Fall 2011 Events

"Making American Book Culture"

Nathan Bransford

Nathan Bransford is an author, former literary agent, and blogger.

Augusten Burroughs

Augusten Burroughs is the best-selling author of Running with Scissors.  He will be giving a talk titled: Memoir as Grand Unifying Experience.  The author will be available to sign books after the talk, and books will be for sale.

Gerald Richards

Gerald Richards is CEO of 826 National, a non-profit organization that supports writing, tutoring and publishing programs for under-resourced students.

Dean Rader

Dean Rader is author and USF professor of English.

Carl Bromley

Carl Bromley is Editorial Director, Nation Books, and the editor of the anthology Cinema Nation.

Robert Dreesen

Robert Dreesen is Senior Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press.

Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee is a San Francisco author and USF Writing faculty member.

Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes

Sanjay Patel is an animator and artist at Pixar and the author of the acclaimed illustrated books The Little Book of Hindu Gods and Ramayana: Divine Loophole. Emily Haynes is an editor at Chronicle Books.

Namita Gokhale

Namita Gokhale is an author and the co-director of the Jaipur Literary Festival.