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The 2008 S.C. Book Festival Feb. 22-24 will feature several University faculty members and an event with Cocky's Reading Express. The opening night reception with Kevin O'Keefe, author of The Average American, will be held at the Thomas Cooper Library.
Carolina faculty members who will read and talk about their work at the 12th-annual event include Kwame Dawes, Ray McManus, Elise Blackwell, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Janette Turner Hospital, and Dinah Johnson,faculty members in the English department; Andrew Billingsley, professor of sociology and African American studies and senior scholar in residence at the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina; and Cleveland Sellers, director of African American Studies Program.
The festival will hold its first-ever event for children Feb. 22 when third-grade students from three area elementary schools will enjoy a morning with Cocky's Reading Express and several children's authors, including Mary Alice Monroe and Lynn Floyd Wright.
Other authors who will participate in the festival include novelist Josephine Humphreys, cookbook author Nathalie Dupree, S.C.'s poet laureate Marjory Wentworth, bestselling crime writer and winner of the Edgar Award Harlan Coben, history writers Jack Bass and Ronald Daise, science fiction writer Jay Lake, and numerous others.
Most festival events will take place at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Events taking place Feb. 23 and 24 are free and open to the public. There is a charge for special events taking place Feb. 22.
For more information about the festival, including a complete schedule and list of authors, go to www.scbookfestival.org.
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Ernest Lee, South Carolina's Chicken Man folk artist, is the official artist of the 2008 S.C. Book Festival. Limited edition posters, like the one above, and other works by Lee will be available at the festival.
