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Author Events: Washington, DC Metro Area

This week, Gina Welch, Helen Simonsen, James McGrath Morris, Karl Rove and Kelly Corrigan are just some of the wonderful authors with events in in the DC area.

Friday, March 12

 
12:00 PM
George Norfleet
Author of A Pilot’s Journey
 
12:00 PM
Col. McGee
Author of Tuskegee Airmen
 
01:00 PM
Robert F. Dorr
Author of Hell Hawks and Air Force One
National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
 
07:00 PM
Ian Buruma
Author of Taming The Gods
 
Saturday, March 13
 
12:00 PM
K.D. Harris
Author of Poison I & II
 
12:00 PM
VJ Gotastory
Author of Year of the Crackmom
 
12:00 PM
George Norfleet
Author of A Pilot’s Journey
 
12:00 PM
Charles Herbert Flowers, Jr.
Author of Training the Best
 
01:00 PM
Gina Welch
Author of In The Land Of The Believers
 
01:00 PM
Robert F. Dorr
Author of Hell Hawks and Air Force One
National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
 
02:00 PM
Michelle Singletary
Author of The Power to Prosper
 
02:00 PM
Nora Lee Frankel
Author of Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee
 
02:00 PM
Reverend Leila Burgess
Author of Understanding the Ways of God
 
02:00 PM
Amy Goodpaster Strebe
Author of Flying for Her Country
National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
 
02:00 PM
Amy Nathan
Author of Yankee Doodle Gals and You Can Count on Us
National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
 
02:00 PM
Antoinette Brim
Author of Psalm of the Sunflower
 
02:00 PM
Tara Betts
Author of Arc & Hue
 
03:00 PM
B.Swangin Webster
Author of Let Me Just Say This
 
03:00 PM
Mary Amato
Author of The Chicken of the Family
03:45 PM
Paul Elliott
Author of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles, Washington, DC: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia
 
04:00 PM
Monique Marshall
Author of Diamondz are Forever & Saaphire's Pain
 
06:00 PM
Helen Simonson
Author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 
 
Sunday, March 14
 
01:00 PM
Thomas Kaufman
Author of Drink The Tea
 
01:00 PM
Robert F. Dorr
Author of Hell Hawks and Air Force One
National Air and Space Museum – Udvar-Hazy Center
 
01:00 PM
Alice S. Kandell
Author of A Shrine for Tibet
 
02:00 PM
Amy Nathan
Author of Yankee Doodle Gals and You Can Count On Us
 
02:00 PM
Katie Bowler and John Murillo
Authors of State Street and Up Jump the Boogie (respectively)
 
02:30 PM
James McGrath Morris
Author of Pulitzer: A life in Politics, Print, & Power
Newseum
 
03:00 PM
Karl Rove
Author of Courage and Consequence
 
05:00 PM
Annie Leonard
Author of The Story Of Stuff
 
Monday, March 15
 
05:00 PM
Steven V. Roberts
Author of From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America
 
05:00 PM
Cokie Roberts
Author of Ladies of Liberty
 
06:00 PM
Michael Gelb
Author of Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking
 
06:00 PM
Summer Whitford
Author of Join Us at the Embassy
 
07:00 PM
Adele Barker
Author of Not Quite Paradise
 
07:30 PM
Novelist E.L. Doctorow and documentary filmmaker Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, discuss their respective treatments of the Rosenberg affair and its aftermath. Co-sponsored by the Washington DCJCC. **This Reading is sold out, however some tickets may become available at the door**
 
Tuesday, March 16
 
12:00 PM
Abby Sallenger
Author of Island in the Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
 
02:30 PM
Father Gregory Boyle
Author of Tattoos on the Heart
Borders – L Street
 
06:30 PM
Sheila Curran
Author of Everyone She Loved
 
07:00 PM
Kelly Corrigan
Author of Lift
 
07:00 PM
Deborah Amos
Author of The Eclipse Of The Sunnis
 
07:00 PM
Tim Wendel
Author of High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbable Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time
 
07:00 PM
William Peter Blatty
Author of Dimiter
 
07:30 PM
Timothy M. Gay
Author of Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert
 
Wednesday, March 17
 
11:00 AM
Anousheh Ansari
Author of My Dream of Stars
 
06:30 PM
Book Talk: Damian Platt
Author of Culture is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
Busboys & Poets – 14th & V
*This is a panel discussion lead by the author*
 
07:00 PM
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Author ofDreams In A Time Of War
 
07:00 PM
Hugh Ambrose
Author of Pacific
Barnes & Noble – Tyson’s Corner
 
07:30 PM
Jason F. Wright
Author of The Cross Gardener
  
Thursday, March 18
 
04:00 PM
Jules Feiffer
Author of Backing Into Forward
 
06:45 PM
Albert Goldbarth and Eleanor Wilner
Authors of To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems and Girl with Bees in Her Hair, respectively
 
06:45 PM
Graham Schweig
Author of Bhagavad Gita
 
07:00 PM
Michael Lewis (in conversation with Joel Achenbach)
Author of The Big Short
 
07:00 PM
Ken Gormley
Author of The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr

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Linda Fairstein. Photo by Peter Simon.

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