Previous Literary Festival Authors List

1999
Charles Frazier

 

2000
Pat Conroy
Janette Turner Hospital
Nikky Finney
Susan Ludvigson
Rick Bass

 

2001    
William Styron
Les Murray
Sue Grafton
Louise de Salvo
Jamaica Kincaid

 

2002
Jill Bialosky
Rosellen Brown
Toi Derricotte

 

2003    
Derek Walcott
Percival Everett
Sue Monk Kidd

 

2004    
Stanley Crouch
Susan Vreeland
Mark Strand

 

2005
Edward Albee
Charles Wright
Francine Prose

 

2006
Michael Ondaatje
Joe Queenan
le thi diem thuy

 

2007
Bobbie Ann Mason
Galway Kinnell
James Barilla

 

2008
Louise Gluck
David Baldacci
David Bajo

 

2009
Masha Hamilton
Billy Collins
Kwame Dawes

 

2010
Susan Orlean
Colson Whitehead
Robert Crawford

 

2011
Maggie Dietz
Junot Diaz
David Gessner

 

2012
Kevin Young
Scott Simon
Emily St. John Mandel

 

2013
Susan Cheever
M.T. Anderson
Cassandra King

 

2014
Ron Rash
Eliza Griswold
Tony Hoagland

 

2015
Gene Luen Yang
Claudia Rankine
Etgar Keret

 

2016
William Powers
Benjamin Alire Saens
Karen Joy Fowler

 

2017
Terrance Hayes
Richard Michelson     
Lydia Millet

 

2018
Solmaz Sharif
Kerry Egan
Gene Luen Yang

 

2019
James Ellroy
Li-Young Lee
Joyce Hansen

 

2020
Nikky Finney
Kelly Starling-Lyons
George Singleton

 

2021
Jacqueline Woodson
Robyn Schiff
Aminatta Forna

 

2022
Tiya Miles
Evie Shockley
Dinah Johnson and April Harrison

 

2023
Atsuro Riley
Drew Lanham
Amina Luqman-Dawson

 

2024
Jesmyn Ward
Walter Mosley
Cinelle Barnes

 

2025
Chad Kushins
Kaveh Akbar