Ann Arbor Book Festival

Literati is thrilled to once again be part of the Ann Arbor Book Festival. Stay tuned to this space for times and locations of events with the following fantastic authors:

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and formerly the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2010-2016) and the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen’s College, University of Oxford (2014-2015). She won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2009), a subject she had previously written about in Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (University Press of Virginia, 1997). She is also the author of Andrew Johnson (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010). Her most recently published book (with Peter S. Onuf) is “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (Liveright Publishing, 2016). Her honors include a fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, and the Woman of Power & Influence Award from the National Organization for Women in New York City. Gordon-Reed was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and is a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Edward McClelland is the author of How to Speak Midwestern, Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President and Nothin’ But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America’s Industrial Heartland. Ted’s writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon, Slate, and the Nation.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of three novels, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island and House Arrest. A former nurse practitioner, part-time bookseller, and literary late bloomer, Ellen’s short fiction and essay publications include Guernica, The Writer, Bridges, DoveTales, Pedestal, Rumpus, Portland Magazine and The Writers Chronicle. Her dramatic script “Carry it Forward” telling the story of the Rosenberg Fund for Children was produced in 2013 in New York. Ellen holds an MFA in fiction from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She is a founding member and current Board President of Straw Dog Writers Guild.

Christina Olson is the author of the forthcoming collection of poetry Terminal Human Velocity (Stillhouse Press, 2017); the poetry collection Before I Came Home Naked (Spire Press, 2010); the poetry chapbook Weird Science (Paper Nautilus Press, 2016); and Rook & The M.E., a chapbook of narrative flash prose loosely based on the television show Law & Order (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015). Her writing appears in the anthologies The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume Three, American Creative Writers on Class, Writing That Risks, and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Her poems “Lost” and “To the Stars, Through Difficulties,” have been featured on Verse Daily. Gerald Stern chose her as the winner of The Dirty Napkin’s Poetry Prize, and she has been awarded full fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Willapa Bay AiR.

Adam Schuitema is the author of the short-story collections The Things We Do That Make No Sense (2017) and Freshwater Boys (2010) and the novel Haymaker (2015). His works have twice been named Michigan Notable Books by the Library of Michigan. Adam’s stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including Glimmer Train, North American Review, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, and The Southern Review. He earned his MFA and Ph.D. from Western Michigan University and is an associate professor of English at Kendall College of Art and Design. Adam lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife and daughter.