More than 40 Authors to Appear in ABA Member Lounge at BookExpo [3]
- By Sydney Jarrard [4]
Throughout BookExpo 2018 [5], a stellar lineup of authors will be visiting the ABA Member Lounge [6] (Booth 721 on the trade show floor) to chat with booksellers and sign galleys and finished books.
Author signings are scheduled as follows:
On Wednesday, May 30, from 2:00 to 2:45 p.m. (following the Celebration of Bookselling Lunch [7]):
- Gabriela Alemán, Poso Wells (City Lights Publishers)
- Andrea Beaty, Ada Twist, Scientist (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
- Michael Bornstein, Survivor’s Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
- Pablo Cartaya, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Viking Books for Young Readers)
- Nicole Chung, All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir (Catapult)
- Eric Fan, The Antlered Ship (Beach Lane Books)
- Terry Fan, The Antlered Ship (Beach Lane Books)
- Christopher Finan, Drunks: An American History (Beacon Press)
- David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday)
- Nikki Grimes, One Last Word: Wisdom From the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomsbury USA Children’s)
- Alan Gratz, Refugee (Scholastic Press)
- Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida: A Novel (Coffee House Press)
- Thyra Heder, Alfie (Harry N. Abrams)
- Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, Survivor’s Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
- Tiffany D. Jackson, Allegedly (Katherine Tegen Books)
- A.J. Jacobs, It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree (Simon & Schuster)
- Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Dial Books)
- Katie Kitamura, A Separation: A Novel (Riverhead Books)
- David Levithan, Sam & Ilsa’s Last Hurrah (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Graywolf Press)
- Daniel Magariel, One of the Boys: A Novel (Scribner)
- Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking)
- Holly M. McGhee, Come With Me (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
- Kadir Nelson, I Have a Dream (Schwartz & Wade)
- Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver (Del Rey)
- Jason Reynolds, For Every One (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
- Martin Riker, Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return (Coffee House Press)
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica (Simon & Schuster)
- Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End (HarperTeen)
- Jessie Sima, Harriet Gets Carried Away (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Lane Smith, A House That Once Was (Roaring Brook Press)
- Nic Stone, Odd One Out (Crown Books for Young Readers)
- Brendan Wenzel, Life (Beach Lane Books)
On Thursday, May 31, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. (following the BookExpo Adult Authors Breakfast [8]):
- Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered (Harper)
- Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Dutton)
- Tommy Orange, There There (Knopf)
- Nicholas Sparks, Every Breath (Grand Central)
On Friday, June 1, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. (following the BookExpo Children’s Authors Breakfast [9]):
- Viola Davis, Corduroy Takes a Bow (Viking Books for Young Readers)
- Dave Eggers, What Can a Citizen Do? (Chronicle)
- Meg Medina, Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Candlewick)
- Yuyi Morales, Dreamers (Neal Porter Books)
- Jacqueline Woodson, The Day You Begin (Nancy Paulsen Books)
BookExpo will be held May 30 to June 1 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. Booksellers can register for free badges [10] by providing their ABA member ID number during the registration process. More information about ABA’s programming at BookExpo can be found on BookWeb.org [11].