Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
Carol Sklenicka’s biography of short story writer and poet Raymond Carver, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, was named one of the Best 10 Books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. A former instructor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Marquette University, she now resides in northern California Read more…
Scott Peterson has spent more than 30 years in the publishing business, most of it in editorial management. He is currently editor-in-chief for Journal Communications’ award-winning suburban newspaper groups, which publish 18 newspaper editions each week, two magazines per month and manage 27 web sites. NOW/Community Newspapers, Lake Country Publications Read more…
Mike Drew has won prestigious writing awards and was recently inducted into the Millwaukee Press Club Media Hall of Fame. He has written a nationally syndicated column, taught and lectured widely and led two national associations of newspaper critics and columnists. As a Milwaukee Journal theater critic, he visited London Read more…
Dr. Stephen M. Beall is an Associate Professor of Classics at Marquette University. He earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He has published articles on the theory and practice of translation in Roman Antiquity and on modern translations of the Latin liturgy of the Catholic Read more…
Suzanne Alexander, MD, has lived in Madison for over twenty-five years. After working many years as a general internist, she decided to focus on her family and writing. In addition to seeing her teenagers off to college, she is working on a growing collection of short stories and a novel. She Read more…
Ann Piehl was Youth Services Librarian at the Whitefish Bay Public Library until her retirement in 2009.
Douglas W. Jacobson is an engineer, business owner and World War Two history enthusiast who has traveled extensively in Europe researching stories of the courage of common people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. His debut novel, Night of Flames: A Novel of World War Two, won the 2008 “Outstanding Achievement Read more…
Robert Grede, BA, MBA, is a graduate of DePauw University and The Emory University School of Business. Grede has been on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Carroll College, and Marquette University, a syndicated columnist and frequent contributor to magazines, and has authored the best selling Naked Marketing – Read more…
Michael is the author of three critically acclaimed crime novels, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor and The Third Rail. His fourth novel, We All Fall Down, will be published by Knopf in the summer of 2011. Michael is also a documentary producer and co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E’s Read more…
Dr. Craig W. Hurst has been a member of the UW-Waukesha faculty since January 1993. In addition to his teaching duties, he also serves as Chair of the UW Colleges Music Department. Hurst enjoys music of all genres, reading, cooking, bird watching, and professional football and baseball.