Featured Speakers' Books

Alison Bechdel

Are You My Mother?

Fun Home

Justin Torres

We the Animals

Daniel Mendelsohn

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken

The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million

Gin Phillips

The Hidden Summer

The Well and the Mine

Come in and Cover Me

"Hearing great writers like Li-Young Lee and Chris Abani was one of the greatest highlights of the trip. The passion and creativity of these writers along with the student writers that I listened to are proving to be a great influence in my own writing this semester ." Read complete story.

Raina L. Shults
Theta Omicron Chapter
Union University, Jackson, TN
2010 Convention

Featured Speakers


Alison Bechdel	Justin Torres	Daniel Mendelsohn	Gin Phillips

Alison Bechdel

Wednesday, February 26
Reading, 6:30 p.m. (Savannah A-B, LL)

Book signing, 8:00 p.m. (Savannah A, LL)

Speaker details
Alison Bechdel's Website

Justin Torres

Thursday, February 27
Q&A, 4:15 p.m. (Savannah C, LL)

Discussion, 7:30 p.m. (Savannah A-B, LL)

Book signing, 8:30 p.m. (Prefunction, LL)

Speaker details
Sigma Tau Delta 2014 Common Reader: We the Animals
Justin Torres' Website

Daniel Mendelsohn

Friday, February 28
Discussion, 7:30 p.m. (Savannah A-B, LL)

Book signing, 8:30 p.m. (Savannah A-B, LL)

Saturday, March 1
Q&A, 9:30 a.m. (Savannah C, LL)

Speaker details
Daniel Mendelsohn's Website

Gin Phillips, NEHS Featured Speaker

Saturday, March 1
Discussion, 3:30 p.m. (Savannah D-E, LL)

Book signing, 4:45 p.m. (Prefunction, LL)

Speaker details
Gin Phillips' Website