2012 Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival

DAVE BARRY

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For 25 years DAVE BARRY was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened. Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom “Dave’s World,” in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.

Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men’s underpants with a Barbie doll.

MORE INFO: www.davebarry.com

FRANK DELANEY

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FRANK DELANEY, who lives in Kent, Connecticut, was born in Tipperary, Ireland. After a brief career in banking he became a news broadcaster with RTE radio and television, and then on the BBC, covering the recent war known as the Irish “Troubles.” Some years later, in London, he inaugurated award winning BBC shows on language and writing. He has interviewed more than three thousand writers, including many of the significant authors of our time, and has judged many literary awards including the famous Booker Prize.

Delaney has written six books of non-fiction, twelve novels, one novella, and has had short stories published in magazines and collections. He has edited anthologies of essays and poetry, written screenplays – you may have seen the recent “Goodbye Mr. Chips” on Masterpiece Theater – and currently he is writing a series of novels, one a year, exploring his native Ireland’s presence in the twentieth century. The latest, “The Matchmaker of Kenmare”, has received rave reviews.

MORE INFO: www.frankdelaney.com

SCOTT TUROW

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SCOTT TUROW is a writer and an attorney. He is the author of nine best-selling works, including his first novel “Presumed Innocent” and its sequel, “Innocent”. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages, sold more than 25 million copies world-wide and have been adapted into a full length film and two television miniseries.

Turow served as president of the Authors Guild, the nation’s largest membership organization of professional writers and is presently serving as President once again. He is also a Trustee of Amherst College.

MORE INFO: www.scottturow.com

RICK REILLY

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RICK REILLY, 52, has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year 11 times. He is a front-page columnist for ESPN.com and an essayist for ESPN SportsCenter, as well as ESPN’s and ABC’s golf coverage. He is also the host of Homecoming, ESPN’s one-hour interview show. He is also an occasional anchor for SportsCenter.

Reilly is the winner of the Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism.

MORE INFO: www.rickreillyonline.com

KEN HOWARD

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KEN HOWARD is a Tony and two time Emmy Award winning actor. He has a role in Clint Eastwood’s feature “J. Edgar”.

Howard has performed in seven Broadway shows, over twenty feature films, and on television he has starred in seven series, six mini-series, seventeen movies, and made countless guest appearances. He helped create “The White Shadow,” a groundbreaking television series in which he starred. He spent three years in Cambridge, Massachusetts teaching at the American Repertory Theatre, Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He authored the book “Act Natural” published by Random House. Ken Howard was elected the National President of The Screen Actors Guild and has been a working member of SAG for forty years. Howard has served as Chancellor of the National Kidney Foundation for the past seven years and is the national spokesperson for the Onyx and Breezy Foundation.

MORE INFO: www.onyxandbreezy.org

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University and the author of several books. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and an in-house historian for CBS News.

One of his most popular works, “The Reagan Diaries”, is #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. “Historians will treasure Douglas Brinkley’s superbly edited version of President Reagan’s diaries for generations to come”, said Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of “Team of Rivals”.

PHILIP K. HOWARD

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PHILIP K. HOWARD is a well-known leader of legal reform in America. He is the author of “Life Without Lawyers”, as well as the best-seller “The Death of Common Sense” and “The Collapse of the Common Good”, and he is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He advises leaders of both parties on legal and regulatory reform issues.

Howard founded Common Good (www.commongood.org), a national coalition organized to restore common sense to American public life. The Advisory Board of Common Good is composed of leaders from a broad cross-section of American political thought including, among others, former Senators Howard Baker, Bill Bradley and Alan Simpson.
Howard has long been a civic leader in New York. He was Chair of the Committee that installed the “Tribute in Light” Memorial for those who died on September 11th.

MORE INFO: www.philipkhoward.com

MICHAEL ALEC ROSE

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MICHAEL ALEC ROSE had performed in dozens of venues, from New York to Mexico City, London to Skopje, Glasgow to Miami. His many commissions include those from the Naumburg Foundation, the Spoleto Festival, the Nashville Symphony, and the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Rose’s first book, “Audible Signs: Essays from a Musical Ground”, was published in 2010.

MORE INFO: www.michaelalecrose.com

PEGGY NOONAN

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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 culture. Her essays have appeared in Forbes, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other publications. She is a frequent guest on political talk shows. She has also been nominated for Emmy Awards for the writing of a post-9/11 television special and for her work on the television drama The West Wing. Noonan is a member of the board of the Manhattan Institute.

Her most recent book, “John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father,” takes a look at the life of John Paul II entwined with the story of a personal journey. She also wrote a collection of post-9/11 columns in “A Heart, a Cross and a Flag: America Today”.

Noonan was a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and was chief speechwriter for George Bush when he ran for the presidency. She holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, Miami University, and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

MORE INFO: www.peggynoonan.com

JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR

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JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR was the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. She is considered the most admired woman in America. She credits her grandmother’s confidence in her ability to succeed in any endeavor as her motivation for refusing to admit defeat. She attended Stanford Law School, where she graduated third in her class; first in her class was William Rehnquist. Her moderation had helped her as the centrist coalition-builder. She made it clear that she believes a courts role is to interpret and not to legislate.

“The power I exerted on the court depended on the power of my arguments, not my gender”.