Columbus Circle, Friday, July 29 10 am - 6 pm, Saturday, July 30 & Sunday, July 31 10 am - 5 pm

The literary and creative talents of local and regional authors and illustrators will be showcased. Many authors will be on hand to discuss and personally autography their books. Visit http://bookstore.syr.edu for more information about the Syracuse University Bookstore.Syracuse University Book Fair Authors July 2011

Book Fair Authors:

Children and Young Adult Books

Bruce Coville grew up within a couple miles of the village of Phoenix in NY. As a child, Coville was an avid reader. Mary Poppins, Dr. Dolittle, and children's serials such as Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys were among his favorite books. He discovered his passion for writing in the sixth grade, and at seventeen, began to pursue writing seriously. Before he was able to support himself as a writer, Coville worked a variety of jobs, including toymaking, gravedigging, and finally teaching at an elementary school. His first published story was The Foolish Giant. He is most famous for his Unicorn Chronicles series, My Teacher is an Alien, Aliens Ate My Homework and Magic Shop series. Saturday 12-2pm.

Shawn Goodman is a writer and school psychologist. His experiences working in several New York State juvenile detention facilities inspired his book Something Like Hope. He has been an outspoken advocate for juvenile justice reform, and has written and lectured on issues related to special education, foster care, and literacy. Shawn lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and children. Saturday 12:30-2:30pm.

Fran Paige is a staff member at SU's Early Education and Child Care Center has created a charming children's book about Reagan McFagen is a precocious little girl who knows what she likes-and doesn't like. She especially likes to draw, but has trouble drawing triangles. With encouragement, she keeps trying, and learns that magical things can happen. Saturday 11am-5pm.

Childrens Books - Graphic Novel

Frank Cammuso is the Eisner nominated creator of the comic book series Max Hamm Fairy Tale Detective. He has been a political cartoonist for 20 years and draws editorial cartoons for the Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse. His work, including fiction and satire, has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Village Voice and on National Public Radio. Saturday 12-3pm, Sunday 1-4pm.

Childrens Books - Illustrator

Roger DeMuth lives in Cazenovia, New York, with his wife and is an Associate Professor of Illustration at Syracuse University. Roger has been teaching illustration at Syracuse University for some 30 years, and his wife operates Chameleon Gallery, a charming art emporium on the town's main drag, Albany Street. They also have an incredible garden at their home on Chenango Street in the village. Roger's books Please Don't Eat Me, Dinner for Eight and Messie Bessie are not to be missed. Friday 11am-3pm, Sunday 12-3pm.

David Forgensi lives in Syracuse, New York. Upon completing public education, David graduated from Onondoga Community College with an A.A.S. in Business Administration. Afterward, he completed a B.A. in Liberal Arts from SUNY Oswego. David has worked in the public school setting for over 14 years. His focus in public education is technology. More specifically, David assists in educational technology, whereas computer software programs are utilized to develop and enhance various fundumental skills for students. Ironically, it is the implementation of various technologies that have led to the development of his children's works. While David designs the original illustratons himself, it is professional computer software he uses to enhance and bring them to life. Check out David's book This Fish, That Fish, Even a Hat Fish. Friday 3-5pm, Saturday 11am-1pm, Sunday 12-2pm.

London Ladd is a lifelong Syracuse resident, is a graduate of Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration. He studied with renowned illustrators James Ramsone, Bob Dacey, John Thompson, Yvonne Buchanan and Roger DeMuth learning all aspects of illustration, art and design. London has partnered with Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King Jr, for a children's book, March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. His newest book is called Oprah the Littlest Speaker and chronicles Oprah Winfrey's childhood inspirations. His work has been displayed at the Everson Museum and the Syracuse Jazz Fest. London has also worked with various recording artists illustrating CD covers and he has designed a mural for the Cultural Resources Council depicting Reverend Jermain Loguen, an abolitionist, who helped escaped slave to freedom in the Underground Railroad. Friday 12-2pm, Saturday 1-3pm.

Jonas Sickler is a graduate of the Syracuse University school of Illustration. He began his career illustrating children's magazines. Jonas' first professional assignment was for the October cover of Cicada Magazine in 2001. Since then, Jonas has added numerous periodical illustrations to his portfolio. He is now focusing on illustrating children's books (but still accepts editorial assignments). His first six books are part of the INDESTRUCTIBLES® series by Workman Publishing Company. Sunday 12-4pm.

Crafting - Quilting

Joan Ford, creator of ScrapTherapy, will be on hand to sell her brand new book Cut the Scraps! which teaches readers everything you wanted to know (and more!) about the ScrapTherapy process in a book plus 20 terrific projects to make from your scraps. Joan will also have patterns on hand to sell. Saturday 11am-5pm.

Fiction

James A. Jacobs grew up in Syracuse and graduated from Nottingham High School where he played on three city championship football teams. He also was awarded three degrees from Syracuse University (BA English, MA Journalism, MS Social Science) and has been an English professor at a community college near Berkeley, CA for 34 years. His semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel, Transgressions, is set in 1950s Syracuse. The young protagonist and narrator is Daniel Mendoza, named after the family's patriarch, the 16th boxing champion of England. When he falls into mute despair after tragedy strikes his family, two uncles-one a Sephardic Kabbalist and the other an Iroquois Faithkeeper-unite to protect and nurture him until he is ready to delve more deeply into the crimes that have caused his grief. In his novel, set in an era when organized crime held sway over pro boxing, Jacobs also pays homage to many well-known Syracusans including his pro boxer father David, his mother Mary, Joey DeJohn, Roy Simmons, Pat Testa, Oren Lyons, Audrey Shenandoah, Sarah Hyman and Eugene Bynum of the Club 800, and many others. Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.

Matthew Dunn represents central New York talent at its best! Author of The Good Silver and Erased, he is the first self-published author to ever be inducted into the International Thriller Writers organization, joining such well-know suspense authors as James Patterson, Janet Evanovich, David Balducci, and Sandra Brown. The Good Silver intertwines a compelling present-day murder mystery with the secretive Oneida Community, a utopian commune established in the mid-1800's. Friday 11:30am-1pm, Saturday 1-3pm.

Richard Burton is a Syracuse University David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management who has completed his first novel, The Darkest Mission. The book incorporates his passion for sports and history, and weaves a tale beginning in the skies over Berlinin a B-17 bomber during World War II. Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.

David Klein is a native of upstate New York whose short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary magazines. He owns and operates a marketing communications firm in Delmar, New York, where he lives with his wife and two children. Klein's first novel is entitled Stash and he is feverishly at work a second novel. Saturday 11am-5pm.

Allie Larkin is the cofounder of TheGreenists.com, a site dedicated to helping readers take simple steps toward going green. Stay is her first novel, a big-hearted unforgettable debut about friendship, love and a German Shepard named Joe. Saturday 1-5pm.

Karen Winters Schwartz was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. Karen is an active board member of NAMI Syracuse (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and an advocate for mental illness awareness. Her first book Where Are the Cocoa Puffs?: A Family's Journey Through Bipolar Disorder follows a family through the tragedy of bipolar disorder, but it's not tragic. It's funny, sad, and thought provoking-and as real and as raw as mental illness itself. Friday 3-6pm, Saturday 11am-3pm, Sunday 1-5pm.

Stan Wilczek Jr. graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering and received an MBA from Syracuse University. He is also a graduate of Harvard's Advanced Management Program. He spent thirty years in the nuclear and utility industry and is currently on the adjunct staff at LeMoyne College and Keuka College. A lifelong resident of central New York, he lives there with his wife and children and has authored two books, The Kept Secret and Soma Man. Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.

Graphic Novels

Michael Raicht of Marcellus is a New York Times best selling graphic novel author whose series The Stuff of Legend is in its second volume. The storyline is set in 1944. An allied force advances along a war-torn beach in a strange land, outnumbered and far from home. Together, they fight the greatest evil they have ever known. Never ending waves of exotic enemies come crashing down on them, but they will not rest. Thousands of miles away, the world is on the brink of destruction. But here in a child's bedroom in Brooklyn, our heroes, a small group of toys loyal to their human master, fight an unseen war to save him from every child's worst nightmare. Friday 11am-4pm.

History

Douglas Egerton is a professor at LeMoyne college. His newest book, Year of Meteors, re-creates the cascade of unforeseen events that confounded political bosses, set North and South on the road to disunion, and put not Stephen Douglas, but his greatest rival, in the White House. We see Lincoln and his team outmaneuvering more prominent Republicans, like New York's grandiose William Seward, while Democratic conventions collapse in confusion. And we see the gifted, flawed Douglas marking his finest hour in defeat, as he strives, and fails, to save the Union. Year of Meteors delivers a teeming cast of characters, minor and major, and a breakneck narrative of this most momentous year in American history. Friday 11am-6pm & Saturday 11am-5pm.

Inspirational

Beverly Ann Wernet was born and raised in Massillon, Ohio, Bev attended St. Barbara's Grade School and graduated in 1969 from Central Catholic High School. She received her Master's Degree in the Science of Nursing at The University of Akron. She retired from a 20-year career in nursing, spanning Intensive Care nursing to Director of Nursing Practice and Research. Bev's inspirational book is entitled I Open Myself To You Oh Lord! Bev is married to Douglas and has two Aussiedoodles "Amos and Annie" (pictured in her book). They reside next to Onondaga Lake in Liverpool, New York. Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.

Local Interest

Elizabeth August and Thomas Mafrici are authors of Images of America: Cicero. One of the fastest-growing suburbs of Syracuse, Cicero lies on the shores of Oneida Lake, the largest lake entirely enclosed within New York. The Cicero area was home to the Iroquois and Owasco Indian tribes. The trails they created through Cicero were transformed into the first plank road laid in the United States. Known as the crossroads of New York, Cicero's central position in the state was crucial in the distribution of agricultural resources from the north to markets throughout New York by way of the Erie Canal, located 10 miles south of Cicero. Cicero was also the home of suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, two leaders in the suffrage movement. From the first plank road through the modern interstate highway system, transportation has always played an important role in the development of this community. Cicero provides a snapshot of the daily life and important events in this town's colorful and dynamic history. Saturday 11am-1pm.

Roxanna Carpenter is a representative from Crossthreads Arts Journal, a creative arts journal that promotes and highlights all the artists who live, work, or have some relation to the Westside of Syracuse, NY. Saturday 12-5pm.

John Hartsock, whose new book Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery profiles Long Point Winery near King Ferry in Cayuga County, will be on hand to sign his new book and discuss local wineries. Hartsock, a professor at the State University College at Cortland. Friday 2-4pm.

Harvey Kaiser is a local author specializing in the architecture of National Parks and the spectacular vistas of the Adirondacks. His books National Park Architecture Sourcebook, Architectural Guidebook to National Parks and Great Camps of the Adirondacks are essential for outdoors enthusiasts. Sunday 12-2pm.

Linda Kaiser is a local author who's newest book Pulling Strings: The Legacy of Melville A. Clark is published by Syracuse University Press and chronicles the founding in 1859 of the Clark Music Company, of which Melville Clark became president in 1919. Originally just a tinkers shed, the business ultimately moved into a six-story building in the center of Syracuse. The music company celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2010. Clark also combined his talents as a gifted musician and astute entrepreneur to start the first Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Sunday 12-2pm.

Roger Lucas a self-published author who specializes in the history and architecture of the Thousand Islands. His books include Boldt Castle: Heart Island, Waldorf Hotel, Thousand Islands Club and the recently published The Bellevue - Stratford Hotel. Mr. Lucas has researched the Thousand Islands since the 1960's and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the region. Saturday 11am-12pm & 2-4pm.

Sue Ellen McManus is village historian and director of The Museum at Shacksboro Schoolhouse in Baldwinsville's history archive. Sue's book is entitled Images of America: Greater Baldwinsville and includes over 200 historic photos. Images range from a picture of one of the Baldwinsville area's natural gas wells, which once supplied the city of Syracuse, to shots of canal boats; the village's tobacco industry and a neat photograph of employees of a pioneer local industry, The New Process Raw Hide Co., from 1888, ancestor of a company that's still among us. Sunday 2-4pm.

David J. Pitkin is a retired teacher and author who, over the years, has collected over 800 folktales of hauntings and apparitions, in the Caribbean, Canada, the U.S., and is now interviewing and investigating haunted houses around the world. Many of these early experiences are detailed in his haunted house books, Ghosts of the Northeast, and his recent works: Haunted Saratoga County, New York State Ghosts, Vol.1 and the upcoming NY State Ghosts, Vol. 2. Pitkin's first novel, which involves hauntings, ghosts and a near-death experience: The Highest Mountain: Death & Life in the Adirondacks, was published in June 2007. Friday 11am-6pm & Sunday 11am-5pm.

Kathleen Quigley and James Scherzi's new book The Summer Cottage: Retreats of the 1000 Islands captures the charm of island living and waterfront houses, featuring the cottages and summer estates of the Thousand Island region, an archipelago of nearly two thousand islands in the St. Lawrence River between the U.S. and Canadian borders of New York and Ontario. Stunning beauty and quiet majesty mark the landscape encompassing this mighty river and its forested islands, on which are set the summer retreats that are so richly photographed here. Boathouses, riverside porches open to fresh air and nature, gardens, and wonderful rooms that welcome the visitor are hallmarks of these homes. TBA

Allison Vincent will be representing the Stone Canoe Journal. Stone Canoe showcases the work of a diverse mix of emerging and well-established artists and writers with connections to Upstate New York. In doing so, the journal supports Syracuse University's ongoing efforts to nurture creative community partnerships and seeks to promote a greater awareness of the cultural and intellectual richness that characterizes life in the region. Friday 12-2pm.

Chuck D'Imperio is a longtime, award-winning radio broadcaster at Central New York Radio Group's station WDOS in Oneonta. He is the author of several books including My Town is a Cathedral: My Memories of Sidney, Upstate New York: History Happened Here! and Great Graves of Upstate New York! The Upstate New York Final Resting Places of 70 True American Legends. TBA

Norman Keim was chaplain at Syracuse University's Hendricks Chapel from 1961 until 1973. He was adjunct professor of film studies at the university's Newhouse School of Journalism from 1973 until 1985, and the founder and director of the Syracuse University Film Studies Center. He created Film Forum, a weekly presentation of art films in the University's Gifford Auditorium and the Regent Theatre from 1967-80. In addition, he served as consultant for career counseling at the Regional Learning Center. In his new book, Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York, he offers a richly detailed account of the origins of American film in Central New York, the colorful history of neighborhood theaters in Syracuse, and the famous film personalities who got their start in the unlikely snow belt of New York State. Sunday 11am-4pm.

Non Fiction - Education

Georgia Popoff is a poet based in CNY, she is the author of two collections of poetry and the newly released Our Difficult Sunlight with co-author Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight explores the terrain of the 21st century public school and offers strategies for improving students' reading comprehension and writing skills. Sunday 12-3pm.

Poetry & Memoir

Marv Druger published Strange Creatures and Other Poems, a book of poems for children of all ages. He is a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and taught introduction to Biology for more than 50 years. He served as president of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), and twice president of the Society for College Science Teachers (SCST). He is the recipient of the Robert Carleton Award from NSTA and the Honorary Emeritus Member Award from ASTE - the highest awards bestowed by these international science education organizations. Currently, Dr. Druger is secretary of the Education Section (Q) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - the largest multidisciplinary science organization in the world. Dr. Druger's newest book, The Misadventures of Marvin, is a memoir chronicling his academic and person adventures with his wife Pat. Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm.

Sports

Sean Kirst is a columnist for the Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York. He was a contributing editor for Empire State Report, a political magazine in New York, and he is the author of The Ashes of Lou Gehrig and Moonfixer: Basketball Journey of Earl Loyd. Kirst was awarded the 2008 Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for human interest writing, given by the Scripps Howard Foundation to the one newspaper writer nationwide who most exemplifies the works of Pyle, a famed World War II correspondent. Friday 4-6pm.

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