House Chamber 
10 AM � 11 AM  Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony 
Honoring Shirley Ann Grau 
Interviewer: Robert Phillips 
Presiding: Thomas F. Jaques 
11:30 AM � 12:30 PM    Retelling Folktales for Children 
Sharon Arms Doucet 
Eric Kimmel
Robert D. San Souci
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Austin 
1 PM � 1:45 PM  Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives  
of Marie Laveau 
Martha Ward 
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Robert Crais: A Writer�s Life 
Robert Crais with Beth Courtney 
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Julie Smith 
Louisiana Lament 
House Committee Room 1
10 AM � 10:45 AM  Wayne Parent 
Inside the Carnival: Unmasking  
Louisiana Politics 
NOON � 12:45 PM George Rodrigue 
The Art of George Rodrigue: A  
Cajun Artist   
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
Robert D. San Souci 
The Well at the End of the World 
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Eric Kimmel
Cactus Soup 
and 
Don Quixote & the Windmills   
3 PM � 3:45 PM
Jerry Strahan 
Andrew Jackson Higgins and the  
Boats That Won World War II 
House Committee Room 2
10 AM � 10:45 AM  Leon Standifer 
Gardening in the Humid South 
11 AM � 11:45 AM    Laurie Lynn Drummond 
Anything You Say Can and Will be  
Used Against You: Stories 
NOON � 12:45 PM 
Robert Phillips 
The Madness of Art: Interviews  
with Poets and Writers   
1 PM � 1:45 PM
Minrose Gwin 
Wishing for Snow: A Memoir   
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Robb Walsh 
Are You Really Going to Eat That?  
Reflections of a Culinary Thrill  
Seeker   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Mary Helen Lagasse 
The Fifth Sun   
4 PM � 4:45 PM 
Their Craft and Sullen Art: Poets  
on Poetry 
Wilmer Mills
Sue Owen 
Ava Leavell Haymon 
Moderator: Julie Kane 
House Committee Room 3
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
Erica Spindler 
See Jane Die 
11:00 AM � 11:45 AM 
Bret Lott 
A Song I Knew by Heart   
NOON � 12:45 PM 
David Madden 
Thomas Wolfe�s Civil War   
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
James Wilcox 
Guest of a Sinner: A Novel   
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Neil O�Boyle Connelly 
Buddy Cooper Finds a Way: A Novel   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Andrew Fox 
Bride of the Fat White Vampire 
House Committee Room 4
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
Steve Berry 
The Romanov Prophecy   
11 AM � 11:45 AM 
Barbara Colley 
Polished Off   
NOON � 12:45 PM 
Ace Atkins 
Dirty South   
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
Laura Joh Rowland 
The Perfumed Sleeve: A Novel   
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Ernest Hill 
It�s All About the Moon When the  
Sun Ain�t Shining   
3:30 PM � 4:15 PM 
Reconstructing Lives 
Minrose Gwin
Martha Ward 
Moderator: Emily Toth 
House Committee Room 5
10:30 AM � 11:30 AM 
Private Eyes and Their Assistants
Laura Joh Rowland 
Julie Smith 
Moderator: Robert Skinner   
11:45 AM � 12:45 PM 
First Novels: Looking Back 
John Dufresne 
James Wilcox 
Moderator: John Lowe   
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
Indomitable Women in Fiction 
Mary Helen Lagasse
Bev Marshall
Moderator: Bret Lott 
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Inspired by Lives: Short Stories 
Robert Olen Butler 
Laurie Lynn Drummond 
Moderator: James Bennett   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
My Friend A. Hays Town 
David H. Sachs 
House Committee Room 6
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
Ronald J. Drez 
Remember D-Day: The Plan, the  
Invasion, Survivor Stories  
11 AM � 11:45 AM
Conquest, Occupation and Resistance 
Christina Vella
The Hitler Kiss 
NOON � 12:45 PM 
Steve Lohr 
The Programmers Who Created the  
Software Revolution   
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
John M. Barry 
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story  
of the 1918 Pandemic   
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Rick Bragg
The Art of the Memoir 
3 PM � 3:45 PM  Richard D. White, Jr. 
Roosevelt the Reformer 
Senate Chamber
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
A Conversation with Barry Gifford 
Interviewer: Joshua Clark   
11 AM � 11:45 AM 
Andrei Codrescu 
Wakefield: A Novel   
NOON � 12:45 PM 
Ken Wells 
Travels with Barley: A Journey  
Through Beer Culture in America 
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
Rodger Kamenetz 
The Lowercase Jew 
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
Jennifer Blake: Queen of Romance   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Robert Olen Butler 
Had a Good Time: Stories from  
American Postcards 
Senate Committee Room A
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
Olympia Vernon 
Logic   
11 AM � NOON 
Voices of the American South 
Lisa Abney 
Julie Kane 
Suzanne Disheroon-Green
Moderator: Susie Scifres Kuilan   
12:15 PM � 1 PM 
Humberto Fontova 
The Hellpig Hunt   
1:15 PM � 2 PM 
John Dufresne 
The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide  
to Writing Fiction   
2:15 PM � 3:15 PM 
Hunting, Divorce and Other Southern  
Pursuits 
Judy Conner
Humberto Fontova 
Julia Reed 
Moderator: James Gill   
3:30 PM � 4:30 PM 
Louisiana Literary Journals 
Jack Bedell 
Christopher Chambers
Richard W. Collins 
Moderator: Bret Lott 
Senate Committee Room C
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
From Cinderella to Ella Enchanted 
Betsy Miguez 
Denise Goetting   
11 AM � 11:45 AM 
Christmas Stories from Louisiana 
Dorothy Dodge Robbins 
Kenneth Robbins   
NOON � 12:45 PM 
David Meltzer 
Beat Thing 
1 PM � 1:45 PM 
Dayne Sherman 
Welcome to the Fallen Paradise   
2 PM � 2:45 PM 
J. Michael Veron 
The Caddie   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Carl A. Brasseaux 
Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous:  
A History and Directory 
Senate Committee Room E
10:30 AM � 11:15 AM 
Julia Reed
Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other  
Southern Phenomena   
11:30 AM � 12:30 PM 
Alluring Louisiana: The Bayou State In 
Romance
Jennifer Blake 
Joanna Wayne
Robin Wells
Moderator: Cher� Coen 
12:45 PM � 1:30 PM 
Jennifer Read Hawthorne 
Diamonds, Pearls & Stones: Jewels  
of Wisdom for Young Women 
1:45 PM � 2:45 PM 
The Dark Side of Mystery 
Erica Spindler
Jenna Mills
Deborah LeBlanc 
Moderator: Barbara Colley   
3 PM � 3:45 PM 
Toward Self Discovery: Unexpected  
Journeys 
M. A. Harper 
Sharon Arms Doucet 
Moderator: Darrell Bourque 
Senate Committee Room F
10 AM � 10:45 AM 
Gay Gomez 
A Wetland Biography: Seasons on  
Louisiana�s Chenier Plain   
11 AM � NOON 
The Curious Development of  
Louisiana�s Florida Parishes 
Dr. Robin Fabel 
Latimore Smith 
Dr. Paul H. Templet 
Moderator: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.   
12:15 PM � 1 PM 
Cleo Scott Brown 
Witness to the Truth: My Struggle  
for Human Rights in Louisiana 
1:15 PM � 2 PM 
T. A. Breaux 
Absinthe: Sip of Seduction 
2:15 PM � 3 PM
Allan C. Richard, Jr. 
& Mary Margaret Higginbotham 
Richard
The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana 
Chronicle
3:15 PM � 4 PM 
Jim Brown 
Justice Denied: How the Federal  
Court System Failed Former Louisiana  
Insurance Commissioner Jim Brown 
State Library of Louisiana Seminar Center
9 AM - 10 AM 
Louisiana Writes" Award Ceremony 
Sponsored by The Louisiana Writing  
Project 
Presiding: Ann Dobie 
10:15 AM � 11 AM
Anne Cooper Funderburg 
Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla:  
A History of American Ice Cream   
11:15 AM � NOON 
Galatoire�s: Biography of a Bistro 
Marda Burton 
Kenneth Holditch   
12:30 PM � 2:30 PM  and 3 PM � 5 PM 
FREE Book Appraisals � la Antiques  
Road Show 
By Joseph Cohen   
There will be a half hour break from 2:30 PM - 3 PM
State Library of Louisiana Reference Area
On-Line Resources: Louisiana Library Connection Database Demonstrations
By Public Librarians  
10 AM � 10:30 AM Genealogy 
10:30 AM � 11 AM Car Repair  
11 AM � 11:30 AM Business  
11:30 AM � NOON Health & Medicine 
NOON � 12:30 PM  Newspapers 
12:30 PM � 1 PM Genealogy  
1 PM � 1:30 PM Literature Resources 
1:30 PM � 2 PM Business 
2 PM � 2:30 PM Genealogy 
2:30 PM � 3 PM Health & Medicine  
3 PM � 3:30 PM Newspapers 
3:30 PM � 4 PM Genealogy  
4 PM � 4:30 PM Car Repair 
12:30 PM � 4:30 PM FREE Advice on the Care &  
Repair of Books By Renee de Ville 
Louisiana State Museum
10 AM � 11 AM 
Louisiana Young Readers� Choice  
Award Ceremony 
Honoring Mike Artell for Petite Rouge 
Presentation by Students of Comite 
Christian Academy 
Presiding: Gale Criswell
11:15 AM � NOON  Darrell Bourque 
The Blue Boat: Poems
12:15 PM � 1 PM 
Ava Leavell Haymon 
The Strict Economy of Fire: Poems 
1:15 PM � 2 PM 
Wilmer Mills 
Light for the Orphans
2:15 PM � 3 PM 
Stella Nesanovich 
Vespers at Mount Angel
3:15 PM � 4 PM 
Kids! Meet Louisiana Children�s Authors
Wayne T. McGaw 
Michaela York
Berthe Amoss
Erik Van Buren 
Moderator: Gale Criswell