February 17 & 18, 2012
Presidents’ Day Weekend
2012 Book Festival Announces Headliners
The 2012 Amelia Island Book Festival will once again bring some of America’s best selling, best known authors to town for the February 17 and18, 2012 event.
Steve Berry Awarded the first Literacy Leader Award given by the Amelia Island Book Festival, Steve Berry has been an avid supporter of the festival. The New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series had a long and arduous road to publishing, including 12 years and 85 rejections over 5 manuscripts. Berry now has 12 million books in print, translated into 40 languages and sold in 51 countries. He is an accomplished instructor, having taught writing to audiences across the globe. Berry lives in St Augustine, FL. He and his wife, Elizabeth, started a foundation, History Matters, to aid in the preservation of our heritage.
www.steveberry.org
David Morrell created Rambo in his novel First Blood. Morrell, the author of over 30 books, also wrote the six part comic book series, Captain America: The Chosen. He has received numerous awards including three Bram Stoker awards and the International Thriller Master award. The first book in his spy trilogy became the only miniseries to be broadcast after a Super Bowl. A former university professor, Morrell also authored The Successful Novelist in which he discusses what he has learned in four decades as an author. He is always interested in exploring different ways to tell a story.
www.davidmorrell.net
Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of two collections of poetry as well as a memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride. Her NYT best-selling novel, The Paris Wife, brings to life the Paris of the 1920′s and the marriage of Hadley and Ernest Hemingway.
She lives with her family in Cleveland.
www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/features/paula_mclain/
Tatjana Soli. The Lotus Eaters was described in the New York Times as “A haunting debut… tough and lyrical” and “devastatingly awesome” by PR’s Nancy Pearl. The novel about the Viet Nam War was written through the eyes of a female photo journalist. The first time author of this New York Times Notable Book, Tatjana Soli, received numerous awards for this novel including Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Soli’s writing has appeared in many publications and her work has twice been listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She lives in Southern California.
www.tatjanasoli.com
