Welcome to the Carmel Author's & Ideas Festival 2012
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PEGGY NOONAN is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the bestselling author of seven books on American politics, history and ...
Continue Reading »JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR was the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. She is considered the ...
Continue Reading »DR. NANCY SNYDERMAN has never been afraid to re-invent herself when she thought the time was right. From working with individual ...
Continue Reading »RIDLEY PEARSON spends his mornings writing suspense novels for adult readers and his afternoons co-writing with Pulitzer Prize winning humorist, Dave ...
Continue Reading »GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI is the author of 10 books, including the New York Times bestseller, “The Bus: My Life In and ...
Continue Reading »TINA SEELIG is a national leader in engineering education. She also received the 2008 National Olympus Innovation Award and the 2005 ...
Continue Reading »ARTHUR BENJAMIN is a mathematician and a professor of mathematics. In his entertaining and fast-paced talk, he demonstrates and explains how ...
Continue Reading »RAMON RESA MD never imagined he could become a doctor. Abandoned by his single mother, who had 5 kids before she was ...
Continue Reading »JEFF GREENFIELD, a veteran political, media and culture reporter, contributes to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, ...
Continue Reading »ERIN McKEAN is the founder of Wordnik.com. She was the editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e, and ...
Continue Reading »SCOTT JAMES writes a weekly column about the San Francisco Bay Area that's published in The New York Times. In the ...
Continue Reading »MICHAEL KRASNY is host of KQED's award-winning Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, ...
Continue Reading »DR. W. DOUGLAS BOYD is recognized for his pioneering work in cardiothoracic surgery and for his use of robotic-assisted surgical systems. ...
Continue Reading »STEPHEN R. PALUMBI’S new book, “The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival”, is a good-news story about ...
Continue Reading »British-born BRIAN FAGAN is widely regarded as the world’s leading archaeological writer. He spent his early career in Central Africa, where he ...
Continue Reading »Book Passage founder and president, ELAINE PETROCELLI, had the goal of creating the best possible bookstore for the people of Marin County ...
Continue Reading »TAELEN THOMAS, known for his resonant delivery and powerful stage presence, portrays, in his own one-man plays, many well-known historical and literary figures, ...
Continue Reading »SEAN SENECHAL, 'The AnimalSigner', author of Dogs Can Sign, Too. A breakthrough method for teaching your dog to communicate to you, teaches ...
Continue Reading »For 25 years DAVE BARRY was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and ...
Continue Reading »FRANK DELANEY, who lives in Kent, Connecticut, was born in Tipperary, Ireland. After a brief career in banking he became a ...
Continue Reading »SCOTT TUROW is a writer and an attorney. He is the author of nine best-selling works, including his first novel “Presumed Innocent” ...
Continue Reading »RICK REILLY, 52, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times. He is a front-page columnist for ESPN.com and ...
Continue Reading »KEN HOWARD is a Tony and two time Emmy Award winning actor. He has a role in Clint Eastwood’s feature “J. ...
Continue Reading »DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University and the author of several books. He is also a ...
Continue Reading »PHILIP K. HOWARD is a well-known leader of legal reform in America. He is the author of “Life Without Lawyers”, ...
Continue Reading »MICHAEL ALEC ROSE had performed in dozens of venues, from New York to Mexico City, London to Skopje, Glasgow to Miami. ...
Continue Reading »KELLY CORRIGAN is the author of back to back New York Times bestsellers, “The Middle Place” and “Lift”. The Huffington Post ...
Continue Reading »GEORGE DYSON is a historian of technology whose interests have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak, the evolution ...
Continue Reading »JOHN B. TAYLOR is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior ...
Continue Reading »JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, a regular contributor to journals covering international education, has published articles in national magazines and has also recorded her ...
Continue Reading »SIR HAROLD EVANS is editor-at-large of The Week magazine and the author of two critically acclaimed histories of America: "The American Century" ...
Continue Reading »JULIA BOLZ is a nationally-recognized speaker and social justice advocate, who is dedicated to engaging, educating, and empowering the poor in the ...
Continue Reading »MARISSA MAYER is Vice President of Location and Local Services at the search engine company Google. She has become one of the ...
Continue Reading »LIAM TIERNAN began his music career in his native Belfast and formed the legendary group Barleycorn. Their first recording, “The Men Behind ...
Continue Reading »FATHER MIKE RUSSO is a Catholic priest, and assists at the San Carlos Cathedral (Monterey). His doctoral degree from New York University ...
Continue Reading »DR. GRANT L. VOTH is Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College in California. He earned his M.A. in English Education from St. ...
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What authors have said about previous festivals.
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- Doris Kearns Goodwin
It was first class from start to finish
- Doug Brinkley (Reagan Diaries)
The Festival was a winner
- Frank McCourt
I was honored to be invited to such a wonderful event
- Elizabeth Edwards
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- Publishers Weekly
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- Robert Scheer
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- Ann Louise Bardach
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- Sy Hersh
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