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Description of Pictures: Come to the Literary Hill BookFest on Sunday, May 4th from 11am-3pm at the North Hall, Eastern Market (225 7th Street, SE) for another great afternoon of discussions, readings, and signings with Capitol Hill's best writers of memoirs and fiction, politics and poetry, history and sports, food and fantasy--and books for kids!
Folks pictured here include Garrett Peck, Stephen H. Grant, Gene Weingarten, Mary Z. Gray, Paris Singer, Robert Pohl, Jonathan Bardzik, Jack Colhoun, Abby Arthur Johnson, Ronald Maberry Johnson, Cathy Travis, John R. Wennersten, Katy Kelly, Myrina McCullough, Simeon Booker, Benjamin Soskis, Bill Walsh, Christopher Datta, Tom Dunkel, Elizabeth Becker, Quintin Peterson, Anu Keene, Janine K. Spendlove, Frank Pietrucha, Louis Bayard, John Muller, and Lovey Marie Guillory, and Bill Walsh
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LHBF_140504_010.JPG: GARRETT PECK
Garrett Peck is a literary journalist, independent historian, and author of four books: Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't; The Potomac River: A History and Guide; its sequel, The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca Quarry, and his latest, Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C. He leads tours of the Seneca quarry, as well as the Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites in the nation's capital.
Website: http://www.garrettpeck.com/Garrett_Peck.com/Welcome.html
LHBF_140504_011.JPG: (left) Stephen Grant and (right) John Franzen
STEPHEN H. GRANT
Stephen H. Grant has been researching the story of Henry and Emily Folger since 2007 and the resulting book, Collecting Shakespeare, is a thorough but lively account of the two inveterate Shakespeare enthusiasts who founded the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. A former career Foreign Service officer, Grant is currently a senior fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and author of Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal.
Website: http://stephenhgrant.com/
LHBF_140504_014.JPG: GENE WEINGARTEN
Gene Weingarten has been called "the O. Henry of American journalism." A nationally-syndicated writer of the Below the Beltway humor column and Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Washington Post, his books include The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life and Death, I'm With Stupid (with Gina Barreca), Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs, and The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts, which includes the prize-winning piece that one critic has called "the greatest feature story ever written." With his son Dan and David Clarke, he also writes the daily newspaper comic strip ‘Barney& Clyde,' about a friendship between a billionaire and a bum. He is currently working on a book about the events of Sunday, December 28, 1986, a date chosen at random by picking numbers out of a hat -- which he agrees is an insane idea but says he can use all the tips he can get.
LHBF_140504_023.JPG: MARY Z. GRAY
Mary Z. Gray was born on Capitol Hill in 1919 and grew up above the family funeral parlor at 301 East Capitol, which inspired the title of her 2012 memoir. A journalist and speech writer, she has written for the Washington Post and The New York Times, served in the Kennedy-Johnson White House and on a Presidential committee, and wrote speeches for Cabinet members and members of Congress. Her book, 301 East Capitol Street: Tales from the Heart of the City, is the first title published by the Overbeck History Press.
LHBF_140504_037.JPG: PARIS SINGER
Paris Singer's first book, Lunch with Diogenes: The Greek Philosopher and the Dog, written with her son Adam Russell, is about the lessons she learned from Diogenes, a rescue mutt turned philosopher dog. The book pairs photos of Diogenes with wise, witty, and surprisingly contemporary quotations from the fourth-century BC Greek philosopher. "We hope it is a good book for the friends, family."
Website: http://www.PhilosopherDog.com
Facebook: http://Facebook.com/ThePhilosopherDog
Instagram: @lunchwithdiogenes
LHBF_140504_065.JPG: ROBERT POHL
Robert Pohl researches and writes about Capitol Hill history, including a popular series of columns for the Hill Rag. He is founding partner of Walking Shtick Tours of DC, author of The History of 219 11th St SE Washington DC, Wicked Capitol Hill: An Unruly History of Behaving Badly, and co-author with John Wennersten of Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery in the District of Columbia. In his latest offering, Urban Legends and Historic Lore of Washington, D.C., he discusses -- and debunks -- many of the myths that have grown up around the nation's capital.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobertPohlAuthor
Twitter: @RSP_DC
LHBF_140504_083.JPG: JONATHAN BARDZIK
Jonathan Bardzik has developed a loyal following of foodies who gather to watch his Saturday cooking demonstrations at Eastern Market, where he whips up creative dishes using the fresh ingredients from that week's farmers and purveyors. A cook, storyteller, and writer living in Washington, D.C., Bardzik shares his passion for food in a cookbook, Simple Summer, which contains dozens of easy-to-follow, illustrated recipes as well as tips for cooking and entertaining with ease.
Website: http://www.Jonathanbardzik.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhatIHaventCookedYet
Twitter: @JonathanBardzik
LHBF_140504_116.JPG: (left) Jack Colhoun and (right) Ronald Maberry Johnson
JACK COLHOUN
Jack Colhoun is an independent historian of the Cold War, an investigative reporter and professional archival researcher. His 2013 book, Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba, and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966, which tells the story of the making and unmaking of a gangster state in Cuba in the 1930s, is the result of 18 years of his intensive research at national archives and presidential libraries.
ABBY ARTHUR JOHNSON AND RONALD MABERRY JOHNSON
Abby Arthur Johnson and Ronald Maberry Johnson have long been partners in the research of historical and cultural topics. Their most recent book is In the Shadow of the United States Capitol: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation (2012). They also wrote Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century (rev. ed., 1991) and have published essays and presented scholarly papers on African-American literary and historical topics. Abby is an Adjunct Professor of Liberal Studies and Ronald is a Professor Emeritus of American History at Georgetown University.
LHBF_140504_123.JPG: CATHY TRAVIS
Cathy Travis worked on Capitol Hill for 25 years as a communications director, senior advisor, and political consultant for various members of Congress until her early retirement. She is the author of the award-winning Constitution Translated for Kids, which The Washington Post has called "enlightenment for all," and she recently embarked on digital publishing with a series of books: Target Sitting (a diary of 9/11), Remember Who You Are, Elected (a novel), and Manifesto: Staffing Capitol Hill. Her newest book, The Reunion, is about the kidnapping of a Peace Corps worker in Azerbaijan.
Website: http://www.travisbooks.com
LHBF_140504_137.JPG: JOHN R. WENNERSTEN
John R. Wennersten is professor emeritus at the University of Maryland and was a senior fellow in Environmental History at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History. His works include The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay, which won the Maryland Writers Prize in nonfiction, Anacostia: The Death and Life of An American River, and Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. His forthcoming book, scheduled for publication in April, is The Historic Washington Waterfront, which explores the role of the Potomac and Anacostia river waterfront as both a gateway and a barrier to economic, maritime, and racial progress.
LHBF_140504_145.JPG: KATY KELLY
Katy Kelly has published eight books for young readers, including Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me, Lucy Rose: Big On Plans, Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe, Lucy Rose: Working Myself to Pieces & Bits, Melonhead, Melonhead and the Big Stink, and Melonhead and the Undercover Operation, Melonhead and the Vegalicious Disaste, and her latest, Melonhead and the We-Fix-It Company. Katy's books are set on Capitol Hill, where she grew up.
Website: http://katykellyauthor.com
LHBF_140504_156.JPG: MYRINA MCCULLOUGH
Myrina McCullough is the author of many children's stories published in American children's magazines, as well as her 2013 book, Feet, about a little boy in Mali. She lived in Bamako, Mali, in West Africa for thirteen years before returning to D.C. with her three children.
LHBF_140504_158.JPG: SIMEON BOOKER
As a reporter for Jet magazine (and its sister publication, Ebony) for more than fifty years, Washington bureau chief Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the civil rights movement that transformed America. His remarkable history is recounted in Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement, written with his wife Carol McCabe Booker. As Newsweek's Eleanor Clift notes, "Shocking the Conscience should be required reading for every young person. Booker describes with journalistic detail the Emmett Till trial. He was there. This is history as it was lived and observed by one of journalism's giants."
LHBF_140504_171.JPG: BENJAMIN SOSKIS
Benjamin Soskis is co-author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Biography of the Song That Marches On, which has been called a "vivid…engaging…and entertaining tale" (The Wall Street Journal). He is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Policy at George Mason University, and has taught at George Washington University and the University of California, Washington Center. His writing has appeared in The New Republic, the New York Times, and Slate.com.
LHBF_140504_180.JPG: BILL WALSH
Bill Walsh is a copy editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1997. He is a regular presenter at the annual conferences of the American Copy Editors Society and the author of three hilarious books on grammar and usage: Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print -- and How to Avoid Them, The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English, and his latest, Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk.
Website: http://www.theslot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/copyslot
Twitter: @theslot
LHBF_140504_219.JPG: Gina
LHBF_140504_258.JPG: CHRISTOPHER DATTA
Christopher Datta is a poet and writer who has enjoyed a distinguished career with the State Department, with postings in Lebanon, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and, most recently, as acting ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan. He is also a lifelong student of the American Civil War, an interest reflected in his debut novel, Touched With Fire, which was inspired by the true story of a slave named Ellen Craft who escapes to the North by disguising herself as a man. He is currently at work on a new novel, The Demon Stone.
Website: http://www.touchedwithfire.org
LHBF_140504_265.JPG: "Dogs and Philosophers do the greatest good."
-- Diogenes, 323 BC
LHBF_140504_302.JPG: TOM DUNKEL
Tom Dunkel is a long-time contributor to The Washington Post Magazine and a former staff feature writer for the Baltimore Sun. His freelance credits include The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, and The Wall Street Journal. Of his first book, Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Gene Weingarten wrote, "Give an exceptional storyteller an exceptional story to tell, and you just might wind up with a book as good as Tom Dunkel's Color Blind."
LHBF_140504_310.JPG: ELIZABETH BECKER
Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning author and former correspondent for The New York Times who began her career as a war correspondent covering Cambodia for The Washington Post. The Financial Times said of her first book When The War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer that "Becker writes history the way history should be written." Her latest book is Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism, which examines the global impact of the travel industry. Arthur Frommer said it was "required reading for anyone interested in the future of travel." Becker was also the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio and has reported from Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
Website: http://www.elizabethbecker.com
Twitter: @Elizbeckerwrite
LHBF_140504_333.JPG: QUINTIN PETERSON
Quintin Peterson is a native Washingtonian who served for 28 years as a D.C. police officer. He is an artist and an award-winning writer of noir stories that have appeared in a variety of crime fiction anthologies, including D.C. Noir (edited by George Pelecanos) and To Hell in a Fast Car (edited by John L. French). He currently serves on the security staff of the Folger Shakespeare Library, which provides the setting for a story that appears in the January 2013 issue of eNoir, an online magazine available in a variety of e-reader formats, and he recently published a Kindle edition of his story "Thug's Brew."
Website: www.google.com/profiles/quintinpeterson
LHBF_140504_340.JPG: ANU KEENE
Anu Keene's first novel, Bitten, tells the story of a woman's awakening against the backdrop of Guatemala's long and wrenching civil war. Writing as Anna Kinsman, she is also the author of The Politics of Knowledge: Public Schools in the Nation's Capital. She received a Ph.D. in the Human Sciences at The George Washington University and has taught at public schools in London and Chicago as well as the District of Columbia.
LHBF_140504_346.JPG: "I peed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?"
-- Diogenes, 323BC
LHBF_140504_364.JPG: JANINE K. SPENDLOVE
Janine K. Spendlove is a KC-130 pilot for the United States Marine Corps who has written a best-selling fantasy trilogy for young adults: War of the Seasons, Book One: The Human, was published in June 2011, and Book Two: The Half-Blood, in 2012, and Book Three: The Hunter, in 2014. She has also had short stories published in various science fiction and fantasy anthologies. She is an avid runner and co-founder of GeekGirlsRun, a community for geek girls (and guys) who want to run, share, have fun, and encourage each other. She currently resides with her husband and daughter on Capitol Hill, where she serves as the Marine Corps liaison to the U.S. Capitol and is currently at work on her next novel.
Website: http://www.janinespendlove.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JanineSpendlove
Twitter: @JanineSpendlove
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/JanineSpendlove
LHBF_140504_458.JPG: FRANK PIETRUCHA
Frank Pietrucha has more than 25 years of experience helping start-ups, established companies, and government agencies make challenging topics more accessible. In his forthcoming book, Supercommunicator: Explaining the Complicated So Anyone Can Understand, he shares his considerable expertise with the rest of us, enabling readers to help turn tech-speak into everyday language and make sense of an increasingly complex world. He is currently president of Definitive Communications.
Website: http://www.supercommunicator.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/supercommunicator
LHBF_140504_544.JPG: LOUIS BAYARD
Louis Bayard has been called "a major talent" (Joyce Carol Oates) and "a fearlessly confident writer" (The Washington Post). The author of four critically-acclaimed historical novels -- The School of Night, The Black Tower, the national bestseller The Pale Blue Eye, and Mr. Timothy, a New York Times Notable Book -- he publishes his fifth title this spring. In Roosevelt's Beast, Bayard vividly imagines the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition of Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit -- with a twist. He has written for Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others, and lives with his family on Capitol Hill.
Website: http://www.louisbayard.com
Twitter: @LouisBayard
LHBF_140504_596.JPG: JOHN MULLER
John Muller is a local journalist, historian, and author of Frederick Douglass in Washington, DC: The Lion of Anacostia, which was selected as the DC Public Library's 2013 DC Reads. A former reporter for the Washington Times, his writing and reporting have appeared in Capital Community News, the Georgetowner, the Washington Informer, and other media in the metropolitan DC area, where he writes about municipal and neighborhood politics, public policy, and current affairs. His most recent book is the Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent.
Blog: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/jmuller/
LHBF_140504_677.JPG: LOVEY MARIE GUILLORY
Lovey Marie Guillory is a Washington, D.C., lawyer who has written numerous legal briefs and lectured extensively on telecommunications law in the U.S. and abroad. Her new memoir, Born on the Kitchen Floor in Bois Mallet: The Story of a Free Black Creole Family from its Arrival in French Colonial Louisiana, to its Fight to Remain Free, and Endurance Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Exile and Jim Crow, which tells the story of seven generations of her family, is her first book.
Twitter: @Guillorylm
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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