Texas Book Festival

Texas Book Festival
October 27-28, 2012
Texas State Capitol
Admission - Free

The Texas Book Festival , a nationally-recognized book fair featuring more than 250 Texas and national authors, has been an Austin tradition since 1996.

The free weekend festival, spearheaded by former First Lady Laura Bush back when she lived in the Texas Governor's Mansion in the 1990s, draws 40,000 attendees.

It provides a very cool opportunity to celebrate books on a wide variety of ideas across multiple genres, from poetry to politics and everything in between. You can hear authors read from and discuss their works, listen in on other panel discussions, and - since it's Austin - even catch some live music.

Additionally, the festival benefits Texas libraries.

And the event's location has to be one of the best venues of any book festival in the country - the Texas State Capitol .

There will also be children's events and entertainment, and this year the festival has expanded to include events and readings at venues beyond the Capitol (see the author and schedule links below).

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2012 Texas Book Festival Schedule and Authors

Be sure to check out the official Texas Book Festival Schedule .

And for more author information, you can also check out the offical 2012 Texas Book Festival Authors List , which includes links to individual author bios and descriptions of their featured works.

2012 Author List:

David Abrams
Hipolito Acosta
Bruce Aidells
Ayad Akhtar
E. Kristin Anderson
Katherine Applegate
Gustavo Arellano
Jami Attenberg
Avi
Paolo Bacigalupi
Bob Balaban
Rosecrans Baldwin
Mac Barnett
Annie Barrows
Steven Barthelme
Kelly Bennett
Lou Berney
Jeff Biggers
Andrew Blackwell
Matt Bondurant
Brain Quest
H.W. Brands
Michael Brick
Douglas Brinkley
George Bristol
Peter Brown
Shana Burg
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Ken Caillat
Ina Caro
Robert Caro
Dale Carpenter
Kristin Cashore
Brian Castner
Katherine Catmull
William H. Chafe
Cinda Williams Chima
R. Gregory Christie
Marcia Clark
William J. Cobb
Cherie Colburn
Nora de Hoyos Comstock
Winifred Conkling
Andy Coolquitt
Sarah Cortez
Elizabeth Crane
Andrea Cremer
Kambri Crews
Margie Crisp
Justin Cronin
Karen Cushman
Mark Z. Danielewski
Tony Danza
Bree Despain
David Dettmer
Junot Diaz
William J. Dobson
James Donovan
Robert Draper
Naomi Duguid
Dayton Duncan
Jessica Dupuy
Damien Echols
Kurt Eichenwald
John Eisenberg
Paul Elie
Chris Elliott
Michael Ennis
Michael Erard
Will Erwin
Jonathan Evison
Jasper Fforde
Sarah Fioroni
Candace Fleming
Ben Fountain
Thomas Frank
Ian Frazier
James K. Galbraith
Marjorie Galen
Chris Gall
Gilbert Garcia
Kami Garcia
Anthony Giardina
Michael Gillette
Adam Goodheart
Alice Gordon
Hilary Weisman Graham
Reyna Grande
Michael Grant
Amelia Gray
Tim Green
Jesse Griffiths
Liz Gutman
Janice Hamrick
Jenny Han
Noah Hawley
C.A. Heifner
J. R. Helton
Tad Hills
Michelle Hodkin
Henry Horenstein
Sam Hurt
Mary Irish
Jewel
Maureen Johnson
Stephen Graham Jones
Jodi Kantor
Anna Keesey
Jacqueline Kelly
Jen King
Jon Klassen
Austin Kleon
Helen Knode
Yael Kohen
Thomas Kreneck
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Diana LA3pez
Lynda Lanker
Joe Lansdale
Hope Larson
Peter LaSalle
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Jenny Lawson
David W. Lesch
Meira Levinson
Sanford Levinson
Cynthia Levinson
David Levithan
Margot Livesey
Attica Locke
Nikki Loftin
Loren Long
Katherine Losse
Marie Lu
James Luna
Michael MacCambridge
Kristen-Paige Madonia
David Maraniss
Leonard S. Marcus
Domingo Martinez
Kati Marton
D. T. Max
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Lily Raff McCaulou
Jenna Hays McEachern
Lisa McMann
Bryan Mealer
Chris Meister
David Menconi
Bill Milliken
Simon Sebag Montefiore
TomA!s Q. MorAn
Diane Morgan
Vance Muse
Gary Nabhan
Charlie Newton
Garth Nix
Tim O'Brien
The Onion
Hugo Ortega
Carolyn Osborn
Julie Otsuka
Adriana Pacheco
Melinda Palacio
Keija Parsinnen
Joe Nick Patoski
Becky Crouch Patterson
Kate Payne
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Dav Pilkey
Turk Pipkin
Andrew Porter
Dan Rather
Amy Reading
Ben Rehder
Jan Reid
Adam Rex
Steven Rinella
Adam Roberts
Scott Roberts
Eric Rohmann
Carlin Romano
Marco Roth
Edith Royal
Ron Rozelle
Lynda Rutledge
RenA(c) SaldaA+-a Jr.
Barney Saltzberg
Esmeralda Santiago
Steven Saylor
Liz Garton Scanlon
Krista Schlyer
Gary D. Schmidt
Michael Schuessler
John Schwartz
Jon Scieszka
Elaine Scott
Mike Scotti
Rob Scotton
Kirk Scroggs
Maria Semple
David Shapard
Bob Shea
Anita Silvey
Sylvie Simmons
Greg Leitich Smith
Tyler Stoddard Smith
Roland Smith
Suzy Spencer
John Spong
Ilan Stavans
Rebecca Stead
Erin Stead
Philip C. Stead
Maggie Stiefvater
Deanne Stillman
Margaret Stohl
Abby Stokes
Michel Stone
W.K. Stratton
Emma Straub
Cheryl Strayed
Mathew Sturtevant
Robert Sullivan
Rachel L. Swarns
Don Tate
Kayte Terry
Chuck Thompson
Stephen Tobolowsky
Duncan Tonatiuh
Jeffrey Toobin
Paul Tough
Pat Tucker
Mark Updegrove
Catherynne M. Valente
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Ray Villareal
Siobhan Vivian
Jason Walker
Robb Walsh
Ellis Weiner
David Westin
Andrea White
Ted Widmer
Henry Wiencek
Sean Williams
Dan Winters
Naomi Wolf
Paul Woodruff
Reavis Z. Wortham
Tom Wright
Claire Wurtzel
Bill Wurtzel
Philip Yates
Charles Yu
Ralph Yznaga
Zane
Gwendolyn Zepeda