2016 south dakota festival of books

2016 SOUTH DAKOTA

Sept. 22 Sioux FallsSept. 22-25 Brookings

Sept. 27 Rapid City

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For more information visit sdbookfestival.com or call (605) 688-6113. Times and presenters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on sdbookfestival.com, twitter.com/sdhumanities, facebook.com/sdhumanities and included in the Festival Survivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Children’s Museum.

4 Mayor’s Welcome 6 SD Humanities Council Welcome 7 Event Locations, Transportation and Parking 8 A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by United Way of the Black Hills, First Bank and Trust and Children’s Museum of South Dakota

9 A Tribute to Fiction Sponsored by AWC Family Foundation, Brookings Public Library and Friends of Brookings Public Library

10 A Tribute to Poetry Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation

11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction Sponsored by Brookings Register and South Dakota Public Broadcasting

12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing Sponsored by City of Brookings and Gerry Berger Law

14 Presenters 24 Schedule of Events30 Exhibitors’ Hall

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South Dakota native Dee Clements created the bronze sculpture (above), inspired by Harvey Dunn’s The Prairie is My Garden. It’s near the entrance to the McCrory Gardens Education and Visitor Center in Brookings. Photo credit: South Dakota State University.

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WELCOME...Festival of Books goers!

AS AN AVID READER and learner, I am honored to welcome you

to Brookings, the host city for the 2016 Festival of Books. Home

to South Dakota State University, education is a core pillar of our com-

munity and we strongly support the festi-

val and the mission of the South Dakota

Humanities Council to celebrate literature,

promote civil conversation and tell stories

that define our great state.

The story of Brookings is one I hope you

explore during your visit. Brookings is a

progressive and growing community with

art experiences, culinary gems and hands-

on activities that connect us to our past and

our future. Historic Downtown Brookings

offers visitors a boutique shopping experi-

ence with urban art in the alleys and culinary delights like Nick’s Ham-

burger Shop on Main Street. The Children’s Museum of South Dakota

was named a “must-see” attraction by the Travel Channel, and the SDSU

Dairy Bar’s cow-to-cone tour shows visitors the process required for their

signature cookies ‘n’ cream. And that’s just the beginning of what you’ll

discover in Brookings. More information about our lodging, restaurants,

attractions and shopping can be found at visitbrookingssd.com.

Again, on behalf of myself, the Brookings City Council, the Brookings

Convention & Visitors Bureau and the entire community — welcome

to Brookings. We invite you to bring your dreams and read more books!

Tim S. Reed Mayor @MayorTimReed

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“FROM DAY ONE, the bond between parent and child is special,”

wrote Rosemary Wells in her book Hand in Hand. As a mom, I love

that quote.

This month it prompted me to think about the bonds between readers and

writers. Reading is not a solitary experience. There’s a constant connection

between the reader and the author we entrust to

take us on a journey. The South Dakota Festi-

val of Books allows us to explore that transfor-

mational relationship. Our goal is to strength-

en those bonds (so many new books, so many

wonderful authors!) and to make tangible those

often-invisible connections.

This year’s festival is an opportunity to meet

poets and scientists writing about the relation-

ship between humans and animals, the rising

crisis with water and the importance of colonial insects. Have a conversa-

tion with a Mideast expert on Making Sense of the New Arab Wars. Enjoy a

beer tasting with the author of The Beer Bible or a conversation with Max

and Ruby creator Rosemary Wells. Experience a film screening and discus-

sion on the preservation of the Lakota language. Converse with six Pulitzer

Prize winners, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the prestigious award.

The festival also encourages emerging writers with workshops on devel-

oping character, plotting a page-turner and writing what you don’t know.

Volga dairy farmer Jerry Nelson wanted to make a book from his years of

columns, and finally found his way to a publisher at the 2014 book festival.

He brought his writings and pitched his idea to the Book Doctors. Jerry’s

book, Dear County Agent Guy, was published May 2016 by Workman. If

you need some tips, find Jerry at the festival.

It’s not too early to start making plans for the 2017 festival in Deadwood

and Rapid City September 21-24. In the meantime, Pulitzer events will be

held this fall, along with other great SDHC events. Visit sdhumanities.org

or download the SDHC program catalog for more information.

We welcome all 70-plus authors in 2016 to strengthen bonds with one an-

other as writers and with readers. At the 10th Anniversary One Book ses-

sion, Leif Enger said, “I never view my book as complete, or finished, until

it’s been read. And then it’s the reader’s book.”

The festival is the place where writers, readers, illustrators, musicians,

cultural organizations, publishers and booksellers can all connect. Together.

And those bonds can’t occur anywhere but in real time.

Sherry DeBoer

Executive Director

South Dakota Humanities Council

JOIN US!BOOKS AND BONDS

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FESTIVAL GUIDELINESPlease abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost or stolen items.

View changes to the schedule and other news at facebook.com/sdhumanities or at twitter.com/sdhumanities and use #sdbookfest when commenting or to view others’ comments.

BRUCE ADEE HONEY FARMS (515 Jay St.)

BROOKINGSBROOKINGS ACTIVITY CENTER

(320 5th Ave.) - Senior Center

BROOKINGS ARTS COUNCIL (524 4th St.) - Community Cultural Center

BROOKINGS CITY COUNTY BUILDING (520 3rd St.)

- Community Room - Council Chambers

BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY (515 3rd St.) - Cooper Room A & B

THE CARROT SEED KITCHEN CO. (312 Main Ave.)

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF SOUTH DAKOTA (521 4th St.)

- Community Room - Party on One - Party on Two

FIFTH STREET GYM (606 5th St.)

FIRST BANK & TRUST (520 6th St.) - Board Room

MCCRORY GARDENS VISITOR CENTER (631 22nd Ave.)

OLD MARKET (424 5th St.)

OLD SANCTUARY (928 4th St.)

SD AG HERITAGE MUSEUM ( 977 11th St.)

SD ART MUSEUM (1036 Medary Ave.) - Auditorium

SDSU CAMPUS• CROTHERS ENGINEERING HALL

(1151 8th St.) - Room 204 • HILTON M. BRIGGS LIBRARY

(1300 N Campus Dr.) - Archives & Special Collections

Reading Room • PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

(1601 University Blvd.) - Fishback Studio Theatre

- Larson Memorial Concert Hall - Roberts Reception Hall • STUDENT UNION (1421 Student Union Ln.) - Hobo Day Gallery & Campanile Room

- Volstorff Ballroom 101

RAPID CITYRAPID CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY (610 Quincy St.)

SIOUX FALLSSIOUXLAND PUBLIC LIBRARIES • RONNING BRANCH (3100 E. 49th St.)• DOWNTOWN BRANCH (200 N. Dakota Ave.)

WASHINGTON PAVILION (301 S Main Ave.) - Belbas Theater - Jerstad Gallery - Mary W. Sommervold Hall - Schulte Black Box Theater - Science Stage - Tribal Art Gallery WHITTIER MIDDLE SCHOOL (930 E. 6th St.) - Auditorium

Festival of Books Event Locations

Stay Connected

TRANSPORTATION For visitor convenience, shuttle buses will run Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. between the downtown area and convenient locations for parking. Purchase tickets in advance at sdbookfestival.com (available by August 1). Tickets must be printed and brought to the bus in order to board.

Shuttle Bus Parking Lots: FIRST BANK & TRUST EAST BRANCH PARKING LOT (Hwy 14/6th St. & 22nd Ave.)

SD AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM PARKING LOT (Medary Ave. & 11th St.)

Free PARKING If you choose to drive your own vehicle, free parking is available in these lots:

72-HOUR LOT (NW of 3rd Ave. & 4th St.)

BROOKINGS ACTIVITY CENTER/BROOKINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY LOT (SE of 5th Ave. & 4th St.)

CENTRAL BUSINESS SUPPLY LOT (SW of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.)

CITY/COUNTY GOVERNMENT LOT (SE of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.)

NAPA AUTO PARTS LOT (NW of 5th Ave. & 3rd St.)

PARK & REC LOT (between 3rd St. & Front St.)

SOUTH END OF MORIARTY LOT (NW of Main Ave. & 6th St.)

SPRINT/SWIFTEL LOT (NW of 5th Ave. & 4th St.)

Visitors may acquire a permit, for free parking in several designated lots, at the Parking Services Office (1351 Medary Ave.) or the University Police Department (1405 Jackrabbit Ave.). Visitors may also use the Hourly Pay Lot on the East side of the Student Union. Parking at the Performing Arts Center (for Friday evening events) is free.

SDSU Parking

Visit sdbookfestival.com for additional parking info and maps.

HAPPY ACCIDENTS Teaching, Learning and Writing

ANDY SHANE DIDN’T like school to begin with, but the class know-it-all, Dolores Starbuckle, made his day even worse by tattling on

him. Twice! Before lunch! Such was the beginning of their beau-tiful friendship.

Andy Shane and Dolores Star-buckle: 4 Books in 1, by Jennifer Richard Jacobson, is the Young Readers One Book South Da-kot a selec t ion for 2016. With the help of sponsors, the South Dakota Humanities Council distr ibuted 5,000 copies of the book across the state, and Jacobson will visit third graders in Brook-ings, Sioux Falls and Rapid City in September to discuss the per-ils of elementary school and the joys of writing.

Jacobson is on familiar ground in the classroom. She began her career as an educator, and later, her students helped jump-start a second career as a writer. “When I was a first grade teacher, I wrote along with my stu-dents,” Jacobson says. “Together we explored the question of what makes fine writing and tried to use the tech-niques we discovered from other au-thors in our own work. I frequently read my work to the students (when it was my turn in the Author’s Chair) and they gave me advice.”

Jacobson completed a children’s novel that year, and although it will never be published, “it kept me on the path, kept me writing,” she says.

“When my daughter was born, I de-cided to try my hand at a writing ca-reer. I wrote articles, books for par-ents and teachers, teacher guides and

emergent readers for first grade read-ing programs — anything that would

give me the time and space to continue trying to break into the children’s field.”

After the birth of her second child, Ja-cobson took a job re-viewing 400 picture books for a company creating reading an-thologies — a task which put her on the fast track to the par-

enting hall of fame. “My children thought I was the greatest,” she says.

“I stayed in my pajamas and read to them all day long.”

More importantly, Jacobson’s sur-vey taught her “to recognize the pat-tern of story, the power of voice, and the tone of modern literature. Learn-ing from published authors is one of the very best ways to learn to write.”

Once the job was completed, Ja-cobson put those insights to work and published her first book, A Net of Stars, about a girl who faces her fears and discovers the sky is truly the only limit.

In addition to writing for young readers, Jacobson leveraged her back-ground as an educator to produce No More ‘I’m Done!’ Fostering Indepen-dent Writers in the Primary Grades, which gives teachers the tools to en-courage budding young authors. The first principle for them applies to all ages. “If you want to be a writer you must sit down and write,” Jacobson says.

Lesson number two might be: don’t get discouraged. “I sent an article to Cosmo in my 20s, and received my first form rejection letter,” she says.

Which worked out well for Andy and Dolores.

Barry Louis Polisar began writing and singing for children in 1975, but many know him from his song, “All I Want is You.” It was used in the opening credits of the film Juno in 2007. The song’s inclusion on the soundtrack was serendipitous — Juno’s director was searching for another title on iTunes when a mistype led him to Polisar’s 1977 recording. “That was a great accident, and it’s brought me a whole new set of fans,” Polisar says.

Polisar wrote his first story just for fun when he was 8 years old. “And you know what? Even though I make my living as a writer I still write for fun,” he says. He’s authored hundreds of songs, poems and children’s books, and though he loves doing so, Polisar never expected to make it his career. “I went to college to be a teacher, and while I was in college I was invited to a school to perform,” Polisar says. “I sang some songs I had written and the kids nearly fell out of their seats with laughter.”

Polisar continues to sing in schools, libraries and art centers throughout the country. He has also performed at The White House, The Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center for the

Performing Arts. His visit to the festival will be part

performance, part author visit as he shares sing-

alongs, story songs, poems and books.

CHILDREN’S/Y.A.

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FICTION

NASHVILLE NOIR

Nashville is more than the Music City these days. It’s an up and coming force in the (fictional) murder business, as well.

Clay Stafford, a Nashville na-tive, helped launch the first “Kill-er Nashville” writers conference in 2006. “We wanted something that would connect writers with readers, but also writers with different writers, and writers with the latest information in the field,” he says.

The last includes not only what’s new in the publishing business, but presentations by local and national law enforce-ment professionals on develop-ments that might one day be the basis for a thriller’s plot twist.

In celebration of its 10th an-niversary, conference alumni collaborated on Killer Nashville Noir: Cold Blooded, an anthol-ogy published in 2015. Stafford contributed a story and edited what he hopes will become an annual offering.

Stafford’s background is in filmmaking, television and writ-ing. His fellow presenters are Anne Perry, “who is historical and mysterious,” according to Stafford, and Jeffery Deaver, “who is mysteriously twisted in sometimes the most paranoid of thriller ways. I think the panel together will look at our differ-ent writing styles, and how we ap-proach the initial idea, but also the commonali-ties that are vital for all writers in all media.”

THE TITLE CAME to Jane Smiley in the fall of 2009.

“The Last Hundred Years” would follow a single family, year by year, through a cen-tury of American history.

Six years later, Smiley had finished her grand trilogy of an Iowa farm family rooted in the Great Plains but scattered across the generations to participate in the country’s most significant events.

The first installment, Some Luck, is the 2016 One Book South Dakota. Smi-ley will reflect on the novel and head-line the state’s Pulitzer Prize Centen-nial Campfires celebration.

Some Luck begins in 1920 and intro-duces readers to Walter and Rosanna Langdon, who farm near Denby, Iowa. The book covers 33 years in which we watch the fictional family grow and en-counter the real-life challenges of the 20th century, including the steady de-cline of family farms through the Great Depression, the fear of World War II and the uncertainty of the Red Scare.

Smiley has shown great diversity as a writer, but perhaps her greatest success has come in writing about the Plains.Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1992. It’s a retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear involving an Iowa landowner and the strife caused when he tries to divide his property among his daughters.

Perhaps that success is a ref lection of the closeness Smiley forged with the Midwest. She moved to Iowa City in 1972 to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa, and then taught English at Iowa State University in Ames from 1981 to 1996. That back-ground helped her place the Langdons.

“If they were someplace like Los An-geles they would never go anywhere,” Smiley says. “Farm families have an interesting and long history. There’s always the question of who’s going to inherit the land and how many people can stay on the farm. In a lot of cases, somebody stays and many people leave, so they go off to different places. I felt my job was more to set up the charac-ters as babies and watch them head out into the world.”

While Walter and Rosanna toil on the farm, eldest son Frank becomes a snip-er in World War II. His brother, Joey, stays to farm and experiment with seed hybrids and fertilization. The family also encounters intriguing historical characters like Billy Sunday, the 19th century professional baseball player who became one of the most influential evangelists of the 20th century.

Some Luck ends in 1953 with a death that shakes the entire family, but there’s no waiting to learn what happens next. The next two volumes, Early Warning and Golden Age, both appeared in 2015.

Finding Luck in the Plains


POETRYPoetry for All

TE D KO O SE R W RO T E much of his poetry while he worked as a life insurance executive. “I knew very ear-ly in life that I would never be able to

make a living as a poet, and that if I wanted to support myself and a fam-ily I would need to f ind a job that wouldn’t take ev-ery ounce of ener-gy I had, so I’d be able to write in my spare time,” Koos-er says. “I got up early every morn-ing, sometimes at 5, somet imes at 4:30, and did my writ ing before it was time to get dressed for work.”

Because he worked with people who didn’t often read poetry, his po-ems have tried to reach others like them. He imagines a reader, their limitations — educational and liter-ary — and chooses words and ideas that might fill their expectations. “For example, if I were to put King Lear in a poem, I could expect that a limited number of people would know who he was, and the rest of the readers would be excluded,” Kooser says. “But if within the bounds of the poem I not only mentioned him but explained, briefly, who King Lear was, I would then include more readers.”

Kooser gained a broad audience through this method of imagination, publishing over 30 books and chap-books. His most recent poetry col-lection, Splitting an Order, appeared in 2014. He’s written three children’s books as well.

Kooser was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006, received the Pu-litzer Prize for Poetry in 2005 and ed-

its a weekly column called “American Life in Poetry.” It’s published in over 150 newspapers and has millions of readers online. Since the column is free to any newspaper, website or in-

dividual, it appears in many small pa-pers that couldn’t normally afford it.

“My mission is to show people that poetry can be fun to read and doesn’t necessarily have to be difficult and ob-scure,” he says.

Kooser is now retired from insur-ance and w r it es f rom an acreage near Garland, Ne-braska. He teach-es half time at the

University of Nebraska and believes students learn as much from the po-ems they don’t like as the ones they do. His own poetic ideas arise dur-ing the writing process. “As I write in my journal every morning, some-thing may surface that feels as if it has potential, and I’ll follow it through,” Kooser says. “I have found that it isn’t productive to force a poem to fit around an idea, so I rarely have an idea as we usually think of them, such as, ‘Oh, I’m going to write a poem about the hazards of agricul-tural chemicals.’ But if I happen to be writing about something, perhaps de-scribing a flower, my ideas about ag chemicals might show up.”

He believes poetry isn’t of much importance to the daily lives of many people, but once introduced to its pleasures they’ll want more. “All of us carry lyrics from songs around in our heads, partly because they pro-vide words we couldn’t come up with ourselves, and poetry can provide that same service,” he says.

WRITING AND HEALINGMore than 1.5 million women in the U.S. are affected by infertility, which can lead to a whirlwind of emotions. Barbara Duffey explored her own frustration at the inability to conceive when writing the poems collected in Simple Machines.

“I realized I had this metaphor in my mind that the body was like a machine. I didn’t understand why if I didn’t have a certain input, I wouldn’t get a certain output,” Duffey says. “Was it that this was a bad metaphor or was it that I was a broken machine?”

Duffey began writing Simple Machines in 2010. She found comfort in the process of using machines as a metaphor for the body and to help write the poems. “I ended up coming to the conclusion that all of this is just about probabilities. That the probability that it will happen for me is the probability that it will happen to anyone suffering from infertility and getting the assisted technologies we were getting,” Duffey says. “Once it wasn’t personal any more and it was just this random chance, I was able to deal with it better.”

Eventually Duffey did get pregnant. And while she doesn’t know how she would have felt had the treatments not worked, writing made her feel like she had more control over the process. “And it worked at the same time, so I was really lucky.”

Duffey is an assistant professor of English at Dakota Wesleyan University. She lives in Mitchell with her husband and 4-year-old son.

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FULL CIRCLE

NON-FICTION

At the 2014 Festival of Books, Brookings County writer Jerry Nelson attended Pitchapalooza, an idea generating session led by The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry. Nelson’s autobiographical pitch about a dairy farmer turned successful regional newspaper columnist didn’t win, but the Book Doctors were sufficiently intrigued. They put Nelson in touch with Work-man Publishing in New York, which recently released Nelson’s first book, Dear County Agent Guy, a collection of Nelson’s best columns, which are written under the same title. Nelson’s writing career began in the wet summer of 1996, when he penned a tongue-in-cheek letter to the local Extension agent that addressed quandaries like eradicating cattails and jet skis from corn. His columns now appear in newspapers and maga-zines throughout the Midwest.

That Nelson is even here to share his rural wisdom is miracu-lous. One day his father found him floating face-up in the under-ground manure pit, overcome by hydrogen sulfide. He went home after six weeks in the hospital, surprising his wife, doctors and nurses who didn’t expect him to survive.

Lucky for us, he did. How else would we know that a calf puller isn’t a viable option during childbirth?

Understanding Middle Eastern Tumult

AREVOLUTION IN Tu-nisia in December of 2010 is seen today as the beginning of the Arab Spring, a series of riots, revolts and protests that

swept through the Arab world. Marc Lynch wrote about the upheaval in The Arab Uprising, which hit shelves in the spring of 2012, just as the wave of protests began to fade. Lynch de-scribed the revolutionary change and

the prospects for democracy, though he continued to harbor doubts about Syr-ia. That book ended with the hope that the Arab Spring would bring long-term fundamental changes to the region, yet warned that many regimes would not easily relinquish power.

The latter has proven true. Egypt’s revolution resulted in a military coup. Yemen is the setting of a proxy war and Syria has descended into a catastroph-ic civil war from which recovery could take at least a generation. Lynch’s lat-est book, The New Arab Wars: Anar-chy and Uprising in the Middle East, seeks to explain why it all happened and where the world goes from here.

Lynch is a professor of political sci-ence and international affairs at George Washington University. He is also the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-

national Peace. He first became inter-ested in the Middle East during a sum-mer college internship in the 1980s, in which he worked on U.S. policy to-wards the war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Contra affair. He started studying Arabic and traveled to Egypt in 1991.

Working among politicians and pol-icy makers in the nation’s capital has shown Lynch the profound discon-nect between Washington insiders and the rest of America regarding what to

do about strife in the Middle East. “I do think there is a pro-found skepticism about the Middle East across the coun-try these days,” Lynch says. “The invasion and occupation of Iraq soured many Ameri-cans on the idea of interven-tion in the region, and the rise

of ISIS and fail-ures of the Arab upr isings have only compounded that skepticism. In Washington (out-side of the Obama administration, at least) there’s much greater enthusiasm

for intervention in Syria and a more ag-gressive policy across the Middle East than there is outside the Beltway.”

For many Americans, keeping track of the players in a conf lict occurring halfway around the world may seem pointless. But Lynch argues that it’s important for everyone in the United States to cultivate a better understand-ing of what’s happening in the Middle East. “There’s no way to really insulate the United States or Americans from what happens there, whether it is ji-hadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS or refugee flows or the price of oil,” he says. “It’s also important for a well-in-formed public to act as a check on the interventionist preferences of the for-eign policy community.”


EXPANDING BORDERS

Writers’ Support

Most writers have heard the ad-vice, “Write what you know.” Patrick Hicks disagrees. Hicks, a poet, author and professor of writing at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, will present a work-shop called “Writing What You

Don’t Know: Set-ting and Character Development.”

The workshop explores what it means to bring people and places into writing that might not other-wise be there. “If good writing is

empathetic — and I believe that it is — your understanding of the world increases when you move beyond the comfort zone of your usual ideas. Writing about what you don’t know almost always means writing about the world be-yond you,” Hicks explains.

And he should know. His first novel, The Commandant of Lubi-zec, explored the Holocaust and a fictional mass executioner. And his latest collection of short stories, The Collector of Names, examines topics like a present day terrorist bombing, a burn unit and an un-popular teenage girl. He carefully researched both books, but did not have first hand experience.

“When I was starting off, most of my fiction was veiled autobi-ography, and it was only when I cut myself out as a character that I found the freedom to live inside other characters,” Hicks says. “Writing what I don’t know has in-troduced me to people and places that I might never have known otherwise. It’s certainly expanded the borders of my own life, and I believe it can be the same for others.”

PERHAPS NO ONE loves books more than Michael Dirda. He’s reviewed them for the Washington Post for almost 40 years and won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in

1993. But he doesn’t consider himself a critic — he’s an enthusiast. “I hate any sort of reviewers who sound supe-rior or condescending. I know I occa-sionally write about obscure sounding books, but I try to do so in a way to say these may not be books you’ve heard of, but you might like them if you try them,” Dirda says. “So, I’m a middle man. I’ve always thought it was an im-portant function as someone who can introduce readers to all kinds of books that they otherwise might not know about.”

As part of this bibliophilic mission, Dirda contributed a weekly essay to the online magazine The American Scholar over the course of a year. The editor gave no restrictions, so Dirda reflected on his career, daily life and the writers he loves. “[The essays] were kind of a treat to do because I wrote them fast and they were very personal,” Dirda says. “Normally my journalism isn’t personal in this way. It might have occasional touches of it, but these were very auto-biographical and allowed me to kind of indulge myself a bit.” He compiled the essays into his lat-est book, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books, released in 2015.

Dirda writes about growing up in the working class steel t ow n of L o r a i n , Ohio, where “Sun-day best” wasn’t just a phrase. “Un-l e s s t h e y we r e helping a relative

with some big, dirty project, come Sunday my father and mother always wore something ‘dressy,’ as did their sullen children, just in case relatives came calling in the afternoon,” he explains. Dirda’s father was a steel-worker — tough, self-reliant and, to his childish eyes, almost heroic. His mother was a homemaker. “Nobody in my family read books. I think my father quit school at 16, but my mother taught me to read when I was little,” Dirda says. He found it to be an escape from the realities of a poor life, and read for adventure and excitement. He still believes that’s why we read.

Dirda counts a wide range of in-terests, because he doesn’t like to be bored. Many are reflected in his enor-mous book collection. “I have a house full of books. I have a storage unit of books. I have too many books. Too many are in boxes,” he laments. He likes the book as an object — a physi-cal artifact — and thinks reading on screens reduces everything to the same level. “If you read a hard boiled mystery novel in a cheap paperback with a leggy blonde on the cover, that gives you a slightly different experi-

ence. In the same way, you might want to read Henry James in

a very stately, august New York edition appropriate for Henry James.” And Dirda thinks books on shelves become a pres-

ence in your life. “You can look at them and see

the person you’ve b e e n . Yo u

can see the person you want to be.”

Living and Loving Books

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WRITING AND teaching have been the lifework of Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Her stories come from childhood experi-ences on the Rosebud

Reservation. Sneve attended BIA day schools and g radu-ated from St. Mary’s High School for In-dian Girls in Spring-field. She then studied at South Dakota State University in Brook-ings, graduating in 1954 and earning a master’s in education in 1969. When she ret i red f rom teach-ing and counseling in Rapid City in 1995, it created more time for writing.

Sneve has written more than 25 books, numerous short stories, ar-ticles and poems meant to shine a positive and accurate light on Native Americans. “I think my experience working with both Native and non Na-tive children gave me a little better in-sight into how there are cultural dif-ferences even now,” she says.

Her most recent book, Sioux Wom-en: Traditionally Sacred, shows how important Native women are to their tr ibes, communities and families. She begins with the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, a legendary fig-ure who considered women sacred be-cause they gave life to the tribe. Al-though they did not have an active voice in tribal council, women still had influence. “Sioux men could have more than one wife, and often did,” Sneve says. “Women could persuade the men how they would like things to be. It’s kind of a silent influence, but it’s always been there.”

Sioux Women includes photos of early Native women, though they were

difficult to find. “There just aren’t that many,” Sneve laments. “When Eu-ropeans first contacted the tribes it was men that did it, so they focused on the men of the tribe and the wom-en were in the background. They as-sumed women didn’t have much of a

role.” More recent de-pictions of “women warriors” were easier to obtain — like Mar-cella LeBeau, an army nurse in World War II, or writer and scholar Elizabeth Cook Lynn.

“She’s been really ac-tive in the Rapid City community to pro -mote Native Ameri-can affairs. It has of-ten led to controversy, but she goes right for it,” Sneve says.

Lower prof ile women aren’t ab-sent from her story. “Women have always worked together in raising children and taking care of families ... And women adapted easier to res-ervation life because their role didn’t change that much.” They often be-came their family’s steadying center

— especially after the introduction of alcohol, which Sneve says has been disastrous for many. “I tell how Na-tive women have realized they are go-ing to have to take care of their own kind. So we have organizations like the White Buffalo Calf Woman Soci-ety at Rosebud that watches over and offers shelter to abused women and children. They’re offering counsel-ing, treatment and benefits that wom-en wouldn’t be able to have unless they did it for themselves,” she explains.

Sneve hopes that when young Na-tive girls read her book they’re in-spired to tell their own stories. “We still need Native American writers, so I’m always hopeful that what I do en-courages that.”

Women Warriors SEEKING HUGH GLASS

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Last winter’s blockbuster movie The Revenant brought renewed attention to the story of frontiers-man Hugh Glass and his near-fatal encounter with a grizzly bear near present-day Lemmon in 1823. Scholars may argue the movie’s historical merits — and it did take liberties with the Glass story — but Jim McLaird says people have been taking liberties since the first time the tale was retold.

McLaird, a retired professor of history at Dakota Wesleyan Uni-versity in Mitchell, is the author of Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor. He says that separating fact from fiction in order to reveal the true man and his harrowing ordeal is a daunting task. “There is no reliable eyewitness testimony,” McLaird says. “All information is second- and third-hand, and almost always embellished by a storyteller. Even the story purportedly told by Hugh Glass was recorded third-hand by a professional writer who compared it to the Robinson Crusoe tale. Numerous writers have retold the story with varying interpretations and details, a process that contin-ues to this day.”

When seen through the prism of nearly 200 years of embellishment, it’s easier to accept The Revenant more as a fictional depiction than a biopic. Still, moviegoers seeking more may find answers in McLaird’s book. “I am always glad when historical films are released, even though they rarely depict events accurately,” he says. “They can simply be enjoyed as dramatic productions, but they usually cause viewers to ask ques-tions and attempt to learn a little more concerning what actually occurred.”

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PRESENTERSKEN ALVINE promotes and produces cartoons for business and education and children’s safety books for the state of

South Dakota. Alvine has also taught cartooning for the South Dakota Artists in Residence program. His most recent work is the historical coloring book Taming the Prairie.

JEFF ALWORTH writes about beer, politics and religion. In 2015 he published The Beer Bible and Cider Made Simple. Alworth also writes about beer at his blog, Beervana.blogspot.com, and the online magazine All About Beer. He co-hosts the Beervana Podcast.

WILLIAM ANDERSON is the author of 25 books, including M is for Mount Rushmore and The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Anderson lives in Michigan but has roots in South Dakota, where his ancestors pioneered in 1880.

ANN BAUSUM writes about history for readers of all ages, focusing on under-told stories and issues of social justice. Her most recent title, Stonewall, is among the first nonfiction books to introduce teens to gay rights history.

SANDRA BRANNAN has created a mystery thriller series around Liv Bergen, who embodies the spirit of South Dakota and who, like Brannan, works in the mining business. Her most recent book is Ja-cob’s Descent, the sixth in the series.

JOHN BRANT began working for Run-ners World in 1982. He is the author of Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America’s Greatest Mara-thon, as well as two new books: The Boy Who Runs and My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life (with Frank Shorter). He lives in Portland, Oregon.

CHRIS BROWNE is a born cartoonist. His father, Dik Browne, created the com-ic strips Hi and Lois and Hägar the Hor-rible. Chris Browne contributed to Hägar from its beginning in 1972 and took it over upon his father’s death. His first children’s book, The Monster Who Ate the State, came out in 2014.

ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the author of 16 novels, including A Small Hotel, Hell and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb se-ries. He is also the author of six short story collections, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Butler teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

RON CAPPS is the founder and direc-tor of the Veterans Writing Project, a non-profit that provides no-cost writing semi-nars for veterans and their families. He served 25 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, and is also a retired Foreign Ser-vice officer for the Department of State.

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CHUCK CECIL worked 22 years at South Dakota State University, as Direc-tor of Development and Assistant to the President, before establishing a chain of 11 weekly newspapers. Cecil has written 21 books, most recently Prohibition in South Dakota, and writes a weekly col-umn for the Brookings Register.

MATTHEW CECIL is a widely-ac-claimed expert on J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, particularly its relationships with journal-ists, and has written Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate. Cecil is dean of the Col-lege of Arts and Humanities at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN earned the Pu-litzer Prize for international reporting in 1981 for her dispatches about civil wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatema-la. She lived and worked throughout Lat-

in America for nearly 20 years, as well as in New York and Washington, D.C. Christian has published two books, Before Lewis and Clark and Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family.

JEFFERY DEAVER is a former jour-nalist, folksinger, attorney and author. His book A Maiden’s Grave became an HBO movie, and his novel The Bone Col-lector was a feature release from Univer-sal Pictures. His most recent publication, The Steel Kiss, is the 12th Lincoln Rhyme thriller.

Winner of the 1988 National Book Award for his novel Paris Trout, PETE DEXTER also wrote for newspapers, including the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacra-mento Bee, and compiled many of his columns into the book Paper Trails. Dex-ter now splits his time between Washing-ton state and a house in the desert.

LAWRENCE J. DIGGS has produced documentaries, written books and made presentations around the world. He founded The International Vinegar Muse-

um in South Dakota and created a nation-al emergency medical system in Burkina Faso. Diggs teaches poetry in the state’s prisons, which led to the recent publica-tion of Prose and Cons.

MICHAEL DIRDA, a Pulitzer Prize-win-ning book columnist for The Washington Post, is the author of Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books. He is a frequent contributor to sev-eral literary journals and periodicals, as well as an occasional lecturer and teacher.

SUE DOEDEN hosts Good Food, Good Life 365 on Lakeland Public Televi-sion and is a certified Integrative Nutrition

Health Coach. The bees in her backyard hives provid-ed all the honey needed to create the recipes in her cookbook, Homemade with Honey. Doeden lives in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Born and raised on the Rosebud Reser-vation, VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE has Sioux and Ponca heritage. Her books include The Trickster and the Troll, Completing the Circle and, most re-cently, Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred.

BARBARA DUFFEY is the author of the full-length poetry collections Simple Machines and I Might Be Mistaken. She teaches English at Dakota Wesleyan Uni-versity in Mitchell.

BRIAN FAGAN began his career at the National Museum of Zambia, then taught anthropology at the University of Califor-nia, Santa Barbara. Fagan communicates archaeolo-gy and history through his work, including four books on ancient climate. His latest, The Intimate Bond, examines the relation-ship between humans and animals.

TERI FINNEMAN is the author of Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s-2000s. A North Dakota native, Finneman teaches journalism at South Dakota State University. Her research fo-cuses on news coverage of first ladies and women politicians.


JAY FISHBACK and PAUL V. FISH-BACK founded Northern Voyage Pro-ductions. Their documentary Our Own Words features the Oak Lake Tribal Writ-ers Society, which has celebrated Ameri-can Indian Cultures for over 20 years. Jay, a Sante Fe University graduate, uses dy-namic photography and videography to tell stories with beauty and rawness. Paul, a University of Colorado graduate, be-lieves film is the perfect medium to broad-en perspectives.

ROB FLEDER was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and editor of Sports Il-lustrated Books. He worked with celebrat-ed authors to produce Damn Yankees, a collection of original essays about the New York Yankees.

MARTIN JOHN GARHART, author of Learning to Draw – Drawing to Learn, has been an artist for 40 years. His works reside in more than 40 institutions, includ-ing the British Museum, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. He splits his time between the Black Hills and Pow-ell, Wyoming.

DEBORAH GEWERTZ is a profes-sor of anthropology at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and FRED-ERICK ERRINGTON is an emeritus anthropology professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. They have done research in Papua New Guinea, Indone-sia’s West Sumatra and Montana, focus-ing on ethnohistory, sociocultural change, class formation, shifting foodways and global encounters. They have written sev-en books, most recently Cheap Meat and The Noodle Narratives.

KATHERINE HANNIGAN is the au-thor of Ida B…And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Pos-sibly) Save the World, as well as True (…Sort Of), a California Young Reader Award nominee. She has also written and illustrated Emmaline and the Bunny and 2016’s Dirt + Water = Mud.

At age 12, APRIL HENRY sent a story about a 6-foot-tall frog who loved pea-nut butter to children’s author Roald Dahl,

who had it published in a children’s maga-zine. As an adult, Henry has published 20

mysteries and thrillers for teens and adults, includ-ing 2016’s The Girl I Used to Be. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

PATRICK HICKS is the author of 10 books of poetry and fiction, including The Collector of Names, Adoptable, This Lon-don and The Commandant of Lubizec. He is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University and a faculty member at the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

SAM HURST worked many years for NBC News. Upon retirement, he moved to the Black Hills, where he owned a buffa-lo ranch and produced independent doc-umentaries. Rattlesnake Under His Hat, his biography of Reptile Gardens founder Earl Brockelsby, paints a vivid portrait of Brockelsby’s life and his influence on west-ern tourism.

PAUL ANDREW HUTTON, a distin-guished professor at the University of New Mex-ico, is a cultural historian, author, documentary film writer and television per-sonality. His most recent book is The Apache Wars.

JENNIFER RICHARD JACOBSON is the author of the 2016 Young Readers One Book South Dakota, Andy Shane and Dolores Starbuckle: 4 Books in 1, il-lustrated by Abby Carter. She has written several books for children and young adults. Jacobson lives in Maine.

MARILYN JOHNSON’s most recent book is Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble. She also wrote The Dead Beat, about the world of obituary writers and readers, and This Book Is Overdue, about the challeng-es facing libraries in the digital age.

ALPHONSE KEASLEY found his path to authorship as a Fulbright Scholar work-ing with the Africa Institute of South Afri-ca in Pretoria. Initially, he wrote about his students’ encounters with the African phi-losophy of Ubuntu. Keasley has since co-

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edited Building Peace from Within and Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies.

A two-time United States Poet Laureate, TED KOOSER is the author of 14 poetry collections, including Delights and Shad-ows, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. He writes plays, fiction, personal essays and literary criticism, and has published three children’s books.

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER attend-ed Stanford University until he was kicked out for radical activities. He logged timber, worked construction, tried journalism and researched child development before be-coming an author. The 15th book in his Cork O’Connor mystery series, Manitou Canyon, comes out in September.

BRIAN LAIDLAW is a poet-troubadour from the Twin Cities. He has released the poetry col-lections Amoratorium and The Stuntman, each of which includes a companion album of original music. Laidlaw tours national-ly and internationally as a folksinger, and recently joined the Creative Writing Ph.D. program at the University of Denver.

DIRK LAMMERS chronicled the New York Mets’ 50-year quest for the team’s first no-hitter on his blog NoNoHitters.com. This year, he combined his research with dozens of interviews to create Base-ball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Cen-tury of Pitching’s Greatest Feats. Lam-mers has spent over two decades writing for the Associated Press and the Tampa Tribune.

JANICE LAW founded the American Women Writers National Museum to showcase America’s top-tier women writ-ers. Law is a retired Texas criminal court judge, a 14-year print journalist, a travel columnist and the author of six books, in-cluding 2015’s American Evita: Lurleen Wallace.

NANCY LOSACKER and NORMA WILSON began collaborating on mo-saics and poems in 2008. Their new book, Rivers, Wings & Sky, brings together for

the first time all 18 of their collaborations. Losacker’s studio and home are in Vermil-lion, while Wilson lives on a prairie bluff northwest of town.

MIKE LOWERY, cre-ator of the Doodle Adven-tures series, is an illustra-tor whose work appears in greeting cards, children’s books and the Kids Awe-some Activity Calendar. He is a Professor of Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.

CHARLES LUDEN began reading and printing poetry as a student at Augusta-na College. He moved to San Francisco, where he read at City Lights Poets The-ater. Returning to Sioux Falls, he worked as a chemist at the EROS Data Center and continued writing and reading poet-ry. Luden’s most recent collection is 2015’s Blue Thirsty.

MARC LYNCH is professor of politi-cal science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is the founder and director of the Project on Middle East Political Science and a con-tributing editor at the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. His latest book is The New Arab Wars.

FREYA MANFRED is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle and Speak, Mother. Her sons, visual artists Nicholas Bly Pope and Ethan Rowan Pope, are the subjects of her second memoir, Raising Twins: A True Life Adventure.

JAMES MCLAIRD taught history at Dakota Wesleyan University for 37 years. His Calamity Jane: the Woman and the Legend was named Best Non-Fiction Book Published in 2005 by Westerners International. McLaird’s latest book is Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor.

JOHN E. MILLER is a writer and a historian of recent American history. He taught for almost three decades at South Dakota State University and has written

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seven books, including three volumes on Laura Ingalls Wilder. His most recent books are Small-Town Dreams and First We Imagine.

JERRY NELSON lives near Volga on the farm that his great-grandfather home-steaded in the 1880s. Daily life provided fodder for a weekly newspaper column,

“Dear County Agent Guy,” which is now a book of the same name.

S.D. NELSON is the author and illus-trator of numerous children’s books, in-cluding 2016’s Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People. A resident of Flagstaff, Arizona, Nelson uses acrylic paint to create a contemporary interpre-tation of traditional Lakota images.

ELISE PARSLEY’s debut picture book, If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DON’T! earned a spot on the New York Times bestseller list. She has since released a second book and has a third in the works. She lives in Beresford.

ANNE PERRY is the au-thor of more than 50 novels, with two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels and the Thomas Pitt novels. A native of London, Perry lives in Scotland.

BARRY LOUIS POLISAR writes books for children, including Don’t Do That and Something Fishy. His songs have been featured on Sesame Street and in TV commercials. He sang his “All I Want is You” over the opening credits of the Academy Award-winning film Juno.

FRANK POMMERSHEIM writes about Indian law and serves on a number of tribal appellate courts. Those experi-ences led to his most recent book, Tribal Justice: 25 Years as a Tribal Appellate Jus-tice. He teaches at the University of South Dakota School of Law.

THOMAS POPE, a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, worked for 30 years as a professional screenwriter. His book Good Scripts, Bad

Scripts analyzes 25 of the best and worst scripts in Hollywood.

DELPHINE RED SHIRT grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She holds a master’s in creative writing from Wesley-an University in Middleton, Connecticut and a doctorate in American Indian stud-ies from the University of Arizona. Her books include Bead on an Anthill and the forthcoming George Sword’s Warrior Narratives.

South Dakota Poet Laureate LEE ANN RORIPAUGH is the author of four vol-umes of poetry: Dandarians, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Year of the Snake and Beyond Heart Mountain. She is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as direc-tor of creative writing and editor-in-chief of South Dakota Review.

MATTHEW WYNN SIVILS is a pro-fessor of English at Iowa State University, He is the author or editor of eight books,

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including an edition of Paul L. Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves and American Environmental Fiction, 1782–1847.

JANE SMILEY is the author of A Thou-sand Acres, which was awarded the Pu-litzer Prize, and most recently, The Last Hundred Years trilogy; its opening book, Some Luck, is the 2016 One Book South Dakota. She also authored five works of nonfiction, a young adult series and the picture book Twenty Yawns. She lives in Northern California.

CLAY STAFFORD has sold more than 1.5 million books, most re-cently editing the anthol-ogy Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded. Stafford has taught at several uni-versities and co-designed the Miami-Dade film program.

CHRISTINE STEWART-NUÑEZ is fueled by painting and sculpture, interna-tional travel, medical science, world histo-ry and tensions in contemporary culture. She is the author of several poetry collec-tions, most recently Untrussed.

T. J. STILES is the author of The First Ty-coon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vander-bilt, winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the 2010 Pulit-zer Prize in Biography, and Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Histo-ry. Stiles lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.

J. RYAN STRADAL is the author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest. A Min-nesota native, Stradal lives in Los Angeles, where he is an editor at Unnamed Press and The Nervous Breakdown and co-producer and host of the literary/culinary series Hot Dish.

FAITH SULLIVAN is the author of sev-en award-winning novels, including Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse and Gardenias. She is a champion of literary culture and her fellow writers, and has visited hun-dreds of book clubs. Sullivan lives in Min-neapolis with her husband, Dan.

JESS WALTER has written six novels, one book of short stories and one nonfic-tion book. His most recent books include the short story collection We Live in Water and the novel Beautiful Ruins. Walter lives with his wife Anne and their three children in Spokane, Washington.

ROSEMARY WELLS is perhaps best known for the Max and Ruby books, which have been adapted for an animat-ed children’s TV series. Wells has won nu-merous awards, including a Caldecott Honor for 2001’s Goodnight, Max. She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

JERRY WILSON was born west of the Cimarron River in Oklahoma, near the homesteads two of his great-grandfa-thers claimed in the 1892 Run into Chey-enne Arapaho land, an event featured in his latest novel, Across the Cimarron. He and his wife live in a geo-solar house they built on a bluff near Vermillion.

In Fire Season, MILES WILSON draws on his three seasons with the Dalton Hot-shots, a U.S. Forest Service Interregional Fire Crew based in California. Wilson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Tex-as State University.

STEVEN WINGATE’s books include the short story collection Wife-shopping and the prose poem collection Thir-ty One Octets: Incanta-tions and Meditations. He teaches creative writing, film and digi-tal media at South Dakota State University.

MARK L. WINSTON is recognized as the world’s leading expert on bees and pollination. A founding faculty member of the Banff Centre’s Science Communi-cation program, he authored Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive.

ROBERT E. WRIGHT is the author or co-author of 17 books and hundreds of shorter publications. His most recent book, Little Business on the Prairie, ex-amines entrepreneurship in South Dako-ta. Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Po-litical Economy at Augustana University in Sioux Falls.

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Washington Pavilion Siouxland Public Libraries

Belbas Theater

Schulte Black Box Theater

Science Stage JerstadGallery

Tribal Art Gallery

Ronning Branch

Downtown Library

10 – 10:45 am

I'm Not Kid-ding: Stories & Songs - Barry Louis Polisar

Stubby the War Dog & His Favorite Doughboy - Ann Bausum

Drawing Slimy Space Slugs and Other Creatures - Mike Lowery

How the Pio-neers Tamed the Prairie - Ken Alvine

Starry Skies: The Lakota Way of Seeing the Night - S.D. Nelson

How Process Leads to Picture Books - Katherine Hannigan

11 – 11:45 am

I'm Not Kid-ding: Stories & Songs - Barry Louis Polisar

Fascinating Facts: Researching and Writing Books - William Anderson

Creating the Monster Who Ate the State - Chris Browne

Making His-tory Fun with Capitol Cat & Watch Dog - Janice Law

I Am a Man: Standing Bear of the Ponca - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Magnolia Says DON'T - Elise Parsley

12:30 – 1:15 pm

Labor Fights, Civil Rights and the Death of Martin Luther King - Ann Bausum

Drawing Slimy Space Slugs and Other Creatures - Mike Lowery


How the Pioneers Tamed the Prairie - Ken Alvine

1:30 – 2:15 pm

Fascinating Facts: Researching and Writing Books - William Anderson

Creating the Monster Who Ate the State - Chris Browne

Writing + Drawing = Sto-ries - Katherine Hannigan

I'm Not Kidding: Stories & Songs - Barry Louis Polisar

YOUNG READERS FESTIVAL EVENTS For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival, call Jennifer Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715. To schedule class visits, call the Washington Pavilion, (605) 367-6000 or the Children’s Museum of South Dakota, (605) 692-6700.

THURSDAY SPECIAL EVENTS 4:30-5:30 p.m. – Washington Pavilion Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Sioux Falls – Young Readers One Book Keynote – Jennifer Richard Jacobson and Ted Kooser

5:30-6:30 p.m. – Children’s Museum of South Dakota Community Room, Brookings – Booking Up Our Kids – Rosemary Wells

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 215:30-6:30 p.m. – Whittier Middle School Auditorium, Sioux Falls – Booking Up Our Kids – Rosemary Wells

Events in grid below take place in Sioux Falls.THURSDAY, Sept. 22

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The South Dakota Humanities Council distributed 5,000 copies of Jennifer Richard Jacobson’s Andy Shane and Dolores Starbuckle four-in-one book se-ries to this fall’s third-grade students across South Dakota in advance of the 2016 Young Readers South Dakota Festival of Books.

Students from the following school districts re-ceived copies of the book:

• Brookings• Canton• Deubrook Area• Milbank• Pipestone (MN)

• Rapid City• Sioux Falls• Vermillion• Watertown

Children’s Museum of South Dakota

Party on Two Community Room Party on One

10 – 10:45 am

Fascinating Facts: Researching and Writ-ing Books - William Anderson

Stubby the War Dog & His Favorite Doughboy - Ann Bausum

Creating The Monster Who Ate the State - Chris Browne

11 – 11:45 am

I Am a Man: Standing Bear of the Ponca - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve



12:30 – 1:15 pm

Fascinating Facts: Researching and Writ-ing Books - William Anderson

I'm Not Kidding: Stories & Songs - Barry Louis Polisar

Creating The Monster Who Ate the State - Chris Browne

1:30 – 2:15 pm

Starry Skies: The Lakota Way of See-ing the Night - S.D. Nelson

How Process Leads to Pictures - Katherine Hannigan


Events in grid below take place in Brookings.

FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENTS 4-5 p.m. – Children’s Museum of South Dakota Community Room, Brookings – Young Readers One Book Keynote – Jennifer Richard Jacobson

FRIDAY, Sept. 23

TUESDAY, Sept. 275:30 p.m. – Rapid City Public Library – Young Readers One Book Keynote – Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Young Readers One Book

Free parking is available across the street from the Children’s Museum entrance and along Fifth Ave. and Fifth St., north of the Museum.


SDSU Student Union SDSU Briggs Library

SD Ag Heritage Museum

SD Art Museum Old Sanctuary Brookings Arts Council

Hobo Day Gallery & Campanile Room

Volstorff Ballroom 101A

Archives & Special Collections

Reading Room

Auditorium Community Cultural Center

10 – 10:45 am

The West in Myth, History & Movies - Tom Pope

Wicked Problems in Peace Education - Al-phonse Keasley (10:30-11:15) Conserving the

Land, Writing the Land - Jerry Wilson with Carter Johnson11 – 11:45

amTelling the Story of a Complicated Man: The Earl Brockelsby Biography - Sam Hurst

Readings by Winners of the Veterans Writing Award - Ron Capps

12 – 12:45 pm

The Role of the Humanities in Public Life - SDHC Board Members Eric Abrahamson, Russell McKnight, Julie Moore & Tamara St. John

Literary Lunch: The Science of Food and Drink – Enjoy Steak Salad & German Ale with Sue Doeden (Cooking Demon-stration) & Jeff Alworth (Beer Facts). Catered by Children’s Museum of South Dakota. TICKET REQUIRED ($25)

1 – 1:45 pm

Poetry and Autism: Helping Students Create - Brian Laidlaw

J. Edgar Hoover's PR Men - Matt Cecil

Cultivating Creativ-ity: First We Imagine - John Miller(1:30-2:15) Water & Humanity:

A Profound & Ever-Changing Relationship - Brian Fagan2 – 2:45

pmErasing Imaginary Lines: Us-ing Books to Catalyze Social Change - Lawrence Diggs

Political Marriages: True Love or Mutual Accom-modation? - Janice Law

The Sketch Book & the Journal - Martin Garhart(2:30-3:15) Paul L. Errington:

Pioneering Sustainability on the Plains - Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz & Matthew Wynn Sivils

3 – 4 pm Stonewall Stories: Bringing the History of the Gay Rights Movement to Life - Ann Bausum

Good Reads: A Book Critic’s Perspective - Michael Dirda

Film Screenings: Our Own Words with Filmakers Jay & Paul V. Fishback, Delphine Red Shirt & Other Oak Lake Tribal Writers & Rising Voices: Hótȟaŋiŋpi - Revitalizing the Lakota Language with Fil-makers & Participants from the Language Conservancy

4 – 5 pm Guided Tasting of British, Belgian & German Ales with The Beer Bible Author Jeff Alworth – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

5 – 6 pm

FRIDAY, Sept. 23KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT

THURSDAY SPECIAL EVENTS 5-6:30 p.m. – South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings – “Women Working from Women” Reception and Poetry Reading – Christine Stewart-Nuñez

5:30-6:30 p.m. – Crothers Engineering Hall Room 204, SDSU Campus, Brookings – Making Sense of the New Arab Wars – Marc Lynch

7-9 p.m. – McCrory Gardens Visitor Center, Brookings – Festival Fundraiser and Author Reception – TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

FRIDAY SPECIAL EVENTS 8-11:30 a.m. – Adee Honey Farms Process-ing Plant, Bruce – Tours of Processing Plant, featuring author Sue Doeden and owner Richard Adee, will begin every 15 minutes at 8, 8:15 and 8:30 and again at 10 and 10:15. Each tour is limited to 10 people. Attendees may provide their own transportation to and from Bruce or go to sdbookfestival.com to purchase a roundtrip ticket for a shuttle bus. Tickets are $10 per person, and each bus requires a minimum of five passengers. Tickets must be printed and brought to the bus in order to board.

10-11:45 a.m. – First Bank and Trust Board Room, Brookings – Poetry Workshop – Free Verse Isn’t Free: Logics of the Line – Christine Stewart-Nuñez – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

10-11:45 a.m. – Brookings City County Building Community Room – Workshop – Writing What You Don’t Know – Patrick Hicks – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

10-11:45 a.m. – Brookings Public Library Cooper Room A – Workshop – Plotting a

Page Turner – April Henry – TICKET RE-QUIRED ($20)

10-11:45 a.m. – Brookings Public Library Cooper Room B – Workshop – Develop-ing Character on a Dime – Faith Sullivan – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

12-1 p.m. – Performing Arts Center, Brook-ings – SDPB Live Broadcast – Dakota Mid-day Book Club with Festival Authors J. Ryan

Stradal, Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Paul Hutton and Janice Law

12-1 p.m. – Rotary West, The Country Club of Sioux Falls – Making Sense of the New Arab Wars – Marc Lynch

1-3 p.m., Brookings Public Library Cooper Room – Neither Wolf Nor Dog: The Journey Continues – Kent Nerburn will host a show-ing of the film made from his award-winning

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SDSU Student Union SDSU Briggs Library

SD Ag Heritage Museum

SD Art Museum Old Sanctuary Brookings Arts Council

Hobo Day Gallery & Campanile Room

Volstorff Ballroom 101A

Archives & Special Collections

Reading Room

Auditorium Community Cultural Center

10 – 10:45 am

The West in Myth, History & Movies - Tom Pope

Wicked Problems in Peace Education - Al-phonse Keasley (10:30-11:15) Conserving the

Land, Writing the Land - Jerry Wilson with Carter Johnson11 – 11:45

amTelling the Story of a Complicated Man: The Earl Brockelsby Biography - Sam Hurst

Readings by Winners of the Veterans Writing Award - Ron Capps

12 – 12:45 pm

The Role of the Humanities in Public Life - SDHC Board Members Eric Abrahamson, Russell McKnight, Julie Moore & Tamara St. John

Literary Lunch: The Science of Food and Drink – Enjoy Steak Salad & German Ale with Sue Doeden (Cooking Demon-stration) & Jeff Alworth (Beer Facts). Catered by Children’s Museum of South Dakota. TICKET REQUIRED ($25)

1 – 1:45 pm

Poetry and Autism: Helping Students Create - Brian Laidlaw

J. Edgar Hoover's PR Men - Matt Cecil

Cultivating Creativ-ity: First We Imagine - John Miller(1:30-2:15) Water & Humanity:

A Profound & Ever-Changing Relationship - Brian Fagan2 – 2:45

pmErasing Imaginary Lines: Us-ing Books to Catalyze Social Change - Lawrence Diggs

Political Marriages: True Love or Mutual Accom-modation? - Janice Law

The Sketch Book & the Journal - Martin Garhart(2:30-3:15) Paul L. Errington:

Pioneering Sustainability on the Plains - Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz & Matthew Wynn Sivils

3 – 4 pm Stonewall Stories: Bringing the History of the Gay Rights Movement to Life - Ann Bausum

Good Reads: A Book Critic’s Perspective - Michael Dirda

Film Screenings: Our Own Words with Filmakers Jay & Paul V. Fishback, Delphine Red Shirt & Other Oak Lake Tribal Writers & Rising Voices: Hótȟaŋiŋpi - Revitalizing the Lakota Language with Fil-makers & Participants from the Language Conservancy

4 – 5 pm Guided Tasting of British, Belgian & German Ales with The Beer Bible Author Jeff Alworth – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

5 – 6 pm

Times and presenters subject to change. Check Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at Exhibitor’s Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for transportation, meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

Events in grid below take place in Brookings.

book, and director Steven Simpson will join him for discussion after the screening.

5:30-6:30 p.m. – Performing Arts Center Larson Memorial Concert Hall, Brookings – Kitchens of the Great Midwest: The Inspira-tion Behind the Book – J. Ryan Stradal

6:30-7:30 p.m. – Performing Arts Center Roberts Reception Hall, Brookings – Mass Book Signing with Festival Authors

7:30-8:30 p.m. – Performing Arts Center Larson Memorial Concert Hall, Brookings – One Book South Dakota Keynote: Creating a Midwestern Trilogy, Beginning with Some Luck – Jane Smiley in conversation with SDPB’s Lori Walsh

8:40-10 p.m. – Performing Arts Center Fish-back Studio Theatre, Brookings – Open Mic hosted by South Dakota State Poetry Society

For transportation and parking information, please see p. 7.

Have an idea for a book?

Send a brief proposal (two pages maximum) to [email protected]

by Sept. 1, and get detailed, practical and proven feedback

in a personal meeting with Rob Fleder, longtime executive

editor for Sports Illustrated and editor of several New York Times bestselling books. Meet-ings will be scheduled on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 23.


SATURDAY, Sept. 24KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT

Old Sanctuary Old Market Children’s Museum of South Dakota

Brookings Arts Council

Brookings Activity Center

Brookings Public Library

Brookings City County Building

Fifth Street Gym

Carrot Seed

Community Room Party on One Community Cultural Center

Senior Center Cooper Room Council Chambers

Community Room

9 – 9:45 am

The Intimate Bond: An Archae-ologist Looks at How Animals Changed History - Brian Fagan

Perspectives on Pioneer Girl - William Anderson, John Miller & Nancy Koupal (SD State Histori-cal Society Press)


A Reading by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser

Addressing Chronic Violence through Peace Education - Alphonse Keasley

A Wilderness of Books: Paul L. Errington’s Liter-ary Education - Matthew Wynn Sivils

Prohibition in South Dakota: A History - Chuck Cecil

Cross-Genre Migration: From Books to TV, Films, Video Games & Back Again - Clay Stafford

10 – 10:45 am

Haunted by Jamestown: The Archaeology of America's First English Settlement - Marilyn Johnson

The Revenant vs. the His-torical Hugh Glass - Freya Manfred, James McLaird & Tom Pope

Dirt + Water = Mud, and Writing + Drawing = Stories - Katherine Hannigan

Local Memory & Karma: A Reading - Frank Pommer-sheim

Dear County Agent Guy: The Story of an Accidental Au-thor - Jerry Nelson

Across the Cimarron: Recreating History Through Fiction - Jerry Wilson

The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae - Matt Cecil

Fire Season: Writing About Fires & Firefighters - Miles Wilson

The Lyric vs. the Lyric: Writing Songs, Writing Poems - Brian Laidlaw

11 – 11:45 am

Anthropological Writings about Food Systems: From Papua New Guinea to South Dakota - Frederick Errington & Deborah Gewertz

Perfume River: Family Ties & the Legacy of War - Robert Olen Butler

Seeing Through an Author's Eyes - Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Simple Machines, Un-trussed: A Dual Reading - Barbara Duffey & Christine Stewart-Nuñez

Pioneer Entrepre-neurs in South Dakota - Robert E. Wright

History & Mystery: A Winning Combination - Anne Perry

When America Was Young: The French, the Indians & the Fur Trade - Shirley Christian

Building Readership Online & Off - Sandra Brannan, Dirk Lam-mers & Faith Sullivan

Stories & Songs: A Family Concert - Barry Louis Polisar

12 – 12:45 pm

Restoring Civility in Democracy - SDHC Board Members Dick Brown, Julie Johnson, Judith Meierhenry & Matthew Moen

Literary Lunch: The Paperboys: From Journalism to Fiction Writing - Pete Dexter & Jess Walter - TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Help! I've Been Kid-napped! Research Is Fun When You're a Mystery Writer - April Henry

Prose & Cons: Teaching Poetry in Prisons - Law-rence Diggs

Press Portrayals of Women Politicians: 150 Years in Con-text - Teri Finneman


The Complexities & Contradictions of George Armstrong Custer - T.J. Stiles & Paul Hutton

Beyond the Book: Network Thinking, Databases & the Digitization of Literature - Steven Wingate

1 – 1:45 pm

The Artistry of Bees - Mark Winston

The Ups and Downs of Writing Commercial Fic-tion - Jeffery Deaver

Growing Up Funny: My Life As a Cartoonist - Chris Browne

Multicultural Poetry & Poetics - South Dakota Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh

Female Politicians in the Media: Is There a Double Standard? - Janice Law

Choke Your Readers: Building Tension & Sus-pense - Sandra Brannan

Sioux Women in South Dakota: Traditionally Sacred - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Creating through Collaboration: An Author & Editor Discuss Their Process - Sam Hurst & SDHC’s Eric Abrahamson


Homemade with Honey Cooking Demonstration - Sue Doeden

2 – 2:45 pm

Writing About Running, Writing About Life - John Brant

War, Words & Healing - Ron Capps & Robert Olen Butler with SDPB's Lori Walsh

Drawing Your Way to a Story - Mike Lowery

The Collaborative Process of Rivers, Wings & Sky - Nancy Losacker & Norma Wilson

Baseball's No-Hit Wonders - Dirk Lammers

The Art of Procrastina-tion: How NOT To Get That Book Written - Pete Dexter & Rob Fleder

Narrative Process in Lakota Oral Tradition - Delphine Red Shirt

Writing Regional Biography - James McLaird & SDHC’s David Wolff


3 – 3:45 pm

Learning the Secrets of the World’s Master Brewers - Jeff Alworth

Going for a Beer and Other Sure-Fire Writing Strategies - Jess Walter

Stonewall Stories - Ann Bausum

Blue Thirsty: A Reading - Charles Luden

Telling the Stories of the Apache Wars - Paul Hutton

Sustainable Reading & Book Collecting: A Con-versation - Michael Dirda & Marilyn Johnson

Tribal Justice: The Im-portance of Language in Law and Poetry - Frank Pommersheim

Honesty & Humor in Memoir Writing - Freya Manfred

SATURDAY SPECIAL EVENTS 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPEN, Children’s Museum of South Dakota Second Floor

4 p.m. – Old Market – Happy Hour for Readers and Writers with Literary Loot

5:30 p.m. – Old Sanctuary – Killer Nashville Thrillers Come to South Dakota – Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry and Clay Stafford

6:30 p.m. – Old Sanctuary – Mass Book Signing with Festival Authors

7:30 p.m. – Old Sanctuary – Reflections on the Centennial of the Pulitzer Prizes – Robert Olen Butler, Shirley Christian, Ted Kooser and T.J. Stiles, moderated by Michael Dirda. This event will begin with the presentation of the 2016 Distinguished Achievement in the Humani-ties Awards.

Events on these pages take place in Brookings.

NOTE: On Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. there will be no parking available on the 300 block of 6th Ave. (between the courthouse and the library) due to the Farmer’s Market.

For additional transportation and parking information, please see p. 7.

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Old Sanctuary Old Market Children’s Museum of South Dakota

Brookings Arts Council

Brookings Activity Center

Brookings Public Library

Brookings City County Building

Fifth Street Gym

Carrot Seed

Community Room Party on One Community Cultural Center

Senior Center Cooper Room Council Chambers

Community Room

9 – 9:45 am

The Intimate Bond: An Archae-ologist Looks at How Animals Changed History - Brian Fagan

Perspectives on Pioneer Girl - William Anderson, John Miller & Nancy Koupal (SD State Histori-cal Society Press)


A Reading by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser

Addressing Chronic Violence through Peace Education - Alphonse Keasley

A Wilderness of Books: Paul L. Errington’s Liter-ary Education - Matthew Wynn Sivils

Prohibition in South Dakota: A History - Chuck Cecil

Cross-Genre Migration: From Books to TV, Films, Video Games & Back Again - Clay Stafford

10 – 10:45 am

Haunted by Jamestown: The Archaeology of America's First English Settlement - Marilyn Johnson

The Revenant vs. the His-torical Hugh Glass - Freya Manfred, James McLaird & Tom Pope

Dirt + Water = Mud, and Writing + Drawing = Stories - Katherine Hannigan

Local Memory & Karma: A Reading - Frank Pommer-sheim

Dear County Agent Guy: The Story of an Accidental Au-thor - Jerry Nelson

Across the Cimarron: Recreating History Through Fiction - Jerry Wilson

The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae - Matt Cecil

Fire Season: Writing About Fires & Firefighters - Miles Wilson

The Lyric vs. the Lyric: Writing Songs, Writing Poems - Brian Laidlaw

11 – 11:45 am

Anthropological Writings about Food Systems: From Papua New Guinea to South Dakota - Frederick Errington & Deborah Gewertz

Perfume River: Family Ties & the Legacy of War - Robert Olen Butler

Seeing Through an Author's Eyes - Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Simple Machines, Un-trussed: A Dual Reading - Barbara Duffey & Christine Stewart-Nuñez

Pioneer Entrepre-neurs in South Dakota - Robert E. Wright

History & Mystery: A Winning Combination - Anne Perry

When America Was Young: The French, the Indians & the Fur Trade - Shirley Christian

Building Readership Online & Off - Sandra Brannan, Dirk Lam-mers & Faith Sullivan


12 – 12:45 pm

Restoring Civility in Democracy - SDHC Board Members Dick Brown, Julie Johnson, Judith Meierhenry & Matthew Moen

Literary Lunch: The Paperboys: From Journalism to Fiction Writing - Pete Dexter & Jess Walter - TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Help! I've Been Kid-napped! Research Is Fun When You're a Mystery Writer - April Henry

Prose & Cons: Teaching Poetry in Prisons - Law-rence Diggs

Press Portrayals of Women Politicians: 150 Years in Con-text - Teri Finneman


The Complexities & Contradictions of George Armstrong Custer - T.J. Stiles & Paul Hutton

Beyond the Book: Network Thinking, Databases & the Digitization of Literature - Steven Wingate

1 – 1:45 pm

The Artistry of Bees - Mark Winston

The Ups and Downs of Writing Commercial Fic-tion - Jeffery Deaver

Growing Up Funny: My Life As a Cartoonist - Chris Browne

Multicultural Poetry & Poetics - South Dakota Poet Laureate Lee Ann Roripaugh

Female Politicians in the Media: Is There a Double Standard? - Janice Law

Choke Your Readers: Building Tension & Sus-pense - Sandra Brannan

Sioux Women in South Dakota: Traditionally Sacred - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Creating through Collaboration: An Author & Editor Discuss Their Process - Sam Hurst & SDHC’s Eric Abrahamson


Homemade with Honey Cooking Demonstration - Sue Doeden

2 – 2:45 pm

Writing About Running, Writing About Life - John Brant

War, Words & Healing - Ron Capps & Robert Olen Butler with SDPB's Lori Walsh

Drawing Your Way to a Story - Mike Lowery

The Collaborative Process of Rivers, Wings & Sky - Nancy Losacker & Norma Wilson

Baseball's No-Hit Wonders - Dirk Lammers

The Art of Procrastina-tion: How NOT To Get That Book Written - Pete Dexter & Rob Fleder

Narrative Process in Lakota Oral Tradition - Delphine Red Shirt

Writing Regional Biography - James McLaird & SDHC’s David Wolff


3 – 3:45 pm

Learning the Secrets of the World’s Master Brewers - Jeff Alworth

Going for a Beer and Other Sure-Fire Writing Strategies - Jess Walter

Stonewall Stories - Ann Bausum

Blue Thirsty: A Reading - Charles Luden

Telling the Stories of the Apache Wars - Paul Hutton

Sustainable Reading & Book Collecting: A Con-versation - Michael Dirda & Marilyn Johnson

Tribal Justice: The Im-portance of Language in Law and Poetry - Frank Pommersheim

Honesty & Humor in Memoir Writing - Freya Manfred

SUNDAY, Sept. 2510 a.m. – Old Sanctuary – Book Lovers’ Brunch: Spirituality from Ordinary Grace to Manitou Canyon – William Kent Krueger – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

1-3 p.m. – Hilton M. Briggs Library Room 130 – Workshop – Non-Fiction Writing: Communicating with Impact – Mark Winston

1-2 p.m. – Brookings Public Library Cooper Room – Writing with a Sense of Place – William Kent Krueger & Faith Sullivan

To purchase tickets for transportation, meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com. Times and presenters are subject to change. Please check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth in the Children’s Museum or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates.


AUTHORSJan Berkhout, Vermillion, SD

Carol Blackford, Hartford, SD

George Brandsberg, Manhattan, KS, cedartip.com

Gregory Coffin — GDX, Rapid City, SD, gdx1776.com

Linda Nelson Cundy, Madison, SD

Kathryn Dahlstrom, Hector, MN, kathryndahlstrom.com

Amy Daws, Sioux Falls, SD, amydawsauthor.com

Ellen Jean Diederich, Fargo, ND,givinity.com

Betsey DeLoache, Pierre, SD,redbirdstudiosd.com

Brenda Donelan, Sioux Falls, SD,brendadonelan.com

Irene Elliot, Sioux Falls, SD

Timothy Fountain, Sioux Falls, SD,caregivingstinks.wordpress.com

Cynthia Frank-Stupnik, Rice, MN,cynthiafrankstupnik.com

Nathan D. Gjovik, Rapid City, SD,ndgjovik.tateauthor.com

Travis Gulbrandson, Yankton, SD,travisgulbrandson.com

Noreen Harrison, Belle Fourche, SD

Mary A. Haug, Brookings, SD,maryalicehaug.com

Paul Horsted, Custer, SD,paulhorsted.com

Joe Krogman, Eagan, MN, joekrogman.com

Kale Lawrence, EnchantFire, Sioux Falls, SD, kalelawrence.com

Coleen Liebsch, Arlington, SD

David Longworth, Watertown, SD

Karen Pearson, Rapid City, SD

Roger Quam, Sioux Falls, SD

Charles Rogers, Sioux Falls, SD

Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD

Ozgur K. Sahin, Minneapolis, MN,ozgurksahin.com

Donovin Sprague, Rapid City, SD

J.E. “Scotty” Terrall, Books by Terrall, Custer, SD

Peter Vodenka, Rapid City, SD,journeyforfreedom.com

Katy Webb, Watertown, SD,ktwebbauthor.com

Christine Mager Wevik, Beresford, SD, itsonlyhairbook.com

Joyce Wheeler, Philip, SD,prairieflowerbooks.com

BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERSCenter for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD, augie.edu/cws

PS Publishing, Arlington, SD,publishps.com

South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum Press, Brookings, SD,agmuseum.com

South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Pierre, SD, sdshspress.com

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, nebraskapress.unl.edu

Usborne Books & More, Chancellor, SD, usborne.rocks

ORGANIZATIONSEnglish Department & Oakwood Magazine, SDSU, Brookings, SD,sdstate.edu/engl

Hilton M. Briggs Library, SDSU, Brookings, SD, sdstate.edu/library

The Language Conservancy, languageconservancy.org

New Rivers Press, Moorhead, MN, newriverspress.com

Plains Press, Spoon River Poetry Press, Ellis Press, Granite Falls, MN,ellispress.com

South Dakota Hall of Fame, Chamberlain, SD, sdexcellence.org

South Dakota State Poetry Society, sdpoetry.org

South Dakota Writes

The Exhibitors’ Hall is located on the sec-ond floor of the Children’s Museum and is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

EXHIBITORS’ HALL

September 22-25, 27, 2016Sioux Falls, Brookings & Rapid Citywww.sdbookfestival.com 605-688-6113

$20,000+ PRESENTING PARTNERS

CELEBRATING 14 YEARS!

SAVE THE DATE:15TH ANNUAL SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKSSEPTEMBER 21 – 24, 2017, RAPID CITY & DEADWOOD

A special thanks to all of the donors and volunteers who support South Dakota Humanities Council programs.

3M | Black Hills State University Foundation | Sandra Brannan* | Carolyn Mollers* Scott & Linda Rausch* | South Dakota Art Museum

South Dakota State University Office of the President* | Washington Pavilion

$5,000+ ENDOWMENT

DONORS

$2,500+ DONORS

$1,000+ DONORSThe Ament Group at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management | Brookings School District

Dick & Sue Brown* | Sherry & Tom DeBoer* | Delta Dental of South Dakota | Den-Wil HospitalitiesGlacial Lakes & Prairies Tourism Association | James & Kathy McMahon* | Steven & Kathy Sanford*

Jerry & Gail Simmons | Sioux Falls School District | South Dakota Agricultural Heritage MuseumSDSU College of Arts & Sciences | SDSU English Department | SDSU Office of the President | Keri Thompson

Gerry Berger LawThis program is part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initia-tive, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes. The initiative seeks to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

For their generous $45,456 support of the Campfires Initiative, we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Pulitzer Prizes Board and Columbia University.

CAMPFIRES INITIATIVE

Eric Abrahamson* | Brian Bonde* | Tom & Mary Beth FishbackJoe & Jennifer Kirby Charitable Fund of the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation*

Jason & Tatum McEntee* | Matthew Moen* | Tom & Jean Nicholson* South Dakota World Affairs Council | Jack & Linda Stengel | Robert & Ann Weisgarber

$500+ DONORS Margaret Cash Wegner

$5,000+ TRIBUTE SPONSORS

Gerry Berger LawFY16 Nov 1, 2015 to Oct 31, 2016 (* indicates endowment support)

Judith & Mark Meierhenry

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