Rutland Free Library

One hundred people will gather in the library’s Fox Room for dinner with one of fourteen authors. Candlelight, flowers and fresh table linens will transform the nineteenth century courtroom into a drawing room atmosphere. Guests will be seated at a table with an author of note, while waiters move quietly around the two-story chandeliered room serving dinner. With each course authors move to a new table so diners have an opportunity to converse with several writers over the course of the evening.

For ticket information please email Paula Baker at paulajb@rutlandfree.org or call the Library at 802-773-1860

Rutland Free Library
April 24th, 2010

Kenneth C. Davis is the creator and author of the bestselling Don’t Know Much About series. The first book in the series, DonÕt Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned, was originally published in 1990 and spent 35 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.	Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and critic, has studied and written about Mark Twain for many years. He is the author of ten books, including Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, and the coauthor of two, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
An Interview with Bernd Heinrich on Powells.com Q: If the kinglet is iconic of winter, what animals are iconic of spring, summer, and fall, and why? A: To me the wood frogs are iconic of spring, because they are out and mating in ice water before anybody else. For summer I would pick bumblebees because they are so beautiful, and do such a great job pollinating the flora so that we and the birds can eat blueberries. As for fall I would have to go with crickets. They sing at the end of summer when they have only a few weeks left to live.	Joe Gunther, a policeman for most of his adult life, gets the call that every cop hates: A fellow officer has been killed in the line of duty. During what appears to have been a routine traffic stop on a dark country Vermont road, a deputy sheriff was shot to death. From what can be seen on the cruiserÕs video recorder, the killers appear to be a couple of Boston-based drug runners.
Jeff Danziger served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1971. An intelligence officer and linguist during the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal in 1970. He has spent time teaching English at Union 32 High School in East Montpelier, Vermont where he taught specialized classes in journalism and expository writing at an advanced level, and worked for the Christian Science Monitor between 1987 and 1997. As of 2009, hes has been published by the Los Angeles Times syndicate. He now lives in New York City.	Tom Smith’s Cow’sleap–A Nightbook is a collection of challenging, demanding, and rewarding poems that focus on the brain’s activity at night, while the body is asleep. These are not poems to make us feel good. “Reader,” the poet says, “let me get my clause in you.” And the reader is glad to oblige, because the poems pay and repay.
Gordon Hayward.  A breakthrough in inspiring yet practical do-it-yourself garden and landscape design, including dozens of detailed plans. Finally, homeowners can tackle new garden designs and fix old ones with the confidence and know-how to succeed. Professional garden designer Gordon Hayward provides the tools by demonstrating the guiding principles behind his own designs: take clues from the style, materials, and proportions of existing features, particularly your house, but also garages and outbuildings, property lines, streets, walls, and walkways.	Jay Parini was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Lafayette College and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1975. He has taught at Dartmouth College, Oxford University, and Middlebury College, where he is currently Axinn Professor of English. Parini is a poet and novelist as well as a biographer.
Marilyn Taylor McDowell has been bringing children and books together for more than twenty-five years, volunteering as a school librarian, a cultural arts chairperson, and a storyteller, and working as a teacher and as the proprietor of a children’s bookshop. Her debut novel, Carolina Harmony, published by Delacorte Press was released March 10, 2009.	Tracey Medeiros is a food writer, food stylist, and recipe developer and tester whose recipes have appeared in Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Eating Well and Hampton Roads magazines. She lives in Essex Junction, VT.
David Carkeet was born and raised in the Gold Rush town of Sonora, California. He attended college at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Davis, followed by graduate school at the University of Wisconsin and Indiana University.	Don Bredes lives in the hills of northern Vermont with his wife and their daughter. He earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of California at Irvine and an AB in English Composition from Syracuse University.
Deborah Lee Luskin has been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating from New York City in 1984. Her stories and essays have been featured in many regional publications, including The Brattleboro Commons, Dartmouth Medicine Magazine, and Vermont Life.	Ben Hewitt writes and farms in Northern Vermont. His work has appeared in numerous national periodicals, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Gourmet, Discover, Skiing, Eating Well, Powder, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Bicycling, and many others.