2015 Guide - South Dakota Festival of Books by SDHC by South Dakota Humanities Council

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Badger Clark, South Dakota’s Poet Laureate from 1937 until his death in 1957, in his cabin in Custer State Park. This image (also on our front cover) was provided by Dakota Discovery Museum.

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Mayor’s Welcome

SD Humanities Council Welcome Events Map A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Sponsored by United Way of the Black Hills, Vucurevich Foundation, Rap- id City Public School Foundation, Northern Hills Federal Credit Union and South Dakota Arts Council

9 A Tribute to Fiction

Sponsored by Rushmore Media Company

11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction

Sponsored by City of Deadwood and South Dakota Public Broadcasting

12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing

Sponsored by Brass Family Foundation and Deadwood Historic Preservation

14 Presenters 24 Schedule of Events 30 Exhibitors at Exhibitors’ Hall For more information visit www.sdbookfestival.com or call (605) 688-6113. Times and presenters listed are subject to change. Changes will be announced on sdbookfestival.com, twitter.com/sdhumanities, facebook.com/sdhumanities and included in the Festival Survivor’s Guide, a handout available at the Exhibitors’ Hall information desk in the Deadwood Mountain Grand. The South Dakota Festival of Books guide is a publication of

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Welcome... Festival of Books Visitors!

HAVE THE PRIVILEGE as Mayor of the City of Deadwood to welcome you to our community for the 13th annual South Dakota Festival of Books. Since the inception of this event in 2003, Deadwood has been the host city each odd-numbered year. The City of Deadwood, the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission and the Deadwood City Library are pleased to partner with the South Dakota Humanities Council for the sixth time to present this book festival.

The list of presenters is long and impressive. Book lovers will have an opportunity to listen to a diverse group of authors from throughout the country. There are many historical and cultural sites to visit throughout the City of Deadwood, including the Days of ’76 Museum, the Adams House and Museum, Mount Moriah Cemetery and the Broken Boot Gold Mine. We encourage you to visit each and every one. We look forward to having you join us for this exciting event and hope you get a chance to explore Deadwood in its 53rd anniversary of being designated a National Historic Landmark. If there is anything I can do to make your visit more pleasant, please contact me. Sincerely,

Charles Turbiville Mayor, City of Deadwood (605) 578-2082

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Prairie Edge............................................. 27 Prairie Pages Bookseller.......................... 6 SD Historical Society Press...................... 2 SD Humanities Council...................... 5, 21 SD Public Broadcasting.................... 19, 23 SD State Library....................................... 15 SD State University................................. 17 Sioux Falls CVB........................................ 16 University of Nebraska Press................... 4 University of Oklahoma Press.................. 3

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Standing Bear of the Ponca by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Tasunka by Donald Montileaux Stink: Twice as Incredible by Megan McDonald Baby Bear and Miss Bindergarten by Ashley Wolff A is for Boat by Stuart Huntington I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee by Charles Shields

The Monster Who Ate the State by Chris Browne When Lunch Fights Back by Rebecca L. Johnson The Strange Christmas Dream by Rod Hoffer Stubby the War Dog by Ann Bausum Eden West by Pete Hautman Four Famous Faces by Jean Patrick

For more about the Young Readers Festival, call Jennifer Widman, director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715.

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Join Us!

LL OF US AT THE South Dakota Humanities Council hope you’ve enjoyed some great books this year! “Primo Levi once said, ‘I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind.’ Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time” (Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books, Viking Books). We hope you’ll join us and other readers in the Black Hills this fall! Headlining the 13th annual Festival of Books will be William Kent Krueger, author of the 2015 One Book South Dakota, Ordinary Grace. His Festival appearance will serve as the culmination of his author tour, during which he’ll visit a dozen South Dakota communities. As always, the Festival will offer something for every reader. Fiction fans will flock to see best-selling novelist Garth Stein, and history buffs won’t want to miss a presentation by Calamity Jane scholars Richard Etulain and James McLaird. Perspective on tribal experiences will come from scholars and novelists Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Harold Johnson and Susan Power, as well as children’s writers Donald Montileaux and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, among others. We have behind-the-scenes information on beloved authors, too. Pamela Smith Hill will discuss the phenomenal success of the Laura Ingalls Wilder annotated autobiography Pioneer Girl, while Charles Shields, author of Mockingbird, will share insights into Harper Lee’s rediscovered Go Set a Watchman, published this summer. Aspiring writers will find guidance through our Writers’ Support track. Festival favorite John Dufresne will lead a workshop on flash fiction, and the Book Doctors — David Henry Sterry and Arielle Eckstut — will give an encore presentation of their Pitchapalooza event. 2015 marks a major turning point in South Dakota poetry, with David Allan Evans, South Dakota’s Poet Laureate since 2002, stepping down. All four nominees — Patrick Hicks, James Reese, Lee Ann Roripaugh and Norma Wilson — will appear on stage with Evans to introduce Roripaugh as the state’s new Poet Laureate. Leading a dozen authors and illustrators participating in our second annual Young Readers Festival of Books will be Megan McDonald, author of the 2015 Young Readers One Book, Stink: Twice as Incredible. Ashley Wolff will present a “boot camp” for illustrators, and Rebecca L. Johnson will describe the fascinating and frightening creatures she’s observed in nature. Black Hills students will travel to the Sanford Underground Research Facility to hear Hägar the Horrible cartoonist Chris Browne talk about Soozy the dinosaur, star of his book The Monster Who Ate the State, who was born in the lab. Y.A. fans will enjoy learning how National Book Award winner Pete Hautman chooses his topics, from real-life adolescent issues to timetwisting science fiction scenarios. We look forward to seeing you in the Black Hills Sept. 24-27. And please mark your calendar early for 2016, when we’ll be in Sioux Falls and Brookings Sept. 22-25, celebrating the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative. Until then, keep reading!

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Festival of Books Event Locations

Deadwood A. Days of ’76 Museum (48 Crescent Dr.) B. DEADWOOD City hall (108 Sherman St.)

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C. DEADWOOD Mountain Grand (1906 Deadwood Mountain Dr.) • Event Center • Prospector Room • Hotel Conference Room • Bill’s Backstage Bar

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D. DEADWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY (435 Williams St.) Walk up the hill on Shine St. and turn left or walk through the Franklin and exit out the back entrance on 2nd floor through the parking lot. • Downstairs • Main Floor

F. Homestake adams Research & Cultural Center (HARCC) (150 Sherman St.) • Mary Adams Lecture Hall

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E. FRANKLIN HOTEL (700 Main St.) • Emerald Room – 2nd floor

G. Lead-DEADWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOl (716 Main St.) Use north entrance. • Auditorium • Gym • Library H. MARTIN & MASON HOTEL (33 Deadwood St.) • 1898 Ballroom I. Saloon #10/Deadwood Social Club (657 Main St.) • Charlie Utter Theater

Lead J. Historic Homestake Opera House (313 West Main St., Lead) Take Hwy. 14A south to Lead.

FESTIVAL GUIDELINES

Please abide by the following guidelines to make this event enjoyable for all: no soliciting or distributing flyers, literature, etc., of any kind at any festival venue without prior consent. No videotaping or tape recording. Turn cell phones and pagers off during presentations. The Festival of Books, its sponsors and venues are not responsible for lost or stolen items. 7

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Children’s/Y.A.

A Successful Last Resort Pete Hautman is a classic authorial success story. After graduating “honor free” from high school in St. Louis Park, Minn., he attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota, and didn’t earn a degree from either place. Then it was on to a series of jobs “for which I was ill-suited,” Hautman says, including pineapple slicer, which might indicate he no longer owns a full set of fingers. ”Eventually, having no better options, I decided to write a novel,” Hautman says. His first book, Drawing Dead, a mystery, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1993. Since then he has achieved both critical and commercial success with 10 other efforts in that genre, including three co-authored with Mary Logue. Hautman is also a noted author of novels for young adult readers. In Godless, teenager Jason Bock is not impressed by his parents’ boring, mainstream religion, so he invents one, complete with its own god: the town water tower. Godless earned Hautman the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2004. His latest, Eden West, is a fanciful exploration of a boy’s unraveling allegiance to an insular cult.

Stink, Judy Moody and Cooties

E GA N McD ONA L D of idioms. “I’m tickled pink that you asked about them,” McDonald says, was the youngest in a family of f ive sisters. laughing. “When it comes to idioms, Ever y evening at din- I’m all ears. They put me on cloud nine. Okay, I’ll stop now! Stink and nertime the McDonalds would gather around the the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawkitchen table, talking and telling sto- breaker is full of idioms. I couldn’t reries, but Megan remembers barely be- sist. They’re so fun and funny. There’s even a list in back, which teachers tell ing able to get a word in edgewise. me they appreciate.” “That’s when my mother gave me a McDonald likes to connect with her notebook,” she says, “so that I could audience — second and third graders write down everything I wanted to — whenever she can. “While I make say!” an effort to not directly use ideas that McDonald’s writing led to her first published story — about pretending come from kids themselves, their to be a pencil sharpener — which ap- imagination and humor informs my peared in her school newspaper at age work,” she says. “I love to hear what 10. “Anything can become an idea for they’re reading, what they’re interesta story,” says McDonald, and that ca- ed in, jokes they tell, what names they have for their pets, their favorite foods pacity for imaginative storytelling has launched 60 children’s books so far. and colors.” T he South Da kot a Hu ma n it ies She is widely known for her acclaimed Judy Moody series and its spinoff fea- Council selected McDonald as the 2015 Young Readers One Book South turing Judy’s little brother Stink. “Judy and Stink are meant to be Dakota author. With support from timeless, so I make a conscious ef- sponsors, the council distributed fort to steer clear of current lingo,” 3,000 copies of a special two-in-one says McDonald. “ABC gum. Stinker. edition of Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid and Stink and the Incredible Oogey. Sourball. Cooties! These are all examples of words from my own Super-Galactic Jawbreaker to second childhood in the ’60s and ’70s that graders in 13 Black Hills school districts and on the Pine Ridge and RoseJudy and Stink have been known to say, but they’re funny-sounding words, bud Reservations. McDonald will adwhich makes them universal, rather dress some of those students and other interested readers in the schools and at than dated, to my ear.” the Young Readers Festival. Megan, Judy and Stink are all fans

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Fic tion

A Spiritual Journey

R ANK DRU M WAS 14 du r i ng the t u mu lt uous summer of 1961. That’s t he ye a r New Br e me n , Minn., was rocked by four deaths, a macabre mix of accidents, suicide and murder. All of them profoundly impacted the teenager, but one in particular changed the Drum family forever. As much as Ordinary Grace is a susp e n s ef u l mys t e r y, it’s a coming-of-age story with familial themes that resonate no matter where you live. It garnered author William Kent K r ueger several awards, including the 2013 Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Wr it e r s of A m e r ica for the best novel published that year. It’s also the 2015 One Book South Dakota, selected by the state humanities council. “It’s about family at heart, and the st r uggles that ever y family goes through to stay together,” Krueger says. “It’s about faith, and we all struggle with faith. It’s about small towns, and so many people across the country grew up in a small town. There are things that are unique and others that are universal. I think readers see a lot of universality in place and family.” Krueger is best known for his mystery series featuring Cork O’Connor, a private detective in northern Minnesota with Irish and Ojibwe heritage. Though Ordinary Grace is a standalone novel, elements from the series shaped its construction. “[Cork is] a man with a foot in two different spiritual traditions,” Krueger says. “In those stories he’s often figuring where his own path lies. That has been an im-

portant issue for me my whole life, and I was looking for a way to help explore that quest more deeply. This story allowed me to go back and explore the period in my own life when I was 13.” That made the project deeply personal for Krueger, who grew up in several small Midwestern towns. The Drum family includes patriarch Nathan, a Methodist preacher, his wife Ruth, a woman trained in the arts but forced i nto t he role of h o m e m a ke r, a n d three children. They are based largely on Krueger’s own parents — an English teacher and a frustrated homemaker — and his siblings. “Teachers, ministers, bankers … these are the people who are sc r ut i n i zed a l it tle more caref ully, and their families are often watched closely, so I knew that part of the experience intimately.” It also allowed K rueger to watch his story grow in a new way. “When I write the Cork novels I plot the whole thing before I write,” he says. “I know how it ends. But this was an organic experience. I knew very few things about it. I knew about the family, the town and that a significant death would threaten to tear the family apart. I didn’t know who was going to die. For a while I had an idea that it would be someone else. The story for me was a journey of discovery, just like it is for the readers. I was constantly surprised by the twists and turns and so thrilled with the experience.”

Unexplained Connections In Garth Stein’s new novel A Sudden Light, Jones Riddell plans to save himself from bankruptcy and a threatened marriage by selling his family’s Seattle estate. And as much as his 14-yearold son Trevor yearns for that outcome, he begins to question the plan because of information gleaned from an unexpected source — the ghost of his great uncle Ben. Absurd? Stein’s not so sure. Shortly after he began work on the book, Stein’s father died. A few months later, he had dreams in which he and his father had lengthy conversations. “Often you know you are in a dream, but that wasn’t what it was like,” Stein says. “It seemed clearer, and I could remember it really well. I had this feeling that it was not a dream as much as a visitation. I started telling people about it and I was surprised by how many people have had similar experiences.” Through comparable visitations, Ben teaches Trevor about his family’s history as timber barons and sheds light on deeply held secrets that help Trevor realize what he must do. “So many things happen in this world, and we try to explain everything away,” Stein says. “There are connections that we can’t see, and does that mean they are invalid? I don’t think they are.”

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Poetry Evans Ends Tenure as Poet Laureate David Allan Evans spent 13 years as South Dakota’s Poet Laureate. “I was happy to be able to encourage and coach writers,” Evans says. “To be useful as a poet has been just about the best thing I’ve experienced as Poet Laureate.” Even so, he resigned from the position in September of 2014 to provide someone else the opportunity. E vans hopes his successor is open to all kinds of poetry — formal, free verse, slam, cowboy, online or any kind of heightened speech — and that they’ll explore poetry as therapy. “It’s no accident that so many psychologists and psychotherapists refer to poetry — from Rumi to Mary Oliver — in their professions as well as in their books,” Evans says. “Poetry can help us see clearly, help us relate to others and even help us heal from trauma and illness.” An event celebrating Evans and the next Poet Laureate, Lee Ann Roripaugh, along with three finalists—Patrick Hicks, James Reese and Norma Wilson—will be held Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center.

Giving Voice to Words Unspoken

E BR A M A RQUA RT prices, Marquart still foresees longg rew up i n t he small term effects. “I thin k what’s troubling about town of Napoleon, North D a k o t a , p o p u l a t i o n what’s going on in North Dakota — 1,107, and as a teenager and this isn’t just my interpretation couldn’t wait to leave. — is that the state government is too permissive. They’re trying to sort of “In my childhood, like those people with suitcases packed and waiting grease the wheels of the oil industry,” for the mother ship, I prepared my- Marquart says. “The state is trying not to fine the oil companies when self for transplantation,” Marquart writes in her 2007 memoir, The Hor- they make mistakes because they izontal World: Growing Up Wild in want them to continue to do business there. That’s really bad for the populathe Middle of Nowhere. She toured as tion because there have been pipeline a rock musician in the ’70s and ’80s before settling as an English profes- breaks and catastrophic spills that have basically knocked out whole wasor at Iowa State University and the University of Southern Maine. But ter supplies of towns.” Marquar t im mersed herself in she still feels strong ties to her home state, and an obligation to write about the area’s new culture while teachthe effects of the Bakken oil boom. “I ing writing workshops through the feel that part of North Dakota, that Nor th Dakot a Hu man ities Cou ncil. She’s written a non-fiction piece northwestern corner where the boom about the boom and hopes to draw atoccurred, is largely invisible within tention to the environmental degradathe region,” Marquart says. “So that’s why I want to write about it and draw tion through her poem, “Small Buried Things.” The poem in five parts attention to it.” The discovery of the Parshall Oil is the fulcrum of her latest collection Field in 2006 caused the boom that by the same name. “All the poems in Small Buried Things I wrote over overcrowded towns and schools and the last eight years,” Marquart says. sometimes increased crime. While Marquart believes it’s good to encour- “It’s always surprising when you start to look at them and you realize, ‘Oh, age industry, she says it shouldn’t be they are connected.’ I saw this theme done at the expense of the health and well being of the local population. going through the book of silencing Though the boom slowed substantial- and repressing, things that are buried, ly in 2015 due to a global decline in oil unspoken and unacknowledged.”

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Non-Fic tion Mockingbird Revealed

H A R LES SHIELDS taught high school English for 17 years before b e c o m i ng a n a u t ho r. “About t wo -t h i rd s of A merican public high schools teach To Kill a Mockingbird, and my students were very curious to know about [its author, Harper Lee],” Shields says. “They fell in love with the character Scout and wanted to know how much of the book was autobiographical.” Shields searched for infor mation on the fiercely private Southerner to little avail. She’d given her last major interview in 1964, and encyclopedia articles of the 1980s inaccurately granted Lee a degree from Oxford and family ties to Robert E. Lee. “I couldn’t get a clean idea or viewpoint on who she was and how she had lived,” Shields says. W hen Shields lef t teaching in 1997, he began freelancing for educational publishers. He’d written 20 histories and biographies for kids when he decided to write for adults. “In the back of my mind there was always that question, ‘Why is there not much known about Harper Lee despite how popular she is as an author?’” Shields says. “I had taught Mockingbird many times and thought, ‘If I can just get any of those millions of readers of hers to pick up the biography, the book will do well.’” And it has. Shields’ biography, Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, is in its 12th edition since 2006. The young adult version, I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, was released in 2008.

Shields contacted around 600 of Lee’s acquaintances and former classmates from her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama. About 80 agreed to speak with him, despite his Northern accent. “I can’t tell you the number of times that I started a conversation with someone dow n there i n Alabama and there’d be a pause and they’d say, ‘You’re not from around here, are you?’” Shields says. “I’d get things like, ‘ We l l , y o u k n o w Southerners. We’re mixed together like pea nut but ter. It’s pretty hard to separate us.’” Lee declined an interview, ignoring all attempts at contact. And he’s heard she tells people not to read the book. “But it doesn’t seem to be holding up sales too much, I don’t think,” he says. To Kill A Mockingbird sells over 100,000 copies a year, so interest in Lee endures. And Lee’s earliest work, Go Set a Watchman, was published this summer. Shields speculates that the 89-year-old author was not fully aware when she approved the release. “She is in an assisted living. She’s very forgetful. She’s almost blind. Some days she’s sharp and other days she’s bewildered,” Shields says. “Even Alice [her late sister and former attorney], about three years ago said, ‘Poor Harper. She’d sign her name to anything.’”

Loving the Skin you’re in In 2007, Brittany Gibbons began writing about her struggles as a “curvy woman” in her amusingly honest blog, BrittanyHerself.com. She wore a bathing suit to denounce body shaming in a 2011 TED Talk. She’s encouraged thousands to change how they think and talk about their bodies. And she’s continuing the conversation with her memoir, Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin ... Every Inch of It. Gibbons’ journey to selfacceptance has not been easy, but she hopes to destroy the myth that overweight women hate their bodies and themselves. The mother of three is most inspired by her 6-year-old daughter, Gigi. “I had two boys first and I kind of just skated through being a mom and putting myself second,” Gibbons says. “Once I had a daughter who looked exactly like me — had my thighs, my feet, everything — it was a scared straight situation. She changed my life when I saw her start to treat herself the way I had been treating myself.” 11

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Writers’ Support Sudden Stories Remember the old saying, “Write what you know?” John Dufresne thinks what you don’t know is more important. “It engages your sense of wonderment,” he says. Dufresne will present a workshop on flash fiction — extremely short stories with as few as six words. “It’s kind of a new form that’s evolving, but it’s as old as the parables in the Bible in some ways,” Dufresne says. He suspects the genre’s rise in popularity is related to Internet use and hectic lifestyles. “People don’t seem to have as much time to be alone to think deeply.” Dufresne, a novelist, was drawn to crafting flash fiction by the quick sense of accomplishment. “There’s nothing really to lose, nothing to prove. You’re just trying to see what you can discover. Some [stories] pan out and some of them don’t and you haven’t wasted four years of your life on a novel that doesn’t work,” he laughs. However, he believes no writing is ever really wasted. “Everything you write goes to everything you’ll ever write.” Dufresne’s latest, a crime novel, is No Regrets, Coyote. His next novel, I Don’t Like Where This is Going, is expected next spring.

A Mentor on the Range

I N DA H A S S E L S T RO M Northern Plains, was released in 1987. has helped people put their “It was my diary of a typical year on thoughts on paper for over the ranch when I was married, expecting to inherit it and live a life of ranch40 years. And since 1996, the creative non-f iction writer ing and writing,” Hasselstrom says. has hosted writing retreats Windbreak was broken into four secon the Hermosa ranch that her grand- tions coinciding with the seasons and included 17 poems highlighting sigfather homesteaded in 1899. “I love nificant events. Readers will see simiseeing someone begin to explore his or her own writing possibilities and be- larities in Hasselstrom’s latest release, come excited about telling a story that The Wheel of the Year: A Writer’s is unique,” Hasselstrom says. “It’s very Workbook, which includes 16 essays satisfying to see someone leave with linking ordinary writing challengthe outline of a family history, book es with the seasons and daily chores. of essays or novel that didn’t exist be- “[Wheel] demonstrates how even daily fore except in a mind. And in analyzing household tasks — ‘women’s work’ — their problems, I gain insight into my can become meditations leading to our best writing,” Hasselstrom says. Each own writing.” essay, not limited to topics of interest Writers from 29 states have visited the ranch where she lives full time. to women, is followed by writing sugThose who can’t visit Hermosa may gestions to challenge readers to reach work with Hasselstrom online. In ei- their writing goals. Though Hasselstrom has mentored ther situation, she equates her style of instruction to the Socratic method — many, she has trouble recalling a meninquiry and discussion between indi- tor of her own. “That’s probably one viduals, based on asking and answer- reason I enjoy helping others search ing questions. “It stimulates critical for their own potential,” she says. Hasthinking for both the writer and my- selstrom will lead a workshop using exercises from Wheel on Friday mornself,” Hasselstrom says. “Two minds working together on these writing ing at the Deadwood Mountain Grand. problems often leap to ideas that as- On Saturday she will read poetry from Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet, which she tound both of us.” Hasselstrom’s f irst book, Wind- co-authored with Nebraska State Poet break: A Woman Rancher on the Twyla Hansen.

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History/Tribal Writing UNEXPECTED BESTSELLER

ESTSELLERS ARE sometimes found in the strangest places. That’s certainly the case with Pioneer Girl, the memoir of Lau ra Ingalls Wilder that has spent week s on t he Ne w York Times Bestseller List and is in its fifth pr i nt i ng f rom t he South Da kot a Historical Society Press in Pierre. Wilder wrote the memoir in 1929 and 1930, but no publishers were interested in her stories as she h a d w r it t e n t h e m — for adult readers. She used por t ions of t he aut obiog r aphy as the basis for her popular “Little House” children’s series, and the manuscript was eventually tucked away at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Mo. Only researchers and authors like Pamela Smith Hill paid much attention to the memoir. Hill read it extensively in 2006 while researching her book Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. Hill, who grew up in Springfield, Mo., near Laura and Almanzo Wilder’s Rocky Ridge Farm, thought she had a good handle on Wilder’s stories, but Pioneer Girl showed them in a new light. “In the opening pages of the rough draft she talks about their dog, Jack. Pa trades Jack and his team of horses for a new set of horses because Jack really loved those horses and didn’t want to leave them,” Hill says. “I had to reread that a couple of times because in the novels Jack follows the family from Wisconsin to Indian Ter-

ritory and Plum Creek, and he has this emotionally satisfying death of old age on the banks of Plum Creek. To find out he didn’t accompany the family through their travels and he wasn’t with Laura as she grew up was shocking. I know it’s a small detail, but it demonst rates how skillful Wilder was a s a novelist. She could t ransfor m facts of life into a much more believable novel.” Pioneer Girl contains 381 pages of photos, illustrations and stories about pioneering life. Hill, who s e r ve d a s editor of the Pioneer Girl Project, and staff at the st ate h istor ical society spent four years researching Wilder’s tales to add even more infor mation. “Pioneer Girl is really a new ‘Little House’ book,” Hill says. “Although it covers much of the same material, it reveals aspects of her life that she chose not to fictionalize. I also think that Laura Ingalls Wilder readers are always eager for something new, something different from an author that they have loved and treasured.” Hill seems to be right. Some eager readers waited months to get one of the 125,000 copies now in circulation. But she’s also quick to give credit where it’s due. “It really has nothing to do with me and everything to do with Laura Ingalls Wilder,” Hill says. “She is the real rock star.”

A Spiritual Journey Candace Jenssen spends her days shopping and getting massages in downtown St. Paul, but when she hires an Ojibwe housekeeper named Gladys, she begins to reconnect with her Mohawk culture. Called a “clan-mother story for the 21st century,” Susan Power’s Sacred Wilderness tells the stories of Gladys and three other women — including a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary — trying to restore the spiritual foundation of Candace’s life. The novel took seven years to complete and had a noticeable effect on Power, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “Several years into the project, I realized that I was being pushed and pulled and squeezed, and ultimately transformed by the process,” Power says. “I was being made to not just research spiritual traditions and philosophies but learn to live some of them as well. Life can separate us from our true nature, and some of us spend the bulk of our days trying to find our way back to that original state of being. Sacred Wilderness was the first leg of a long trek to reclaim what is best in me.” 13

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Presenters Stacey Agdern is a two-time Golden Apple award-winning bookseller whose reviews and commentary have appeared in publications as diverse as 50 Writers on 50 Shades of Grey, HeroesAndHeartbreakers.com and book blogs hosted by USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly. Her work has been included in four anthologies, including one non-fiction and one under a naughty pen name. A member of Romance Writers of America, Agdern lives in New York.

Ann Bausum is thrilled to return to South Dakota with her latest book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, because it was “born” at the 2010 Festival. Many of Bausum’s books explore issues of social justice or little-known events. Last year she revived the almost-forgotten story of Stubby, a

stray dog smuggled to Europe during World War I, by writing twin titles: Sergeant Stubby (for adult readers) and Stubby the War Dog (for children).

Joseph Bottum is one of the nation’s most widely published writers and best-known public intellectuals. A contributing editor to the Weekly Standard, he holds a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy and lives in the Black Hills. His recent books include the sociological study An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America and the South Dakota memoir The Christmas Plains.

Tom Bouman is a former book editor and musician who lives with his wife and daughter in Pennsylvania, where he studies law. He is the author of the novel Dry Bones in the Valley, which recently won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.

Sandra Brannan has created a heart-pounding mystery series around Liv Bergen, a woman who embodies the spirit of South Dakota and who, like Brannan, has experience in the mining business. Her first five books have landed on the Denver Post bestseller list and reached the top 10 for e-book mysteries and top five for women’s mysteries. Named one of the top 25 most fabulous women by Black Hills Magazine, Brannan lives in Rapid City with her husband.

Chris Browne is a born cartoonist. His father, Dik Browne, created the comic strips Hi and Lois and Hägar the Horrible. Chris Browne contributed to Hägar from its beginning in 1972 and took it over upon his father’s death. Browne co-authored Hägar the Horrible’s Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook. He has also contributed cartoons to National Lampoon,

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Playboy, Esquire and The New Yorker. His first children’s book, The Monster Who Ate the State, came out in 2014.

Ron Capps is the founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project, a nonprofit that provides no-cost writing seminars for veterans and their adult family members. Having served 25 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, Capps is also a retired Foreign Service officer for the Department of State. His memoir, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, documents his service and details his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Ron Carlson writes just about everything: short stories, novels, poetry and essays. His newest novel is Return to Oakpine, and his book on writing, Ron Carlson Writes a Story, is taught widely. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, the McGinnis Award at the Iowa Review and the Aspen Literary Award. Carlson is the director of the graduate program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine. Richard Cerasani, author of Love Letters from Mount Rushmore, is also known as actor Richard Caine, having played the villain Bill Watson on television’s General Hospital. He became a writer after discovering an old steamer trunk containing love letters between his parents, written while his father worked as a sculptor on Mount Rushmore. The resulting book won the Gold Award for Non-Fiction, Adult Books, from Mom’s Choice Awards. Ann Charles writes mysteries splashed with humor, adventure, romance and whatever else sounds fun. Her award-winning work includes the Deadwood Mystery Series and the Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series, and she’s recently kicked off a new Dig Site Mystery series with Look What the Wind Blew In. A member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America, she fills her free time by wrestling with her two kids, attempting to seduce her hus-

band and arguing with her sassy cat. A member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is considered one of the nation’s leading voices on Native American issues, particularly tribal sovereignty. A former National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at Stanford University, she spent most of her academic career at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, where she was professor of English and Native American Studies. Her latest book, That Guy Wolf Dancing, is a novella set in South Dakota. Winner of the 1988 National Book Award for his novel Paris Trout, Pete Dexter began his working life at a U.S. Post Office in New Orleans. He went on to write for newspapers, including the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and he compiled many of his columns into the book Paper Trails. Dexter now splits his time between Washington state and a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service. The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, dedicate themselves to helping authors get published. They are co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It … Successfully. Eckstut has written seven books and amassed 18 years of experience at The Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. Sterry is the best-selling author of 12 books ranging from YA fiction to reference. North Dakota native and Harvard-trained economist Richard Edwards is director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska. Much of his work focuses on preservation of the landscape, culture and history of the Great Plains. His latest book, Natives of a Dry Place, explores life in mid-20thcentury Stanley, a small western North Dakota wheat town, both before and after the Bakken oil boom.

Lin Enger’s latest novel, The High Divide, came out in May 2015. His prior work has received awards including a James Michener Fellowship, a Minneso15

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Presenters ta State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome travel grant and a Lake Region Arts Fellowship. A former Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Enger now teaches at Minnesota State University. During the 1990s, he and his brother, the novelist Leif Enger, collaborated (as L. L. Enger) on a series of mystery novels. A specialist in the history and literature of the American West, Richard W. Etulain has written or edited more than 50 books, most recently The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane (2014) and Calamity Jane: A Reader’s Guide (2015). Etulain is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. Having served as South Dakota’s Poet Laureate since 2002, David Allan Evans is stepping down. The Sioux City, Iowa native has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Artist Foundation, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar to China. In 2009 Evans received the South Dakota Governor’s Award for Creative Distinction in the Arts. He has published eight poetry collections, most recently The Carnival, The Life and several prose books. During his 20 years at Time, Inc., Rob Fleder was executive editor of Sports Illustrated and editor of Sports Illustrated Books. He edited New York Times bestsellers including SI 50: The Anniversary Book and Hate Mail from Cheerleaders, by Rick Reilly. Fleder also worked with celebrated authors from within and beyond the sports world to produce Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World’s Most Loved (and Hated) Team, a collection of original essays about the New York Yankees.

Brittany Gibbons is a humorist, internet personality, model and nationally recognized positive body image advocate. She began her blog, www.brittanyherself.com, in 2007, later founded the magazine CurvyGirlGuide.com and now hosts “Last Call Brittany,” a weekly Google talk show. Her first book, Fat Girl Walking, was published

this spring. She lives in Toledo, Ohio with her husband and three children. A retired historian, curator and manager with the National Park Service, Jerome A. Greene has written 16 books, including three on South Dakota history. He served in the U.S. Army, taught American Indian history at Haskell Indian Junior College and is a member of several editorial boards for history publications. Greene’s most recent title, American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890, received the Western Writers of America 2015 Spur Award for Best Western Historical Nonfiction. Nebraska State Poet Tw yla M. Hansen has six poetry collections to her name, two of which have won the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry, Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet (with Linda M. Hasselstrom) in 2012 and Potato Soup in 2004. Hansen grew up in northeast Nebraska on land her grandparents farmed as immigrants from Denmark, and lives in Lincoln, where her yard is maintained as an urban wildlife habitat.

Linda M. Hasselstrom is a South Dakota rancher and full-time resident writer at Windbreak House Writing Retreats. She has published 15 books; her poetry and nonfiction appear in dozens of anthologies and magazines. Among her many awards, she was named Author of the Year by the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English in 1989 and received the Governor’s Award in the Arts for Creative Achievement in 1990. Hasselstrom’s ranch hosts the Great Plains Native Plant Society’s Claude A. Barr Memorial Botanic Garden. At the heart of Mary Woster Haug’s memoir Daughters of the Grasslands: Through the Looking Glass of Korea are stories of spirituality, mothers and daughters and knowing oneself through becoming a stranger. The book weaves South Dakota stories with the author’s experience of living in Daejeon, South Korea as an exchange professor. Haug taught English at South Dakota State University for 30 years.

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Presenters A born cowboy, H. Alan Day grew up on a 200,000-acre cattle ranch straddling the high deserts of southern Arizona and New Mexico. He managed the ranch for 40 years, receiving numerous awards for land stewardship, and shared his experiences in the New York Times bestseller Lazy B, co-authored with his sister, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Day’s latest book, The Horse Lover, tells the story of his South Dakota sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses. From the halls of the White House to the plains of Oklahoma, Lane Dolly brings diverse experiences to

her writing. She served in the administrations of President Ronald Reagan and South Dakota Governors George S. Mickelson and Walter Dale Miller before a master’s degree in public policy led her to history and genealogy. Dolly’s research about an abolitionist ancestor, Hattie Shelton, has led to two historical novels: A Distant Call and No Turning Back.

John Dufresne writes mysteries, but he also helps make writing less mysterious for aspiring authors by leading workshops, teaching in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami, and publishing books on writing and creativity. He

has won the Yankee Magazine award for fiction, the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award, a PEN Syndicated Fiction award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest book is No Regrets, Coyote.

Megan McDonald is the author of the critically acclaimed Judy Moody series and the 2015 Young Readers One Book South Dakota, Stink: Twice as Incredible, which features Judy’s younger brother. She has also written picture

Editor’s note: These bios were unintentionally omitted from the first printing of the Festival guide. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Pictured above: Pulitzer Prize winners Ted Kooser and Marilynne Robinson at the 2006 Festival and Michael Dirda at the 2010 Festival. Other winners who have appeared at the Festival of Books include E. Annie Proulx, Shirley Christian and Deborah Blum.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the 2016 One Book South Dakota will be announced at the 2015 Festival Keynote at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. Honoring Excellence in Journalism and the Arts since 1917

Throughout 2016, the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative will generate grassroots events and conversations across the country about the impact of journalism and the humanities on our lives and times. Visit www.Pulitzer.org.

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Presenters books, novels, The Sisters Club series and the Julie series for American Girl. Before she became a writer, McDonald worked in museums, libraries and bookstores. She also made a living as a storyteller and a park ranger.

American West, he has published numerous articles on state and regional history. His Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 2005 by Westerners International. McLaird’s current research and writing interests include Hugh Glass and Wild Bill Hickok.

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James McLaird is retired from Dakota Wesleyan University, where he taught history for 37 years. A specialist in the history of South Dakota and the

history at the University of NebraskaLincoln and served as project manager of the “Railro a d s a n d t h e Making of Modern America” digital project. A South Dakota native, his hobbies include playing softball, curling, hunting and traveling with his wife, Tiffany, and son, Carter.

Norma C. Wilson published her first poems in the 1970s as a student at the University of Oklahoma. Upon completing a Ph.D. in English there, she taught at the University of South Dakota for 27 years. She has authored the chapbook Under the Rainbow: Poems from Mojácar, edited the anthology Memory, Echo, Words and launched a collaborative exhibit of poetry and mosaics — Rivers, Wings & Sky — with visual artist Nancy Losacker. She lives with her husband, Jerry Wilson, on a prairie bluff northwest of Vermillion.

Editor’s note: These bios were unintentionally omitted from the first printing of the Festival guide. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Presenters Born in California and raised in Minnesota, Pete Hautman is the author of many books for young adults and adults, including the National Book Award-winning Godless and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning The Big Crunch. His most recent work includes the Klaatu Diskos trilogy and the 2015 novel Eden West. Hautman splits his time between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Patrick Hicks, Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, may be best known as a poet. However, he has recently shown his versatility with a novel, The Commandant of Lubizec; a story collection, The Collector of Names; and a poetry collection, Adoptable. Hicks has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize and has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award. Dana Lone Hill is an Oglala Lakota mother, writer and activist who published her first novel, Pointing with Lips, in 2014 and is working on a sequel. Lone Hill’s activism has included the successful campaign to bring the Black Hills sacred site Pe’ Sla under the guardianship of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She is currently promoting a petition to rescind “medals of honor” given to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre. At 18, Pamela Smith Hill sold her first story to her hometown newspaper, and she’s been writing professionally ever since. She is the editor of the runaway bestseller Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, as well as Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life and three award-winning young adult novels. Hill’s popular online courses on Laura Ingalls Wilder, offered through Missouri State University, have reached more than 8,500 students. She lives, teaches and writes in Portland, Ore. Raised in rural South Dakota, Rod Hoffer has been a truck driver for more than 35 years, hauling refrigerated products across the country. His first

book, The Strange Christmas Dream, was born from his active imagination, his love of good books and his desire to entertain his five grandchildren. Hoffer lives in Rapid City with his wife, Judy.

Ron Hogan helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995. Over the years, he’s covered the publishing industry for GalleyCat and Shelf Awareness, written book reviews for the Dallas Morning News and The Daily Beast, served as an acquiring editor at Regan Arts, and co-managed New York City’s first monthly reading series for romance fiction. He’s also the author of Getting Right with Tao: A Contemporary Spin on the Tao Te Ching. Paul Horsted has been photographing South Dakota’s people and places for more than 30 years. His work has appeared in LIFE, Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Smithsonian and South Dakota Magazine. Horsted specializes in finding the sites of historic photographs and creating precisely-matched modern images to show the beauty and history of our country “then and now,” resulting in books such as The Black Hills Yesterday & Today. He is currently working on a book featuring 25 national parks. A prolific author of short stories and essays, Pam Houston most recently published the novel Contents May Have Shifted. Her work has been selected for the O. Henry Awards, the 2013 Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories of the Century. A professor of English at UC Davis, Houston directs the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers and teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program. She lives on a Colorado ranch near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. During a 25-year newspaper career,

Stewart Huntington served

as foreign/national editor for the San Francisco Examiner and publisher of the Black Hills Pioneer in Spearfish while also producing television documentaries. He

now uses new media to explore a passion for moving images and storytelling as a KOTA TV reporter and independent video producer. His first book, A is for Boat, descends directly from his college experience as a cartoonist for The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley. With his wife, Joan, Harold Johnson lives off the grid in northern Saskatchewan, continuing his Cree and Swedish family traditions of trapping and commercial fishing. Johnson’s fiction, including 2015’s Corvus, draws on his connection to the land and the Aboriginal stories that flow from it. His non-fiction Two Families: Treaties and Government examines the relationship between historical treaties and Canadian constitutionalism from a Cree Law perspective. A Crown Prosecutor, Johnson holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University.

Marilyn Johnson’s most recent book is Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, a New York Times bestseller and one of Publishers Weekly’s best 100 books of 2014. Johnson, a long-time Festival presenter with her husband Rob Fleder, is the author of two other works of entertaining non-fiction, The Dead Beat and This Book Is Overdue. While researching her award-winning science books for young people, Rebecca L. Johnson has joined expeditions to Antarctica, gone scuba diving with marine biologists on the Great Barrier Reef, tracked endangered parrots on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island and tagged sea turtles in Costa Rica. Her most recent book is When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses.

William Kent Krueger attended Stanford University before being kicked out for radical activities. He logged timber, worked construction, tried freelance journalism and researched child development before writing the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mystery series, set in the North Woods of Minnesota. His 2013 novel Ordinary Grace was honored with the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, the Barry Award, the Anthony Award and

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Presenters the Macavity Award (known as “the full EBAM”).

Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan tell the story of Sue, the world’s most famous Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, in the book Rex Appeal and the 2014 documentary Dinosaur 13, as well as a children’s book on paleontology. Larson is the founder of the world’s largest independent fossil company, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, which has excavated more T. rex specimens than any other group. Donnan has contributed to magazines, newspapers, IMAX films, television shows and other media and has won several national press awards. Sculptor John Lopez’s new book, John Lopez: Grand River Series, expresses his love of place and family heritage through his current series of hybrid metal art sculptures. Using the rusted carcasses of discarded farm equipment, he has created works sought after by buyers from private individuals to professional horse-breeding farms to Ripley’s Believe it or Not! The book was designed by Sid Spelts, photographer and advertising industry professional, and written by Kristin Donnan, award-winning freelance author and researcher.

Travis Macy is a speaker, coach, professional endurance athlete and author of The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion’s 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life. He holds the record for Leadman, an epic endurance event consisting of a trail running marathon, 50-mile mountain bike race, Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race, 10K road run and Leadville 100 Run, all above 10,200 feet in the Rocky Mountains. Macy lives with his wife and two young children near Evergreen, Colo. Growing up near Valley Forge, Penn., Bill Markley became fascinated with history. Upon moving to Pierre as an adult, he immersed himself in local history and participated in numerous films, including Dances with Wolves. A member of Western Writers of America, Mar-

kley has published numerous articles and non-fiction books, as well as the historical novel Deadwood Dead Men. In addition to traveling in Antarctica, the South Pacific, Alaska and Japan, he has camped, hiked and ridden horseback throughout the West.

Debra Marquart is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University and the senior editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. Her published work includes three poetry collections; a short story collection, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, which draws on her experiences as a female road musician; and the award-winning memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. Marquart’s latest poetry collection is Small Buried Things.

John D. McDermott is a research historian and heritage tourism consultant from Rapid City who has authored 66 professional journal articles and 15 awardwinning books on Western history, including Red Cloud: Oglala Legend. He has been a consultant for several TV and movie documentaries on the American West, including Ken Burns’ 1996 PBS mini-series The West. During his career with the federal government, he authored or co-authored many of the procedures guiding today’s national historic preservation movement.

Kent Meyers is the author of a memoir, a book of short fiction and three novels, most recently Twisted Tree, which won a Society of Midland Authors Award and a High Plains Book Award. He has written for numerous literary journals and magazines, including a recent essay in Harper’s Magazine on the search for dark matter in the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Meyers teaches at Black Hills State University and in Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop. Matthew C. Moen is dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Dakota. He published six academic books before straying into the world of humorous cat tales with Dumb

Bunnies and Expecting Cats. Moen enjoys live theatre and his book club, advocates for liberal arts education and the humanities and shares a portion of the proceeds from his book with local humane societies.

Donald F. Montileaux is a master artist who has rekindled ledger art with a collection of striking images that capture Lakota life. He has illustrated and written numerous books, including 2014’s Tasunka, a retelling of the horse legend in both English and Lakota. A member of the South Dakota Hall of Fame, Montileaux has exhibited his work throughout the country and even sent it into orbit on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1995. A two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Kent Nerburn is the author of 13 books on spirituality and Native American themes, including Simple Truths, Neither Wolf nor Dog (recently produced as a feature film), Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce and, most recently, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo. He lives in Oregon. When Jean L.S. Patrick was 8 years old, she wanted to play baseball for the Chicago Cubs and write books for kids. Although she didn’t accomplish her first dream, she achieved the second with the publication of The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth, the true story of Jackie Mitchell. Her latest book, Four Famous Faces, combines storytelling, non-fiction, poetry and wordplay to bring to life the animals of the Badlands and Black Hills. Comfortable teaching both college students and convicts, poet Jim Reese is an associate professor of English, director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton and editor-inchief of PADDLEFISH. Since 2008, Reese has been one of six artists in residence with the National Endowment for the Arts’ interagency initiative with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His latest poetry collection is Really Happy. An enrolled member of the Standing

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Building Cultural Capital Together

Emily Spartz, Argus Leader

Andrew Turner

The South Dakota Humanities Council and the South Dakota Festival of Books congratulate the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts on the 50th anniversary of the signing on September 29 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. The South Dakota Arts Council was created as a state agency in 1966 with the launch of their first activities in 1967. The first NEH funding was received in 1969 in South Dakota, followed by the creation of the South Dakota Committee on the Humanities as a non-profit and the launch of their office and programs in 1972.

With $18,385,250 in NEH funding and collaboration with South Dakota’s finest cultural organizations*, stimulating and diverse programs have been created. 1972 – present SDHC’s popular grant program has featured An Illustrated History of the Arts in SD, The Stavig Letters, Stained Glass documentary, Cultural Conferences, SD History Field Trips, Teachers’ Institutes, Origin of Edible Fruits on State Reservations, Reconciliation Movement in South Dakota and many other topics of interest. 1980 – present Speakers Bureau program — Dakota Visions I & II — Reflections on the Land jointly produced by SDHC, SD Arts Council and SD State Library. Presentations and workshops featuring SD authors Arthur Amiotte, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Linda Hasselstrom, Allison Hedge Coke, Kent Meyers and Dan O’Brien.

ark your M calendar — 50th Anniversary Feature! “Judicial Voices Project: Capturing Histories of the South Dakota Supreme Court on its 125th Anniversary,” Sept. 17, 2015 Constitution Day event at the USD School of Law Courtroom. Visit nativeede.wix.com/ judicialvoices and contact john.glover@usd.edu for more information.

2002 – present The South Dakota Center for the Book was established and in 2003 produced its first Festival of Books and introduced its first One Book South Dakota. The Center has hosted many outstanding writers and cultural figures, such as Sherman Alexie, Deborah Amos, Roy Blount Jr., Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Neal Conan, Pete Dexter, Kate DiCamillo, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Ian Frazier, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, Kathleen Norris, E. Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson and many outstanding South Dakota authors. 2006 – 2010 NEA funded SDHC as the first of 10 pilot “Big Read” sites followed by several Big Read projects in Aberdeen, Madison, Martin, Mitchell, Pierre, Ridgeview, Scotland, Sioux Falls and Spearfish. 2009 featured a visit to Egypt and 2010 featured the Big Read Egypt/U.S. Student Exchange. 2010 NEH Chairman James Leach made presentations in Vermillion and Sioux Falls as part of the “Bridging Cultures: America and the Muslim World” initiative. 2012 SDHC 40th Anniversary project — What Makes a South Dakotan? Winner of the American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit. 2014 Commemorating 125 years of statehood through a North and South Dakota One Book selection — Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. 2014 – 2015 Young Readers Festival and Young Readers One Book launched.

The South Dakota Humanities Council celebrates literature, promotes civil conversation and tells the stories that define our state. *In partnership with Arts Midwest, Center for Western Studies, Children’s Museum of South Dakota, South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota Arts Council, South Dakota Humanities Council, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, South Dakota State Agricultural Heritage Museum, South Dakota State Historical Society, South Dakota State Library, South Dakota Symphony, South Dakota World Affairs Council, Washington Pavilion

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Presenters Rock Sioux Tribe and a native Chicagoan, Susan Power is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has published two novels, The Grass Dancer and Sacred Wilderness, and one story collection, Roofwalker. The Grass Dancer was awarded a PEN/Hemingway Prize in 1995 and Roofwalker a Milkweed National Fiction Prize in 2002. She lives in St. Paul, Minn. While teaching at South Dakota State University, Meredith Redlin , Christine Stewart and Julie Barst embarked on a four-year project examining the insights of women’s studies scholars. The result is Action, Influence and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women, a mixture of creative pieces, scholarly articles and interviews conducted by Redlin, a professor of sociology at SDSU, and her graduate students. Stewart is an associate professor of English at SDSU and Barst is now an assistant professor of English at Siena Heights University in Michigan.

Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of four volumes of poetry: Dandarians, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Year of the Snake and Beyond Heart Mountain. Her honors include the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004 and the National Poetry Series Award for 1998. Roripaugh is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and editor-inchief of South Dakota Review. An avid local historian, Judge Arthur Rusch spent 22 years practicing law in Vermillion, including four terms as States Attorney. In 1994 he was appointed a Circuit Judge, and in 1995 he became the Presiding Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Rusch’s first book is County Capitols: The Courthouses of South Dakota. The publication of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee and its companion book for young readers, I Am Scout, made Charles Shields a world-re-

nowned expert on one of America’s most beloved authors. His 2006 biography of Lee, the first ever published, is receiving renewed attention because of the excitement and controversy over the publication of Lee’s “lost” manuscript, Go Set a Watchman. Shields has written more than 20 biographies, mostly of American writers. Born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has both Sioux and Ponca heritage. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2000 and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from South Dakota State University in 2008. Sneve’s many books include The Trickster and the Troll, When Thunders Spoke and Lana’s Lakota Moons, and she has also published numerous shorter pieces. Her most recent books are The Christmas Coat and Standing Bear of the Ponca.

Garth Stein is the author of four novels, including his latest, A Sudden Light. His previous novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain, was a New York Times and international bestseller. Stein is the co-founder of Seattle7Writers, a nonprofit collective of Northwest authors working to foster a passion for the written word. He lives in Seattle with his family. The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Lincoln, Mass. He has worked as a reporter at The Christian Science Monitor, The Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post, and as a national field producer for The MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. He now writes mysteries and runs a public relations and strategic communications business. All three of his mystery novels, including 2015’s Trapline, have been finalists for the Colorado Book Award.

Faith Sullivan is the author of seven award-winning novels, including the national bestseller The Cape Ann and the just-released Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse. A demon gardener, flea marketer, and feeder of birds, Sullivan was born and raised in southern Minnesota. An indefatigable champion of literary culture

and her fellow writers, she has visited well over 1,000 book clubs. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband. A master educator and specialist in life story, Denice Turner received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nevada, Reno and teaches at Black Hills State University. Her work explores the healing dimensions of writing as well as the social geographies that complicate writing. Turner’s most recent book is Worthy: A Memoir. She lives in Spearfish.

Ann Weisgarber lives near Houston, Texas, but is drawn to stories set in isolated landscapes. Her latest novel, The Promise, takes place on Galveston Island during the 1900 hurricane, the worst natural disaster in America. A Barnes and Noble Discover New Writer, Weisgarber has been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Fiction. The film rights for her first novel have been optioned by actress Viola Davis. For his latest book, Fire Season, Miles Wilson draws on his three seasons with the Dalton Hotshots, a U.S. Forest Service Interregional Fire Crew based on the Angeles National Forest in California. Recognition for his previous work includes the John Simmons Short Fiction Award from the University of Iowa Press for Line of Fall and the Violet Crown Book Award from the Writer’s League of Texas/ Barnes & Noble for Harm. Wilson teaches at Texas State University. With more than 60 children’s books to her name, including Baby Bear Sees Blue and the beloved Miss Bindergarten series, Ashley Wolff has been an artist since she declared herself one at age 5. A native of Middlebury, Vt., she received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and did graphic design for newspapers before becoming a full-time author/illustrator. She also paints indoor and outdoor murals throughout the San Francisco Bay area, where she lives and teaches.

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New Young Readers Lending Library Young people who want to share their reading experience with others can do so more easily now that SDHC has developed a Lending Library for Young Readers. Thus far, the library consists of the first two Young Readers One Book South Dakota selections: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and Stink: Twice as Incredible (a special bind-in of the first two titles in the Stink Moody series) by Megan McDonald. The lending library operates on the same rules as SDHC’s Reading Group Toolkit program. For a quick grant fee of $50, groups interested in participating in a reading program can receive up to 30 copies of either title and, if they wish, can have a scholar lead their book discussion. This lending library is available for book clubs organized by individuals, libraries, schools, bookstores, museums and other nonprofit organizations. Interested groups can apply online at www. sdhumanities.org four weeks before the program will take place.

Young Readers South Dakota Festival of Books Thursday, Sept. 24, Rapid City; Friday-Saturday, Sept. 25-26, Lead – Deadwood area Headlined by Megan McDonald, author of the 2015 Young Readers One Book South Dakota, Stink: Twice as Incredible. Featured Authors Ann Bausum Chris Browne Pete Hautman Rod Hoffer Stewart Huntington Rebecca L. Johnson

Megan McDonald Donald Montileaux Jean Patrick Charles Shields Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Ashley Wolff

The South Dakota Humanities Council distributed copies of Megan McDonald’s Stink: Twice as Incredible to second-grade students across western South Dakota in advance of the 2015 Young Readers South Dakota Festival of Books in Rapid City on Sept. 24 and Deadwood on Sept. 25-26. Students from the following school districts received copies of the book: • Belle Fourche • Bennett County (Martin) • Custer • Douglas (Ellsworth) • Edgemont • Hill City • Hot Springs • Lead-Deadwood

• Meade (Sturgis) • New Underwood • Newell • Rapid City Area • Shannon County (Pine Ridge) • Spearfish • Todd County (Rosebud) • Wall

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Wednesday, Sept. 23 Keystone, 6:30-8 pm – Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Carver’s Café, 13000 S.D. 244 – Love Letters from Mount Rushmore – Richard Cerasani (Caine) Rapid City, 7-9 pm – Barefoot Dance Studio, 412 5th St. – Pillow Talk with Women Behaving Badly – Brittany Gibbons & Stacey Agdern

Thursday, Sept. 24 Deadwood, 5-6:30 pm – Deadwood Public Library, 435 Williams St. – Women Behaving Badly Among the Books – Brittany Gibbons & Stacey Agdern in conversation with Marilyn Johnson Lead, 6:30-9 pm – Historic Homestake Opera House, 313 W. Main St. – Festival Fundraiser & Author Reception – TICKET REQUIRED ($50)

Last year, second grade students received copies of Stink: Twice as Incredible by this year’s Young Readers One Book author Megan McDonald. As third graders this year they will be invited to see the author at the Rapid City Central Theatre and the Historic Homestake Opera House in Lead. All grade levels are invited on the field trips to meet authors in Deadwood, Lead, Keystone and Spearfish.

Young Readers Festival Events

For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival in Rapid City and Deadwood, call Jennifer Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715.

Thursday, Sept. 24

Rapid City Public Library

Dahl Arts Center

2nd Floor Meeting Room

Cyclorama Mural Room

10 – 10:50 am

Labor Fights, Civil Rights and the Death of Martin Luther King (Ann Bausum)

The Strange Christmas Dream: Writing for Family (Rod Hoffer)

11 – 11:50 am

World Building & Fantasy in YA Literature (Pete Hautman)

Picturing Stories with Baby Bear & Miss Bindergarten (Ashley Wolff)

1 – 1:50 pm Stonewall Stories (Ann

A Is for Boat: The Crazy English Language (Stewart Huntington)

2 – 2:50 pm I Am a Man: Standing Bear

Picturing Stories with Baby Bear & Miss Bindergarten (Ashley Wolff)

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of the Ponca (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

Thursday Special Event Rapid City, 4:30-5:30 pm – Dahl Arts Center, 713 7th St. – Young Readers One Book Keynote: Reading Is Super-Galactic with Stink! – Megan McDonald

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Friday, Sept. 25 KEY: Children’s/Y.A. | Fiction | HistorY/Tribal Writing non-fiction | Poetry | Writers’ Support Events take place in Deadwood unless otherwise noted.

Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center

10 am

11 am

1 pm

2 pm

Exhibitors’ Hall Open 1-5:30 pm 1:30-3:00 Pitchapalooza with The Book Doctors (Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry) BOOK PURCHASE REQUIRED TO PITCH ($16.99)

Prospector Room

Hotel Conference Room

Workshop - Writing and The Wheel of the Year (Linda Hasselstrom) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Workshop - Flash Fiction: Writing the Short Short Story (John Dufresne) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Love Letters from Mount Rushmore (Richard Cerasani)

Rivers, Wings & Sky (Nancy Losacker & Norma Wilson)

Exploring with Custer: The 1874 Expedition (Paul Horsted)

A Family of Storytellers: Four Siblings Discuss How and Why They Write (Mary Woster Haug, Jim Woster, Kevin Woster & Terry Woster)

Friday Special Events 1:30-1:45 pm – Downtown Deadwood – Ink-Slinger Shootout – William Kent Krueger, Sandra Brannan & Deadwood Alive 2-3:30 pm – William Walsh & Jo RoebuckPearson Home, 36 Lincoln St. – Author Tea & Historic Home Tour – Pete Dexter, Pamela

Smith Hill & Ann Weisgarber. Participants are invited to wear their favorite hats. TICKET REQUIRED ($100) 3-3:15 pm – Downtown Deadwood – InkSlinger Shootout – William Kent Krueger, Sandra Brannan & Deadwood Alive 3:30-4:30 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Early Bird Mass Book Signing

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Times and presenters are subject to change. Check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

Deadwood Public Library Bill’s Backstage Bar

Writ(John IRED SDPB Live Broadcast - Dakota Midday Book Club with Festival Authors

Main Floor

Downstairs

Workshop - Life-Writing: Emotion On and Off the Page (Denice Turner) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Workshop - Boot Camp for Budding Children’s Illustrators (Ashley Wolff) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

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South Dakota’s Courthouse Wars (Arthur Rusch)

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Therapeutic Writing for Veterans (Ron Capps)

Franklin Hotel Emerald Room Workshop - Writing Poetry (Lee Ann Roripaugh) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Western Writers of America: What Is It and What Can It Do for You? (Bill Markley)

4:30-5:30 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Young Readers One Book Keynote: Reading Is Super-Galactic with Stink! – Megan McDonald

7:30-9 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Opening Keynote: Can’t Get There From Here? (Seriously?) My Path to Authorship – Garth Stein

5:30-7:15 pm – Martin & Mason Hotel, 1898 Grand Ballroom – Authors, Appetizers & Aperitifs – Lin Enger, Pam Houston, Susan Power – TICKET REQUIRED ($35)

7:30-9 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room – Open Mic – South Dakota State Poetry Society 29

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Saturday, Sept. 26

Events take place in Deadwood unless otherwise noted.

Sat., Sept. 26

Deadwood Mountain Grand

Event Center 9 – 9:45 am

Prospector Room

Exhibitors’ Hall open 9 am – 4 pm

What about Fiction? That Guy Lives in Ruins: The World Wolf Dancing (Elizabeth Cookof Archaeologists (MariLynn) lyn Johnson)

It’s All About the Rock: 10 – 10:45 am Creativity in Pursuit of Truth (Garth Stein)

The Black Hills Yesterday & Today Through Photographs (Paul Horsted)

Confessions of a Literary Natives of a Dry 11 – Place (Richard 11:45 am Biographer: What I’ve Learned About Authors, Writing and Getting Published (Charles Shields)

Lunch with Laura: Pio12 – 12:45 pm neer Girl and the Legacy

of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pamela Smith Hill) OPTIONAL Sack Lunch Available WITH TICKET ($10)

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Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years (Ron Capps)

Hotel Conference Room

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The Strange Christmas Dream: Writing for Family (Rod Hoffer)

The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs (H. Alan Day)

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Writing for Children About Native Culture (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

Romanticization of the West in Literature (Lin Enger)

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Landscape: A Story’s Best and Most Versatile Character (Ann Weisgarber, William Kent Krueger & Kent Meyers)

Finding the Short Story: The Writing Process (Ron Carlson)

A Is for Boat: Why Is Language So Capricious? (Stewart Huntington)

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 (Jerome Greene)

Picture Play (J

Tired of Reaching the Same Audience? Writing Across Genres (Joseph Bottum & Matthew Moen)

I Don’t Like Where This is Going: A Reading (John Dufresne)

Creating Tasunka: From Story and Image to Published Book (Donald Montileaux)

An Historian’s Adventure: Researching the Indian Wars (John McDermott)

Will W Cease Fiction Reade Johns

Corn Maze: The Line Between Fiction & Non-Fiction (Pam Houston)

Theme: The Core of Story (Denice Turner)

How to Get Published Successfully (Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry)

Where From? fying Y (Ashle

Elements of Crime Fiction (Tom Bouman, Sandra Brannan & Mark Stevens)

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3 – 3:45 pm

You’ve Already Completed the World’s Toughest Race: Lessons in Resiliency from Adventure Racing (Travis Macy)

Ed Lemmon & Open Range Cattle Ranching (Nathan Sanderson)

The Writer and the Editor: Happy Marriage or Shotgun Wedding? (Pete Dexter & Rob Fleder)

I Myself Am a Work Creativity & Its Processes (Kent of Fiction: The Meyers) Odd Life of Kurt Vonnegut (Charles Shields)

1-1:50 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Mass Book Signing 4-5:30 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Bill’s Backstage Bar – Happy Hour for Readers & Writers featuring LITERARY LOOT! For a donation to the South Dakota Humanities Council, enter to win items and experiences from your favorite Festival authors! Take home a signed pair of Travis Macy’s running shoes, worn in an ultra-race! Have a character named after you in a book by John Dufresne or Susan Power!

Skype with Ron Capps or Marilyn Johnson! Win a signed original illustration from Ashley Wolff or a large photographic print by Paul Horsted! And MORE! 5:30-7 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Introducing South Dakota’s new Poet Laureate, Lee Ann Roripaugh, with outgoing Poet Laureate David Allan Evans, and finalists Patrick Hicks, Jim Reese and Norma Wilson. Sponsored by the South Dakota State Poetry Society. This event will begin with the presen-

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Transformative Justice: Poetry in Prisons (Jim Reese)

Fire Season: From Promoting Your Work Experience to Fic- on Social Media (Stacey tion (Miles Wilson) Agdern, Ann Charles & Ron Hogan)

10-11:30 am – Homestake Adams Research & Cultural Center (Mary Adams Lecture Hall) – Calamity Jane: Wild West Legend (Richard Etulain & James McLaird)

Downstairs

Deadwood City Hall

Storytelling through Sculpture, Photography, Design & Words (John Lopez, Sid Spelts & Kristin Donnan)

The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: Thoughts on the End of a Trilogy (Kent Nerburn)

9:30-9:50 am – Homestake Adams Research & Cultural Center (Mary Adams Lecture Hall) – Historical Research: Sources, Stresses and Surprises (Pamela Smith Hill & John McDermott)

Main Floor

Building One World Action, Influence & with Multiple Series Voice: Contemporary (Ann Charles) South Dakota Women (Julie Barst, Meredith Redlin, Christine Stewart & collaborators)

2 – 2:45 pm

Saturday Special Events

Deadwood Public Library

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To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com. Times and presenters are subject to change. Please check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates.

Lead-Deadwood Elementary

City

Auditorium

Library

Franklin Hotel Martin & Mason Hotel Saloon #10/Deadwood Social Club Gymnasium

Emerald Room

1898 Ballroom

Charlie Utter Theater

Four Quarters to a Section: Readings from the South Dakota State Poetry Society Anthology

The Collector of Names: A Reading (Patrick Hicks)

Book to Film: When Hollywood Comes Calling (Kent Nerburn & Ann Weisgarber)

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Writing Believable Teen Characters (Pete Hautman)

Write What You Don’t Know (Mark Stevens)

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Stonewall Stories (Ann Bausum)

No Turning Back: Building Stories from Research (Lane Dolly)

Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse: Reading About Reading (Faith Sullivan)

Dandarians: A Reading (Lee Ann Roripaugh)

Fat Girl Walking … Toward Self-Acceptance (Brittany Gibbons)

Dances With Wolves: Reflecting on My Experiences after 25 Years (Bill Markley)

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Picture Books & Word Play (Jean Patrick)

Telling Our Own Stories: Native Americans and Fiction (Dana Lone Hill)

Publicizing Your Work: What Authors Can Do, How Editors & Publishers Can Help (H. Alan Day & Ron Hogan)

Mortal Leaps and Other Recent Work: A Reading (David Allan Evans)

Everything in the Universe Is a Story, Including You and I (Harold Johnson)

Screening & Discussion: Temples of Justice (Arthur Rusch & Stephanie Rissler, SDPB)

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Will Wonders Never Cease? Using NonFiction to Inspire Young Readers (Rebecca L. Johnson)

We’re Not Just Warriors: Honoring 20th Century Sioux Scholarship (Elizabeth Cook-Lynn)

The Truth About Romance Novels, Exposed (Stacey Agdern)

Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet (Twyla Hansen & Linda Hasselstrom)

Harvard Indian Séance: Writing a Ghost Novel Inspired by Actual Events (Susan Power)

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Where Do Ideas Come From? Finding and Clarifying Your Own Stories (Ashley Wolff)

Poetry and Songwriting (Debra Marquart)

The Great Guessing Game: What Will Sell Like Pioneer Girl? (Marilyn Johnson & Dave Strain, Dakota West Books)

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The Monster Who Ate the State (Chris Browne)

Memory, Echo, Words: Readings (Norma Wilson & contributors)

The Novel as Protestant Art (Joseph Bottum)

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Tea with Julie, Judy Moody and Friends (American Girl and Young Readers One Book South Dakota Author Megan McDonald) TICKET REQUIRED ($15)

Screening & Discussion: Dinosaur 13 (Peter Larson & Kristin Donnan)

tation of the 2015 Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Awards.

Sunday, Sept. 27

7:30-9 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – One Book South Dakota Keynote: Mystery & Spirituality: An Unlikely Pairing – William Kent Krueger in conversation with Sandra Brannan

10-11 am – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Book Lovers’ Brunch – TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

8-9:30 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Prospector Room – Beat Poetry Celebration (in conjunction with the National Beat Poetry Festival)

11 am-12 pm – Deadwood Mountain Grand, Event Center – Closing Keynote: Writing the Environment – From the steady creep of urban sprawl to the sudden changes in and around the Bakken oil fields, the land around us is in constant flux. Writers play an integral role in recording and even influencing this evolution. – Richard Edwards, Linda Hasselstrom & Debra Marquart 31

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Exhibitors’ Hall AUTHORS

Jan Berkhout, Vermillion, SD

Jenny Peterson, Vermillion, SD, shewalkedbyfaith.com

Paula Blasius, Wall, SD

Roger Quam, Sioux Falls, SD

Colleen Brezny, Rapid City, SD, invisibleroom.com

Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD

Linda Cundy, Madison, SD, lindacundy.tateauthor.com

J.E. “Scotty” Terrall, Books by Terrall, Custer, SD

Olaf Danielson, Milbank, SD, olafdanielson.com

Kelly Van Hull, Sioux Falls, SD, kellyvanhull.com

Ellen Jean Diederich, Givinity Press, Fargo, ND, givinity.com

Katy Webb, Watertown, SD

Brenda Donelan, Sioux Falls, SD, brendadonelan.com Barb Evenson, Black Hills Books, Rapid City, SD Nathan D. Gjovik, Rapid City, SD, ndgjovik.tateauthor.com Scott Haynes, Newcastle, WY, roadietheranchdog.bigcartel.com Noreen Harrison, Belle Fourche, SD Dillon A. Haug, Spearfish, SD Paul Horsted, Custer, SD, paulhorsted.com Jeannie Hudson, Spearfish, SD, historicalauthor.wordpress.com Joanna Jones, Spearfish, SD, jonesliterature.com Jaclyn Kennison, J Lanae Freelance, Rapid City, SD, authorjaclynlanae.com Joe Krogman, Eagan, MN, joekrogman.com Jonas Lee, Rapid City, SD, jonasleeblog.com Evelyn Leite, Living with Solutions, Rapid City, SD, livingwithsolutions.biz Coleen Liebsch, PS Publishing, Arlington, SD Bill Markley, Pierre, SD, billmarkley.com Marcia Mitchell, Maxmillion House Publishing, Hill City, SD, themitchellbooks.com Chris Muller, Rapid City, SD, remshaybooks.com John Nemec, Midland, SD

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Lois Sayre, L&L Books, Sioux Falls, SD

Joyce Wheeler, Philip, SD, prairieflowerbooks.com Mary Yungeberg, Valley Springs, SD, maryyungeberg.com

BOOKSELLERS & Publishers

Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD, augie.edu/cws Mitzi’s Books/Prairie Edge, Rapid City, SD, mitzisbooks.com Top Dog Publishing, Rapid City, SD, top-dog-publishing.com University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, nebraskapress.unl.edu Usborne Books & More, Hudson, SD, patsysbookstore.com

ORGANIZATIONS

Booth Society, Inc., Spearfish, SD, dcboothfishhatchery.org Christian Science Committee on Publication, Rapid City, SD Minglewood Studios, Sioux Falls, SD, minglewoodstudios.com Quirks, LLC, Sioux Falls, SD, facebook.com/sdquirks REACH Literacy, Sioux Falls, SD, reachliteracy.org SD Hall of Fame, sdhalloffame.com SD Public Broadcasting, sdpb.org SD State Poetry Society, sdstatepoetrysociety.wordpress.com Western Writers of America, westernwriters.org

The Exhibitors’ Hall is located in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Event Center. Open from 1 to 5:30 pm on Friday and 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday.

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Celebrating 13 Years! September 24-27, 2015 Rapid City & Deadwood, S D www .sdbookfestival. com 605-688-6113 Presenting Partners

A special thanks to all of the donors and volunteers who support South Dakota Humanities Council programs.

Tribute Sponsors

The Ament Group at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Terry & Sheryl Baloun | Black Hills Power | Sandra Brannan | Dahl Arts Center Dakota Indian Foundation | Dakota West Books, Dave Strain | Days of ’76 Museum Deadwood City Hall | Deadwood Mountain Grand — a Holiday Inn Resort Deadwood Public Library | Deadwood Social Club, Charlie Utter Theater Sherry & Tom DeBoer | Holly Downing | Franklin Hotel Friends of the South Dakota Humanities Council | Phoebe Apperson Hearst Library Historic Adams Research and Cultural Center | Historic Homestake Opera House Historic Matthews Opera House | Joe & Jennifer Kirby Charitable Fund of the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation | Lead-Deadwood Elementary School Martin & Mason Hotel | Matthews Opera House & Arts Center | Jason McEntee Lori McGuire | Hon. Judith Meierhenry | Mark & Carolyn Mollers Mount Rushmore Bookstores | Mount Rushmore National Memorial | Jean & Tom Nicholson Pioneer Bank & Trust/F.L. Clarkson Family Foundation | Rapid City Arts Council Rapid City Public Library | Steven W. Sanford | Sanford Underground Research Facility Scott & Linda Rausch | South Dakota State University Office of the President Jerry & Gail Simmons | Jack & Linda Stengel | Orval Van Deest, in honor of Violet Van Deest William Walsh & Jo Roebuck-Pearson | Ann & Robert Weisgarber

Gerry Berger Law

Save the Date: 14th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books September 22 – 25, 2016, sioux falls and Brookings

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