The Baltimore Book Festival features more than 200 authors speaking on 8 stages throughout the festival!
2011 Presenting Authors
The First: President Barack Obama’s Road to the White House
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Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
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The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy
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Dreams; Tomorrow's Memories; The Halfling’s Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale; The Literary Handyman
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I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto
Cruising Toward Love, Act Like We're In Love, Carolina Heat
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Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex and Relationships for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them)
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Andrea Bonior
The Friendship Fix
Eddie Brown
Ching-In Chen
Crystal Cook
Chic Dambach
Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder
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Warrior's Rise; Dragon Child; Absolution; The Ultimate Game
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Mercy Lord, My Husband's in the Kitchen; My Favorite Midlife Crisis (Yet)
Avery's Treasure, A Certain Want of Reason, The Appearance of Impropriety
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Jai Dulani
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Peabody Collections Spotlight: Birds, Beasts, and Books
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Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6
Sarah Gardner Borden
The Girl Who Renegotiated Trauma
Clarinda Harriss
Honoree, Harriss Poetry Prize
George Washington Stepped Here, Worth Its Weight in Old, Toto's Tale
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Another Fine Mess
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Peabody Collections Spotlight: Feral Women to Paper Bag Cookery
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Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Letty James
Feiffer Kate
Yours for the Taking, Breakfast in Bed, Too Hot to Handle, Romeo, Romeo
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Christie Kelley
A Lady's Charade; A Pirate's Bounty; Lady Seductress's Ball
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The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book One: The Medusa Plot
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Sarah Lazare
Lyah Beth LeFlore
Betrayal's Shadow, Warrior Reborn, Return of the Legacy
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Bryan MacKay
Baltimore Trails
A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories; Dreadful Delineations; Divagations
A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories; Dreadful Delineations; Divagations
Catbird; The Future Generation; Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind
Juliet Martini
Michael Mattocks
Guess How Much I Love You
Chris McCreary
Undone: a fakebook
Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontier of Fatherhood
Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion / Jane and the Damned
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Brian Murphy
See Mix Drink
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
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Black Marks on White Paper
Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City
The Hoodoo Apprentice; Benevolence; Oliver Swizzlestick
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Charmaine Parker
Antero Pietila
Sandy Pollock
Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
John Prendergast
Michelle Ratner
Vegan Unplugged: A Pantry Cuisine Cookbook and Survival Guide
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An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country
Gillian Royas
Adam Ruben
Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go To Grad School
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Lisa Ruff
Dance for the Ivory Madonna; A Rose From Old Terra
Celeste Sollod
Baltimore Bibliophile and Baltimore Book Blogger
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics
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Murray Leinster: The Life and Work
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Susan Stockdale
In the Drift; Vacuum Flowers; Griffin's Egg; Stations of the Tide; The Iron Dragon's Daughter; Jack Faust
Cheat on Your Husband (With Your Husband): How To Date Your Spouse
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White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
The Atomic Weight of Secrets or The Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black
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Peabody Collections Spotlight: The Great Exhibition
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Memoirs of a Queer Hapa; Loneberry
Sarah Wendell
The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality
Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff
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Moonlight and Illusions, Adam's Treasure, Jenny's Passion, Lila's Vow, Secrets and Sacrifices
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Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One
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