2nd Annual Tucson Festival of Books

The second annual Tucson Festival of Books is back on the University of Arizona campus Saturday and next Sunday.
The festival is expected to draw in excess of 50,000 people and include more than 400 notable writers whose work covers a host of genres and styles.
There will be activities and entertainment for the entire family. Admission and parking are free.

Who's back: Authors make the festival, and we are thrilled to have a large number of returning authors including Elmore Leonard ("Road Dogs"), J.A. Jance ("Trial By Fire"), Luis Alberto Urrea ("Into the Beautiful North"), Nancy Turner ("These is my Words"), Charles de Lint ("Eyes Like Leaves"), Jennifer Lee Carrell ("Interred With Their Bones"), Jay Dobyns ("No Angel") and Michael Blake ("Dances With Wolves").

Who's new: Some of the new faces are Larry McMurtry ("Rhino Ranch"), Diana Ossana ("Brokeback Mountain"), Scott Simon ("Windy City"), Alice Hoffman ("The Story Sisters"), Phillip Margolin ("Supreme Justice"), Terry Brooks ("A Princess of Landover"), Robert Crais ("The First Rule"), Curtis Sittenfeld ("American Wife"), Frank Beddor ("The Looking Glass Wars"), Tony Zinni ("The Battle for Peace"), Jon Scieszka ("Robot Zot"), David Morrell ("First Blood"), Baxter Black ("The Back Page"), Jamie Ford ("Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet"), Chris O'Dell ("Miss O'Dell"), Doug Stanton ("Horse Soldiers"), Mary Pipher ("Reviving Ophelia") and Christopher Reich ("Rules of Vengeance"). read more