More than 40 Authors to Appear in ABA Member Lounge at BookExpo [3]

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].

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