m., Silverado; 8 p.m.,


CRAIG JOHNSON craigallenjohnson.com

Craig Johnson’s background in educa-

tion and law enforcement gives his writing

a unique perspective. He

is the author of TheCold

Dish and Death Without

Company,which was a fi-

nalist for the Mountains

and Plains Bookseller ’s

Association’s Fiction Book

of the Year and was the

Wyoming Historical Society’s Fiction Book

of the Year. He lives on a ranch near

Ucross, Wyo. (Sat. 11 a.m., Deadwood Pub-

lic Library Round Table Room; 3 p.m., El-

ementary Lower Lunchroom; 4 p.m., Ma-

sonic Temple, Main floor).

MARILYN JOHNSONmarilynjohnson.net

Marilyn Johnson, author of TheDead

Beat:LostSouls, LuckyStiffs and thePerverse

Pleasures ofObituaries,

has been a staff writer

for Life and an editor at

Esquire, Redbook and

Outside. Johnson has

written obituaries for

Princess Diana, Jacque-

line Onassis, Katherine

Hepburn, Johnny Cash,

Bob Hope and Marlon

Brando. (Sat. 11 a.m., Sil-

verado; 1 p.m., Deadwood Public Library

Downstairs; 3 p.m., Franklin Hotel Emer-

ald Room).

BRUCE JUNEK & TASS THACKER imagesoftheworld.com

Black Hills natives Bruce Junek and Tass

Thacker have spent more than 30 years

bicycling and

exploring the

world. The cou-

ple has self-

published three

books: TheRoad

of Dream, An-

des to theAma-

zon and Spearfish Canyon Limestone. In

2005 they bicycled through Egypt, Jor-

dan, Greece and Turkey, and blogged their

journal. (Sat. 4 p.m., Deadwood PublicLi-

brary Downstairs).

KATRINA KITTLEkatrinakittle.com

Katrina Kittle has

lived in the Day ton,

Ohio, area for most of

her life and currently

teaches 6th and 7th

grade English. She is the

author of Traveling Light

and Two Truths and a Lie. Her third novel,

TheKindnessof Strangers, was selected as

a BookSense pick, won a Great Lakes

Book Award and is a finalist for the

Ohioana Book Award. (Sat. 9 a.m. and 1

p.m., Masonic Temple, Main floor).

TED KOOSERtedkooser.com

Former United States

Poet Laureate Ted Koos-

er was born in Iowa and

now lives near Lincoln,

Neb. While working in

the insurance industry, he

wrote poems published in

magazines before turn-

ing to writing and teach-

ing poetry full time. His latest release is

Blizzard Voices. Kooser has won the

Pulitzer Prize (2005), two fellowships

from the National Endowment for the Arts

and the Pushcart Prize. (Sat. 6:30 p.m.,


MARY KOPCOMary Kopco, director of the Adams Mu-

seum and House in Deadwood, recently

released The Adams House Revealed, a

book that takes an in-depth look at the his-

toric home. (Sat. 3 p.m., Masonic Temple,

Upstairs).

NANCY TYSTAD KOUPALTystad Koupal is the director of the

South Dakota State Historical Society

Press. She edited Baum’s Road toOz: The

DakotaYearsand FindingLewis&Clark:Old

Trails,NewDirections. (Sat. 9 a.m., Franklin

Hotel Emerald Room., 11 a.m., Elementary

lower room).

DAVID LASKINA weather enthusiast, David Laskin is

the author of TheChildren’s Blizzard: Jan-

uary 1888, which won the 2005 Washing-


ton State Book Award.

Laskin also wrote Brav-

ing the Elements: The

StormyHistory ofAmer-

ican Weather and is at

work on a book about

SD Germans and WWI.

He lives in Seattle,

Wash. (Fri. 7-10 p.m.,

Golden Hills Resort; Sat. 2 p.m., Masonic

Temple Upstairs).

JAMIE LEEjamieleeonline.com

Jamie Lee is the author of Washaka:The

BearDreamer, a story based on a dream

had by a Lakota man, Leon Hale. She won

an Independent Publish-

ers Award in 2007. She

and her husband Milt, op-

erate Many Kites Press.

They live in Rapid City,

S.D. (Sat. 9 a.m., Franklin

Hotel Emerald Room; 2

p.m., Masonic Temple

Main floor).

LANNIKO LEELee grew up along the Missouri River in

South Dakota. She received her baccalau-

reate degree from Ar-

cadia University and a

Masters in English from

Middlebury College.

She has published book

reviews, articles, essays

and poetr y. Recently

she contributed to the

book This Stretch of the

River: Lakota,Dakota andNakotaRespons-

es to theLewis andClarkExpedition andBi-

centennial. (Sat. 10 a.m., St. Ambrose

CatholicParish; Sun. 9-11 a.m., Tatanka).

SONIA MANZANO soniamanzano.com

Sonia Manzano is a first-generation

American of Latino descent who has af-

fected the lives of millions in her role as

“Maria” on Sesame Street. She also wrote

for the show and has won 15 Emmy Awards.

Manzano has performed in theater pro-

ductions and written children’s books. She

wrote NoDogsAl-

lowed,and in June

2007, she re-

leased ABox Full

of Kittens. She is

currently writing

a memoir. (Fri. 7-

10 p.m., Golden

Hills Resort; Sat.

8 p.m., Masonic Temple, Main floor).

DEBRA MARQUART debramarquart.com

Debra Marquart teaches at Iowa State

University. Her collection of short stories,

TheHungerBone:Rock&Roll Storiesdraws

from her experiences as a female road mu-

sician in the 1970s.

She continues to per-

form with The Bone

People, with whom

she has released two

CDs. She is the au-

thor of two poetr y

collections, Every-

thing’s a Verb and


FromSweetness. Her memoir, TheHorizon-

talWorld:GrowingUpWild in theMiddle of

Nowhere, was published in 2006. (Fri. 7-

10 p.m., Golden Hills Resort; Sat. 10 a.m.,

Deadwood Public Library Upstairs; 11 a.m.,

Elementary Lower Lunchroom; 3 p.m.,

Franklin Hotel, Emerald Room).

JOSEPH MARSHALL IIIthunderdreamers.com

Joseph Marshall III, a member of the

Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is the author of six

books. TheLakotaWay: StoriesandLessons

for Livingwas a finalist for the PEN Center

USA award. His most recent work is Thun-

der Dreamer: The

Journey of Crazy

Horse. Marshall has

also appeared and

consulted on TNT’s

“Into the West” as

well as “The Real

West,” a syndicated

program on The His-

tory Channel. (Fri. 7-10 p.m., Golden Hills

Resort; Sat. 11 a.m., St. Ambrose Catholic

Parish; 1 p.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Parish;

Sun. 9-11 a.m., Tatanka).

KENT MEYERSKent Meyers, an English professor and

writer-in-residence at Black Hills State

University in Spearfish, S.D., writes fiction

and non-fiction. His

novel The Work of

Wolves won the

Mountain and Plains

Booksellers Award,

a Minnesota Book

Award and was cho-

sen as “One Book

SD” in 2005. Mey-

ers’ other books are

TheRiverWarren, The

WitnessofCombines, and Light in theCross-

ing. (Sat. 10 a.m., Masonic Temple,Main

floor; 2 p.m., Masonic Temple, Main floor).

MARCIA MITCHELLMarcia Mitchell is the co-author of The

Spy Who Seduced America, which was

named the Counterintelligence Book of

the Year in 2002. She is the former Sec-

retar y of Labor for the State of South

Dakota and has published three other non-

fiction books. (Sat. 9 a.m., Elementary Up-

per Library; 3 p.m. Silverado).

DONALD MONTILEAUXmontileaux.com

Don Montileaux has illustrated the cov-

ers of six books and the pages of the chil-

dren’s book Tatankaand theLakotaPeople:

A Creation Story .

Montileaux, an en-

rolled member of

the Oglala Lakota

tribe, was an intern

under noted artist

Oscar Howe at the

University of South

Dakota. (Sat. 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., Elemen-

tary Auditorium; Sun. 9-11 .m., Tatanka).

PAULA NELSONPaula Nelson is associate professor of

history at the University of Wisconsin, Plat-

teville, and author of works about western

South Dakota. She is author of After the

West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town

Builders in Western

South Dakota. She

wrote the introduc-

tions for Sunset to

Sunset:ALifetimewith

My Brothers, the

Dakotasand Sunshine

Always:TheCourtship

Letters ofAliceBower

and JosephGossageof

Dakota Territory. (Sat.

9 a.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Parish; 11

a.m., Masonic Temple Upstairs).

DAN O’BRIENDan O’Brien, a writer and buffalo ranch-

er, is the author of numerous books of fic-

tion and nonfiction about the West, includ-

ing Buffalo for the

BrokenHeart. He has

worked as an endan-

gered-species biol-

ogist and English

teacher, and lives in

Whitewood, S.D.

(Sat. 2 p.m., Mason-

ic Temple Main

floor ; 4 p.m., Ele-

mentary Upper Library).

JEAN PATRICKjeanpatrick.com

Jean Patrick writes non-fiction books

for children. Her most recent book is Who

Carved theMountain. She is the author of


four other books for kids and lives in

Mitchell, S.D. (Sat. 10 a.m., Elementary

Auditorium).

SUSAN POWERSusan Power is a writer and poet and a

member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

She received degrees from Harvard/Rad-

cliffe and Harvard Law School, and attend-

ed the Iowa Writers

Workshop. Power is

the author of The

GrassDancer,which

won the PEN/Hem-

ingway Award in

1995 and a short sto-

ry and essay collec-

tion TheRoofwalker.

(Fri. 7-10 p.m., Gold-

en Hills Resort; Sat.

11 a.m., St. Ambrose

Catholic Parish; 2 p.m., Deadwood Public

Library Downstairs).

JIM REESEJim Reese is assistant professor of Eng-

lish, director of the Plains Writers’ Tour and

editor of Paddlefish LiteraryMagazine at

Mount Mar ty Col-

lege in Yankton, S.D.

He is co-founder of

Logan House Press

and the author of

WeddingCakeandFu-

neral Ham, The Jive

and These Trespasses,

which is his most re-

cent collection which

includes Pushcar t

Prize nominated po-

ems. (Sat. 9 a.m., Franklin Hotel Emerald

Room; 11 a.m., Deadwood Public Library

Upstairs).

DAVID ROMTVEDTDavid Romtvedt, Wyoming’s Poet Lau-

reate, is the author of nine books of poet-

ry and prose, including AFlowerWhose

Name I DoNot Know, which won the Na-

tional Poetry Series Award. He is also a

member of the musical group The Fireants

and teaches at the University of Wyoming.

(Fri. 7-10 p.m., Golden Hills Resort; Sat. 9

a.m., Deadwood Public Library Upstairs;

4 p.m., Elementary Lower Lunchroom;

6:30 p.m., Masonic Temple, Main floor).

THRITY UMRIGARumrigar.com

Thrity Umrigar is the author of the nov-

els TheSpaceBetweenUsand BombayTime

and the memoir First

Darling of theMorn-

ing. A long-time jour-

nalist, she now teach-

es creative writing at

Case Western Re-

serve University. She

lives in Ohio. (Sat. 9

a.m., Masonic Tem-

ple Main floor; 1 p.m.,

Deadwood Public Li-

brar y Round Table

Room; 2 p.m., Deadwood Public Library

Downstairs).

EDWARD VALANDRABorn and raised on the Great Sioux


Reservation, Edward Valandra is a Sican-

gu Lakota with interests in tribal and pub-

lic law and politics. He is the author of Not

WithoutOurConsentand an assistant pro-

fessor in American Indian Studies at UC-

Davis. (Fri. 7-10 p.m., Golden Hills Resort;

Sun. 9-11 a.m., Tatanka).

JAY VOGT & STEPHEN ROGERS

Jay Vogt and Stephen Rogers co-au-

thored Picturing the Past: South Dakota’s

HistoricPlaces.

Vogt is director

of the South

Dakota State

Historical So-

ciety and is the

State Historic

Preservation Officer. Rogers is historic

preservation coordinator with the South

Dakota State Historical Society. (Sat. 3

p.m., Masonic Temple, Upstairs).

SPRING WARRENDebut novelist and Wyoming native

Spring Warren is a long-time painter and

furniture maker

who lives in Davis,

Calif., with her hus-

band, historian

Louis Warren, and

their two sons. She

is the author of Tur-

pentine. (Sat. 10

a.m., Deadwood

Public Librar y

Round Table Room;

1 p.m., Franklin Hotel Emerald Room; 3

p.m., Elementary Upper Library).

LOUIS WARRENLouis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine

Jackson Professor of Western U.S. Histo-

ry at the UC Davis. He is the author of Buf-

faloBill’sAmericaandTheHunter’sGame:

PoachersandConservationists in Twentieth-

Century America,

which won the West-

ern Heritage Award

for Outstanding

Nonfiction Book,

awarded by the Na-

tional Cowboy Hall

of Fame and West-

ern Heritage Cen-

ter. (Sat. 10 a.m.,

Masonic Temple

Upstairs; 1 p.m., Franklin Hotel Emerald

Room).

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB & ALEX WEBBtheglassbetweenus.com

Rebecca Norris Webb, originally a po-

et and journalist, began photography in

1988. Her photo-

graphs appear in

the book TheGlass

between Us. She

lives in Brooklyn

and teaches pho-

tography around

the world with her

husband, Alex

Webb. He is a Magnum photographer and

just released the book Istanbul: City of a

Hundred Names. (Sat. 10 a.m., Pavilion

Board Room; 1 p.m., Silverado).

LYDIA WHIRLWIND SOLDIERLydia Whirlwind Soldier is a Sicangu

Lakota born in Bad Nation on the Rosebud

reservation. An enrolled member of the

Rosebud Sioux Tribe, she worked in edu-

cation for 30 years and is a poet, non-fic-

tion writer, business owner and recognized

craftswoman. Her collection of poems,

MemorySongs,was published in 1999, and

she contributed to This Stretchof theRiver.

(Sat. 10 a.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Parish;

11 a.m., Elementary Upper Library; 3 p.m.,

Deadwood Public Library Upstairs).

LUCIA WATSONlucias.com

Chef Lucia Watson is the proprietor of

Lucia’s Restaurant, located in Minneapo-

lis, MN. She is the co-

author of Savoring the

Seasons of theNorthern

Heartland, a “Christmas

Pick” by the New York

Times and author of In-

Fisherman Presents:

CookingFreshwaterFish.

Watson’s recipes have

been featured in re-

gional and national

magazines. Recently, the Institute for Agri-

culture and Trade Policy honored her with

a Commitment to Community Award for

her work with local farmers and youth. She

lives in Minneapolis and spends time in

Brittany, France. (Sat.12-1 p.m., Deadwood

Social Club).

SPECIAL EVENTS


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

SPECIAL EVENT11 a.m. – 12 p.m.Pavilion Board Room — Live Broadcastof SD Public Radio’s “Food for Thought”program.

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.Pavilion — Opening of Exhibitor’s Hall.Pavilion On Stage — “Readings from Onthe Homefront: South Dakota Stories” —Charles Woodard, editor, and contributors.Includes the screening of “The Making ofTHE WAR,” a film by Ken Burns and LynnNovick.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.Pavilion On Stage — Open Mic for anyauthors — Register at sdhumanities.org.

2 p.m. – 4 p.m.Pavilion — “Welcome to the Festival ofBooks Reception & Early Bird Mass BookSigning” — Featuring Live Music andDoor Prizes. Sponsored by RBC DainRauscher.

5:30 – 6:30 PMSPECIAL EVENTGolden Hills Resort (Lead) — “OneBook South Dakota” Reception and MassBook Signing. Sponsored by Bill Walsh’sDakota Travel.

7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.Golden Hills Resort (Lead) — LiteraryFeast featuring 12 authors (see separate sto-ry). Ticketed Event — Tickets are $20/per-

son. Sponsored by Rapid City Journal andNorthwestern Engineering Company.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.Deadwood Pavilion — Exhibitors HallOpen.

9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.CHILDREN/YA Elementary Gym — “Bug’s Eye View”HOP Exhibit Opens.

9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.CHILDREN/YA Elementary Auditorium — “FirstLadies,” Ann Bausum.FICTION Masonic Temple Main floor — “TheBonds of Women,” Katrina Kittle, ThrityUmrigar.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS St.Ambrose Catholic Parish — “Ro-mance of History,” Paula Nelson.Masonic Temple Upstairs — “Knowl-edge Bowl,” Ken Davis.NON-FICTIONElementary Upper Library — “Writingin a Non-Fiction World of Smoke and Mir-rors,” Marcia Mitchell.Elementary Lower Lunchroom —“Telling Difficult Stories,” Terri Jentz.WRITERS’SUPPORTSilverado — “Creating Picture Books forAdults and Children,” Warren Hanson.POETRY Deadwood Public Library Upstairs —

“How Many Horses and Other Poems,”David Romtvedt.WRITERS’SUPPORT Franklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Small Press Publishing — Perils and Pit-falls,” Milt and Jamie Lee, Jim Reese.Deadwood Public Library Downstairs— “Selecting Tribal Literature,” GregoryGagnon.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGDeadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — Ellen Baker,debut novelist.Pavilion Board Room — Ask an Author— Kristin Donnan Standard, magazines,newspapers and books.

10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.CHILDREN/YA Elementary Auditorium — “South Dako-ta Rocks,” Jean Patrick.FICTION Elementary Lower Lunchroom — “Per-ma Red,” Debra Magpie Earling.Masonic Temple Main floor — “Perspec-tives on The Whistling Season: 2007 OneBook SD,” Ivan Doig, Kent Meyers.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS St.Ambrose Catholic Parish — “TribalResponses — This Stretch of the River,”Lydia Whirlwind Soldier, Craig Howe,Lanniko Lee.NON-FICTION Silverado — “Understanding America inthe Era of Mass Incarceration,” SashaAbramsky.

RECEPTION WITH PETE DEXTER,

ROB FLEDER & MARILYN JOHNSON

Thursday at 7 p.m. Tickets Required.

Join us on Thursday, September 27 at a recep-

tion with Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder, and Marilyn

Johnson at the Canyon Lake Chop House lo-

cated at 2720 Chapel Lane in Rapid City. The

evening will feature a presentation by three

great authors who have been life-long friends

and professionally linked at several magazines

and through book collaborations. Tickets for

this event are $15. Books will be available.

TICKETS REQUIRED

The public is invited to purchase

tickets for the following special

events at the Festival of Books.

Purchase your tickets in advance

from the Deadwood Public Li-

brary (605) 578-2821; Adams

Museum (605) 578-1714; Black

Hills Central Reservations (866)

601-5103; or SDHC (605)

688-6113. Remaining tickets will

be sold prior to the event at the

Festival Information Booth in Ex-

hibitors’ Hall located at Dead-

wood Pavilion and at the door.

LUNCH WITH CHEF LUCIA

Saturday at noon. Tickets Required.

Minneapolis chef and author Lucia Watson will

demonstrate cooking tips and prepare a fabu-

lous dish at a luncheon for Festival of Books at-

tendees on Saturday, September 29 at noon.

The lunch will be held at the Deadwood Social

Club, located above the famed Saloon # 10 on

Deadwood’s Main Street. Tickets for this event

are $15. Books will be available.

Contact the Rapid City Public Library at 605-394-4171.


HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS Masonic Temple Upstairs — “TheMythologies of Buffalo Bill,” Robert Bon-ner, Louis Warren.NON-FICTION Elementary Upper Library — “PaperTrails,” Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder.POETRY Deadwood Public Library Upstairs —“Everything’s A Verb,” Deb Marquart.WRITERS’SUPPORT Franklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Mar-keting & Publicizing Your Book,” MichelleBlankenship, Emily Cook.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGPavilion Board Room — Ask the Photog-raphers — “The Photo Book: Exploring theWorld with a Camera,” Rebecca NorrisWebb and Alex Webb.Deadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — Spring Warren,novelist.

11 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.CHILDREN/YA Elementary School Auditorium — “Indi-an History for Kids,” Virginia DrivingHawk Sneve, Don Montileaux.FICTIONMasonic Temple Main floor — “Womenof Mystery,” Lori Armstrong, Nyla Grif-fith, Karen Hall.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERSSt.Ambrose Catholic Parish — “PassingAlong the Stories,” Joseph Marshall III andSusan Power.NON-FICTION Elementary School Lower Lunchroom— “Essays & Prose,” Bill Holm, Deb Mar-quart.Silverado — “The Wild World of Obituar-ies,” Marilyn Johnson.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERSMasonic Temple Main floor — “Life onthe Prairie and in the Hills,” Pamela SmithHill, Paula Nelson, Cathie Draine.Elementary Upper Library — “ChildrenLeft Behind,” Tim Giago, Lydia WhirlwindSoldier.POETRY Deadwood Public Library Upstairs —“These Trespasses,” Jim Reese.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERSDeadwood Public Library Downstairs —

SPECIAL EVENTLiterary FeastTickets Required

Friday Night at 7 p.m.

FEATURING:Kenneth C. Davis — Literary RefereeRob Fleder —Book editor for many bestsellingSports Illustrated coffee table books, includingthe most recent, Sports Illustrated: The Basket-ball BookCarolyn Conahan — Children’s illustrator ofThe Discontented GopherSonia Manzano — Best known as Maria fromSesame street and author of A Boxful of Kittens Ivan Doig — Author of the 2007 One BookSouth Dakota novel The Whistling Season Susan Power — Author of the short story col-lection Roofwalker and winner of the PenFaulkner PrizeNyla Griffith — Author of Lucky Strike, an his-torical novel set in DeadwoodJoseph Marshall III — Author of Day the WorldEnded at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History andactor, consultant and narrator of TNT’s award-winning miniseries Into the WestDavid Laskin — author of The Children’s Bliz-zard, an historical account of the 1888 blizzard Pete Dexter — Winner of the National BookAward and author of the recent collection of hisessays and newspaper columns, Paper Trails:True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a SurprisingNumber of Which Are Not about MarriageCathie Draine — journalist and editor for hergrandfather’s book The Cowboy Life: The Lettersof George Philip, a collection of his letters David Romtvedt — co-host, musical performer, poet laureate of Wyoming, and authorof Some Church: Poems Deb Marquart — co-host, musical performer,poet and memoirist of The Horizontal World:Growing up in the Middle of Nowhere

Tickets for this event are $15.

“Graphic Biographies: From Malcom X toRonald Reagan,” Andrew Helfer.WRITERS’SUPPORT Franklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Non-Fiction Publishing 101,” Bernie Hunhoff,Nancy Tystad Koupal.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGPavilion Board Room — Ask a Publisher— “Exploring Book Ideas,” MichelleBlankenship.Deadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — Craig Johnson,mystery writer.

12 p.m. – 1 p.m.LUNCH BREAK — Concessions in Pavilion.SPECIAL EVENTDeadwood Pavilion, On Stage — Open Mic for any authors — Register at

sdhumanities.org.Deadwood Social Club — CookingDemonstration & Lunch with Lucia Watson — Ticketed Event.

1 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.CHILDREN/YA Lead Elementary Auditorium — “Creat-ing PEEF: Making a Memorable Charac-ter,” Warren Hanson.FICTIONMasonic Temple Main floor — “No PlaceLike Home,” Ellen Baker, Katrina Kittle.NON-FICTIONSilverado — “The Glass between Us SlideShow,” Rebecca Norris Webb, Alex Webb.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERSMasonic Temple Upstairs — “WesternBiography: From Calamity Jane to CrazyHorse,” Robert Bonner.

NON-FICTIONElementary Upper Library — “Sick:The Untold Story of America’s HealthCare Crisis,” Jonathan Cohn.POETRYDeadwood Public Library Upstairs —“The Heart Can be Filled Anywhere onEarth,” Bill Holm.WRITERS’SUPPORTDeadwood Public Library Downstairs— “Where Journalism Leads you in theBook World,” Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder,Marilyn Johnson.Franklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Truth& Fiction — Writing through History’sLens,” Louis and Spring Warren. WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGPavilion Board Room — Ask a Publisher— “Exploring Book Ideas Individual BookReview,” Emily Cook.Deadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — Thrity Umri-gar, novelist.1 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERSSt.Ambrose Catholic Parish — “Tribal& US Government Relations,” Mario Gon-zalez, Joseph Marshall III, Tim Giago.

2 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.CHILDREN/YAElementary Lower Lunchroom — “KidsWho Change Paleontology,” Kristin Don-nan Standard.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS Elementary Auditorium — “Laura In-galls Wilder, A Writer’s Life,” PamelaSmith Hill.FICTIONDeadwood Public Library Downstairs— “Finding the Root of the Story,” SusanPowers, Thrity Umrigar.NON-FICTIONSilverado — “Social Justice,” SashaAbramsky, Terri Jentz.Masonic Temple Upstairs — “SouthDakota Germans and WWI,” DavidLaskin.POETRYDeadwood Public Library Upstairs —“Techniques of Awareness: Poetry & Art,”David Allan Evans.WRITERS’SUPPORTFranklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Buzz


Sunday September 30th from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Tatanka: Spirit of the Bison

During thisGatheringofNativeVoices,come to meet and hear the insights

of many Native Authors including Susan Power, Tim Giago, Joseph Marshall

III, Edward Valandra, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Craig Howe, Lanniko Lee,

Don Montileaux, Philomene Lakota and Donavan Sprague. This morning event

promises to be rich with authors whose books have inspired us, challenged

worldviews, and continue to propel us forward.

Come prepared to engage in dialogue that explores how the voices of Na-

tive peoples present a political worldview that is essential for understanding

who we are and where we are going.

Hosted by Lily Mendoza y Ducheneaux and facilitated by Ruth Yellowhawk.

Refreshments provided by Prairie Edge.

The Indigenous Issues Forums provides safe and respectful, family-centered

environments to talk through tough issues. Connecting with the human Spir-

it, self, friends, family and community create a space for us to visit and to dis-

cover a shared purpose together.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Prairie Edge and Indigenous

Issues Forums Present

A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES

AT FIFTH ANNUAL SOUTH DAKOTA

FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, A

PROGRAM OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA

HUMANITIES COUNCIL

Books for the Holidays,” MichelleBlankenship and Booksellers.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGPavilion Board Room — Ask an Author— Andrew Helfer, graphic novelist and bi-ographer.Deadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — Patrick Hicks,poet.

2 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.FICTIONMasonic Temple Main floor — “BlackHills Fiction,” Lori Armstrong, Karen Hall,Dan O’Brien, Kent Meyers, Jamie Lee.

3 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.CHILDREN/YAElementary Auditorium — “Collaborat-ing on Children’s Stories,” Carolyn Cona-han, Pamela Smith Hill.FICTIONElementary Upper Library — “DebutNovelists,” Ellen Baker, Nyla Griffith,Spring Warren.Elementary Lower Lunchroom — “Sex,Violence and the Modern Mystery,” CraigJohnson, Lori Armstrong.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS Masonic Temple Upstairs — “PreservingHistory,” Mary Kopco, Jay Vogt, StephenRogers.POETRYDeadwood Public Library Upstairs —“Memory Song,” Lydia Whirlwind Soldier.WRITERS’SUPPORTFranklin Hotel Emerald Room — “Pro-ducing a Debut Book — Novel, Non-Fic-tion, and Memoir,” Marilyn Johnson, DebEarling, Deb Marquart.Silverado — “The Pros and Cons of Co-Authorship,” Marcia Mitchell, KristinDonnan Standard.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGPavilion Board Room — Ask a Publisher— “Reviewing Regional Non-FictionBook Ideas,” Nancy Tystad Koupal.Deadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Illustrator — WarrenHanson.

4 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.CHILDREN/YA Lead Elementary Auditorium —

“Picture This: Children Book Illustrators,”Carolyn Conahan, Warren Hanson, DonMontileaux.FICTIONMasonic Temple Main floor — “How toPopulate Your Novels with Friends andFamilies, ‘Cuz They’re Never Going toRecognize Themselves,” Craig Johnson.HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITERS Masonic Temple Upstairs — “Firestorm:Courage, Cowardice, and Conflagration inan American Town,” Daniel James Brown.NON-FICTIONElementary School Upper Library —“Buffalo Ranching,” Dan O’Brien.Deadwood Public Library Downstairs —“Mummies and Mosques Slide Show,”Bruce Junek, Tass Thacker.POETRYDeadwood Public Library Upstairs —“From England to the Hills: Place BasedPoems,” Patrick Hicks.Elementary Lower Lunchroom —“When Music & Language Meld-LIVE!”David Romtvedt.WRITERS’SUPPORTFranklin Hotel Emerald Room — “BookGroup ABC’s and Hot Book Selections,”Emily Cook and Booksellers.WRITERS’CORNER-REGISTER ATSDHUMANITIES.ORGDeadwood Public Library Round TableRoom — Ask an Author — “Down Time,”Joseph Marshall III.

5 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.Deadwood Pavilion — Mass Book Signing.

6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.POETRYMasonic Temple Main floor — “The PoetLaureates,” Ted Kooser, David AllanEvans, David Romtvedt; hosted by BillHolm.

8:00 p.m – 9:45 p.m.MIXED GENREMasonic Temple Main floor — “A Read-ing for the Ages,” Terri Jentz, Richard Ford,Pete Dexter, Sonia Manzano.

10:00 p.m. – 10:45 p.m.FICTIONAdams Museum — Ghost Stories — Black Hills Storytellers. No charge, pleasecall ahead to reserve a spot. (605) 578-1714.



AUTHORS

Barbara Schnell, Los Angeles, Cal.www.bagmlit.com, First Year

Bruce Roseland, Seneca, The Last Buffalo

Marian Mathews Hersrud, Sturgiswww.marianmathewshersrud.com, Spirits and Black Leather

Jane A. Green, Clark,Plain Jane’s Misadventures

Sue Christensen, Vermillion, Lies du Jour

BOOKSELLERS

Border’s Books & Café, Rapid Citywww.bordersstores.com

Paper Back Swap, Suwanne, GAwww.paperbackswap.com

Prairie Edge Trading CO & Galleries,Rapid City, www.prairieedge.com

Scholastic Book Fair, Hosted by Paha SapaReading Council

The Wingspread Enterprise, Custer

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Boss Mouse, Sturgis, www.bossmouse.com

Usborne Books, Rapid Citywww.usborneunlimited.net

ORGANIZATIONS

Adams Museum & House, Deadwoodwww.adamsmuseumandhouse.org

Historic Deadwood Lead Arts Council,Lead,www.deadwoodleadartscouncil.com

Literacy Council of the Black Hills,Rapid Citywww.literacycouncil-blackhills.org

Mount Rushmore History Association, Keystone, www.mtrushmorebookstore.com

Rapid City Library Foundation, Rapid City, www.rapidcitylibrary.org

S.D. Literacy Council, Volga,www.readsd.org

S.D. State Library & S.D. Library Association, Pierre, www.sdstatelibrary.com

Three Voices, Rapid City

Western Writers of America,Albuquerquewww.westernwriters.org

PRESSES

Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, www.augie.edu/CWS/

Darkling Publications, Kyle

Four Directions Publishing, Custerwww.edmcgaa.com

Many Kites Press, Rapid Citywww.manykites.com

Pine Hill Press, Sioux Falls www.pinehillpress.com

Red Dragonfly Press, Northfieldwww.reddragonpress.com

Royal Tine Publishing, Belle Fourchewww.royaltineimages.com

Savage Press/Olaf Danielson, Milbankwww.savpress.com

SD Public Broadcasting, Vermillionwww.sdpb.org

S.D. State Historical Society Press, Pierre,www.sdshspress.com

Three Moon Publishing, Sioux Fallswww.threemoonpublishing.com

Western Writers of America,Albuquerque, NM , www.westernwriters.org

OTHER

Jon Crane Watercolors, Inc, Hill Citywww.joncranewatercolors.com

S.D. Committee on Publication, Rapid City

Exhibitors Hall

Stop by the Exhibitor’s Hall located in the Deadwood Pavilion,

opens on Friday at Noon to 6 p.m. andon Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 282 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Val Farmer, author of To Have and to Hold

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2910 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Dayton Hyde author of All The Wild Horses

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Patrick D. Roseland, Co-Author of Rapid

City Historic Downtown Architecture

1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Kevin Weiland author of The Dakota Diet

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Philomine Lakota author of Shota and the

Star Quilt and Frank A. (Bull Tail) Scout

author of Grandfathers Bedtime Stories

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2007 One Book South Dakota

I VA N D O I G ’ S THEWHISTLING SEASON

IVAN DOIG’S NEWEST novel, The

WhistlingSeason, has been acclaimed

as “a deeply meditative and achieved

art” by TheNewYorkTimesBookReview,

which is acute praise for the 68 year-

old writer who has published eight fic-

tion novels and three non-fiction. The

time Doig has spent writing has honed

his use of words into a high art.

An interviewer once asked Doig why

he writes. He responded, “A lifetime of

reasons, but here’s one: for the love of

language and that daily tryst of the pair

of us, it and me, creating something that

did not exist before.”

TheWhistlingSeason is set in Mon-

tana during the early 1900s. Widower

Oliver Milliron, looking for a house-

keeper, is attracted to a newspaper ad

stating “Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.”

His response brings the sudden ap-

pearance of attractive housekeeper

Rose Llewellyn, and an added surprise

— her well-educated, but penniless

brother Morris Morgan. When the

town is in sudden need of a school-

teacher, Morgan is elected and the stu-

dents get a one of a kind education from

the surprisingly brilliant teacher.

Doig will speak at a One Book Re-

ception and the Literary Feast on Fri-

day. On Saturday, he and Kent Meyers

will look at Perspectives of the One

Book selection, TheWhistlingSeason.

RICHARD FORD’S first book, TheSportswriter, introduced protag-

onist Frank Bascombe to the world in1986. At that time “everyman” Frankfaced an emotional crisis after the lossof his son, the demise of his marriageand failing literary career.

Bascombe has since touched achord with readers and with Ford him-self. He wrote two more books fromBascombe’s point of view, Indepen-dence Day in 1995 and TheLay of the Land in 2006. Fordreceived a Pen/Faulkner awardfor The Sportswriter, and botha Pen/Faulkner award andPulitzer Prize for Indepen-dence Day, the first novelist towin both prizes for a singlebook. Ford is also acclaimedas a master of the short story. Besideshis six novels, he has published threecollections of short stories.

Born in Jackson, Mississippi in1944, Ford was the son of a travelingsalesman. He met his wife, KristinaHensley, in 1968 while attendingMichigan State University. He oncetold an interviewer, “writing is the on-ly thing I’ve ever done with persist-ence, except for being married.”

In almost all Ford’s interviews, hetalks about his marriage, and how ithas contributed to his success. Afterhe won the Pulitzer Prize for Indepen-dence Day, Ford told a Salon.com re-porter, “Well, I know that by living 32years with the same woman my viewof the world has been remarkablychanged, certainly in a way it wouldnot have been if I had lived alone ornot been with this wonderfully force-ful, smart woman who doesn’t missanything. She makes it appealing totry to widen my view, for instance, tobe sure that you’re not thinking out ofonly one part of your brain.”

Pete Dexter, whose best knownwork is the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout, will also presentin Deadwood. He has written fourscreenplays, including “Rush,” a copdrama, and “Michael,” starring JohnTravolta as a slobbish, over-sexed car-icature of the eponymous archangel.

Two “One Book South Dakota” au-thors will speak on their award win-ning books including Ivan Doig, au-

thor of this year’s OneBook South Dakota TheWhistling Season, and KentMeyers author of the 2005One Book South Dakota,The Work of Wolves.

Mystery and suspensewill play a central role inthe 2007 festival. Rapid

City mystery writer Lori Armstrongwill present on her books HallowedGround, Blood Ties and ShallowGrave. Other mystery novelists in-clude Deadwood business owner Ny-la Griffith and former Wyoming res-ident Spring Warren, who both usehistory as a backdrop in their books,Lucky Strike and Turpentine.

Other mystery authors includeKaren Hall, who will discuss her nov-el, Unreasonable Risk and CraigJohnson, who just published his thirdbook in a series about a Wyomingsheriff. Susan Power, an award win-ning novelist who will present frombooks set on a Sioux reservation;Thrity Umrigar is an Indian novelistwhose book The Space Between Us isset in modern day India. Ellen Baker,author of Keeping the House, writesabout a newlywed who falls in lovewith a house and begins to unravel itssecrets. Katrina Kittel, author ofKindness of Strangers, tells about awidow raising two young boys andtaking on a foster son.

The Everyman’s WriterPulitzer -prize winning author Ford to speak in Deadwood.


Of Publishing and Perseverance

F R O M L AW T O L I T E R AT U R E

AS A YOUNG GIRL on Montana’s Flathead

Indian Reservation, Debra Magpie Ear-

ling couldn’t image that the stories told

by her Aunt Louise would help her write

a best-selling novel. Earling dropped out

of high school but was able to attend the

University of Washington, where she

earned a BA in English, and then went

on to receive an MFA in fiction from

Cornell University.

Having worked for the Tribal Justice

System at the Flathead Reservation,

Earling initially sought a law degree, but

when she published her first short story

she says, “It changed my life.” She now is

an accomplished writer and instructor

of fiction and Native American studies

at the University of Montana. She has

written numerous short stories that ap-

peared in anthologies and magazines.

In her debut novel,PermaRed,Earling

writes of Louise White Elk, a young half-

breed seeking love and freedom in the

tiny town of Perma, Mont. One review-

er says Earling has “a mythic quality in

her writing that beautifully suits her tale.”

Earling currently is working on

a memoir and a novel, for which she

received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Neither has a title; Earling says she usu-

ally chooses the title after the work is

completed.

“WRITING,” SAID WINSTON CHURCHILL, “is an adven-ture.” It can be a challenge, too, and the struggle

doesn’t end with the period on a manuscript’s last sen-tence. The next venture is to publish. In the Writers’Sup-port track, authors and industry reps will reveal ways inwhich the publishing process can be less daunting.

“My first advice is to work on process and craft,” saysDeb Marquart, adding that if youdon’t, “you probably won’t be happywith what you eventually publish.” Aprofessor of English at Iowa StateUniversity and winner of numerouswriting awards, Marquart has pub-lished two poetry collections, a seriesof short stories and a memoir of heryouth on a North Dakota farm. Sheis currently writing her first novel,The Olive Harvest, the story of an American widow whobecomes embroiled in ancient feuds on a Greek island.

Both Marquart and Debra Earling can testify to thestruggles of being published, having written for about 20years before seeing their first books in print. “I know thehardship and joy of perseverance,” Earling says. She, too,emphasizes continuously elevating the skills of writing,“and re-writing.”

Also presenting in the Writers’Support track is Mari-lyn Johnson who drew from her experience of writingobituaries for celebrities — from Lady Di to Johnny Cash— to produce The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs

and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries, which was a fi-nalist for the 2006 Discover Award for nonfiction.

Johnson offers a different perspective of publishing,having been a staff writer for Life and editor for Esquire,Redbook and Outside. And she also can share times offrustration. She writes poetry and says, “I’ve never meta poet who isn’t familiar with rejection.”

Johnson will join Sports Illustratededitor Rob Fleder and author Pete Dex-ter on a panel entitled “Where Journal-ism Leads You in the Book World.”

The Directors of Publicity for Har-court and Milkweed Editions will givetips on the publishing industry and willoffer suggestions on book choices forthe 2007 holiday season and bookgroups. North Dakota professor Greg

Gagnon will present on selecting tribal literature for chil-dren and a group of South Dakota publishers will offeradvice on small presses. Jay Vogt and Stephen Rogerswill talk about using the Deadwood fund. Bernie Hun-hoff and Nancy Tystad Koupal will give tips in "Non-Fic-tion Publishing 101." Debut authors will suggest ways topublish the first novel, memoir, or non-fiction book.

With all the tips and insights offered at the Festival ofBooks for up-and-coming authors, the primary key to be-ing published is to not give up or become discouraged.Says Marquart, “Patience is probably the writer’s bestvirtue.”

Writer’s Corner —New to the Festival in ‘07

Register at sd.humanities.org to have a free-flow-

ing conversation with an author. Limited to 8 par-

ticipants in the Library Round Table Room (L.) and

16 in the Pavilion Board Room (P.)

Ellen Baker,

9-9:45 AM, L.

Kristin Donnan Standard,

9-9:45 AM, P.

Spring Warren,

10-10:45 AM, Lib

Rebecca Norris Webb

and Alex Webb,

10-10:45 AM, P.

Michelle Blankenship,

Individual Book Reviews,

11-11:45 AM, P.

Craig Johnson,

11-11:45 AM, L.

Emily Cook,

Individual Book Review,

1-1:45 PM, P.

Thrity Umrigar,

1-1:45 PM, P.

Andrew Helfer,

2-2:45 PM, P.

Patrick Hicks,

2-2:45 PM, L.

Warren Hanson,

3-3:45 PM, L.

Nancy Tystad Koupal,

Individual Book Ideas

3-3:45 PM, P.

Joseph Marshall III,

4-4:45 PM, L.


SOME VIEW HISTORY as a dustbinof dry data. But, in fact, histo-

ry can be popularized, as in KennethDavis book, Don’t Know MuchAbout History: Everything YouNeed to Know About American His-tory But Never Learned. It also canbe fictionalized, an example beingVirginia Driving Hawk Sneve’s BadRiver Boys, based on explorerWilliam Clark’s ac-count and aboutthree young Lakotamen who encounterthe Corps of Discov-ery expedition.

History also canbe adventuresome,when expanding onevents not widelyknown. In The Chil-dren’s Blizzard,David Laskin writesof the horrific winterof 1888, when abone-numbingsnowstorm descends on the Mid-west with hurricane force, killingmore than 500 people. Another ex-ample is Daniel James Brown’sbook about the massive f irestormin the lumber-mill town of Hinck-ley, Minn., which took over 400lives more than a century ago. AndEdward Valandra looks at legisla-tion passed in the 1950s to end theauthority of local Native Americangovernment in Not Without OurConsent.

History can be written for youngadults. Ann Bausum has followedup the young reader’s Our Coun-try’s Presidents with Our Country’sFirst Ladies, an encompassing lookat the legacies, adventures, person-alities and aesthetics of the presi-dents’wives; Jamie Lee has taken ahistorical look at the clash of Lako-

ta and pioneer culture in Washaka:Bear Dreamer.

Most of all, history can constant-ly be reinterpreted. The well-knownLakota historian, Joseph MarshallIII, for instance, strays from theconventional, text book view ofCuster’s Last Stand to offer the Na-tive American viewpoint in Day theWorld Ended at Little Bighorn: A

Lakota History.Likewise, CraigHowe offers a differ-ent perspective onthe Lewis and ClarkExpedition in HateSpeech, Horses andHostages: An Alter-native History ofLewis and ClarkAmong the Tetons.

In addition, thereare individuals try-ing to preserve his-tory by saving his-toric buildings.

Stephan Rogers and Jay Vogt haveauthored a book about South Dako-ta’s historic places. And Mary Kop-co, director of the Adams Museumand House in Deadwood, wroteabout restoring the Adams House,a beautiful Queen Anne-style man-sion built in 1892.

Finally, history can be romantic,as revealed in Sunshine Always: TheCourtship Letters of Alice Bowerand Joseph Gossage of Dakota Ter-ritory, edited by Paula Nelson. Andit can be humorous, as in CowboyLife: The Letters of George Philip,edited by Cathie Draine.

The aforementioned authors, ap-pearing in the History and TribalWriting track, demonstrate that his-tory is anything but a dry dustbin.

L A K O TA VA L U E S

IN H I S B O O K Lakota Way, Joseph

Marshall III offers the 12 values of

the Lakota people, of which he is

one. The values include humility,

bravery, perseverance and love,

and are evident

in all of his writ-

ing, which is

considerable.

Marshall has

published six

nonfiction

works and one

novel — and he

appears to be hitting his stor y-

telling stride, as he is has two books

published this year and three more

planned for 2008 and ’09.

The new releases are TheDay the

World Ended at Little Bighorn (non-

fiction) and Hundred in theHand, a

novel about the Fetterman Mas-

sacre of 1866.Next year ThePow-

er of Four:Crazy Horse on Leader-

shipandTheLongKnivesareCrying,

the sequel toHundred in theHand,

will be on shelves. And in 2009

Sterling Publishing will release To

YouWeShall Return, about Native

American philosophies regarding

the environment and how they were

shaped.

Marshall gained wisdom — and

an interest in handcrafted bows and

arrows — from his grandfather and

passes on his teachings in the book

and CD Walking withMyGrandfa-

ther. In addition to revealing much

about Lakota spirituality and cul-

ture in his writing, Marshall also was

a co-founder of Sinte Gleska Uni-

versity on the Rosebud Sioux

Reser vation. These, plus his

achievements in TV and movie pro-

ductions on Native Americans,

have done much to advance the

Lakota’s 12 values.

Many Sides of History

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