Over the past month, BookExpo America [5] has been announcing the authors scheduled to appear at this year’s breakfast events. The complete lineup is listed below. Tickets are required for all breakfast events; information about pricing is available here [6].

In addition, this week it was announced that musician and upcoming author Neil Young will speak at a free lunchtime event on June 6. No tickets are required, and BEA badgeholders are invited to bring their lunch.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Stephen Colbert, AMERICA AGAIN: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t (Grand Central Publishing)
• Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead/Penguin Group, USA)
• Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior (HarperCollins)
• Jo Nesbo, Phantom (Knopf)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Children’s Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Chris Colfer, The Land of Stories (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
• John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton/Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Lois Lowry, Son (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Kadir Nelson, I Have a Dream (Random House Children’s Books)

Noon:  A Free Lunchtime Event (Special Events Hall)
Bring your own lunch.

• A Conversation With Neil Young (Waging Heavy Peace, Blue Rider Press)

THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

• Kirstie Alley, Untitled ( Atria Books) 
• Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue: A Novel (HarperCollins)
• Zadie Smith, NW: A Novel (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group, USA)
• J.R. Moehringer, Sutton (Hyperion)