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Our sixth annual Holiday Book Fair on December 6, 2014, was a great success! Community members came to the Byrne-Reed House to visit with twenty-one noted authors and enjoy coffee and a bake sale of donated and homemade treats. Available titles included works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with selections for both adult and youth audiences. The book fair and bake sale raised funds for Texas military libraries.

2014 Authors and Titles

Learn more about the participating authors and and their titles.

Sixth Annual Holiday Book Fair Photos : Slideshow
  1. Twenty extraordinary authors participated in the Holiday Book Fair. From left to right: (bottom row) Jacqueline Jones, Debra Winegarten, Steve Wilson, Elizabeth Crook; (second row) Emilio Zamora, Bethany Hegedus, Margaret Lewis Furse, Naomi Shihab Nye; (third row) S. C. Gwynne, Lawrence Wright, M. M. McAllen; (fourth row) Chris Tomlinson, James E. Bruseth, Bill Wittliff, Wayne Thorburn; (top row) Tracy Dahlby, John Taliaferro, James Magnuson, Carrie Fountain, (not pictured) Sarah Bird.
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  1. Thumbnail of: Twenty extraordinary authors participated in the Holiday Book Fair. From left to right: (bottom row) Jacqueline Jones, Debra Winegarten, Steve Wilson, Elizabeth Crook; (second row) Emilio Zamora, Bethany Hegedus, Margaret Lewis Furse, Naomi Shihab Nye; (third row) S. C. Gwynne, Lawrence Wright, M. M. McAllen; (fourth row) Chris Tomlinson, James E. Bruseth, Bill Wittliff, Wayne Thorburn; (top row) Tracy Dahlby, John Taliaferro, James Magnuson, Carrie Fountain, (not pictured) Sarah Bird.
  2. Thumbnail of: The Byrne-Reed House, location of Humanities Texas's sixth annual Holiday Book Fair.
  3. Thumbnail of: Humanities Texas offered the authors’ books for purchase at a discounted price. Available titles included works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with selections for both adult and youth audiences.
  4. Thumbnail of: Guests line up to purchase books at the Holiday Book Fair.
  5. Thumbnail of: Lawrence Wright, Elizabeth Crook, and S. C. Gwynne sign copies of their books.
  6. Thumbnail of: Book fair guests with the books they had signed at the Holiday Book Fair.
Twenty extraordinary authors participated in the Holiday Book Fair. From left to right: (bottom row) Jacqueline Jones, Debra Winegarten, Steve Wilson, Elizabeth Crook; (second row) Emilio Zamora, Bethany Hegedus, Margaret Lewis Furse, Naomi Shihab Nye; (third row) S. C. Gwynne, Lawrence Wright, M. M. McAllen; (fourth row) Chris Tomlinson, James E. Bruseth, Bill Wittliff, Wayne Thorburn; (top row) Tracy Dahlby, John Taliaferro, James Magnuson, Carrie Fountain, (not pictured) Sarah Bird.
Sixth Annual Holiday Book Fair Photos : Thumbnails
  1. Thumbnail of: Twenty extraordinary authors participated in the Holiday Book Fair. From left to right: (bottom row) Jacqueline Jones, Debra Winegarten, Steve Wilson, Elizabeth Crook; (second row) Emilio Zamora, Bethany Hegedus, Margaret Lewis Furse, Naomi Shihab Nye; (third row) S. C. Gwynne, Lawrence Wright, M. M. McAllen; (fourth row) Chris Tomlinson, James E. Bruseth, Bill Wittliff, Wayne Thorburn; (top row) Tracy Dahlby, John Taliaferro, James Magnuson, Carrie Fountain, (not pictured) Sarah Bird.
  2. Thumbnail of: The Byrne-Reed House, location of Humanities Texas's sixth annual Holiday Book Fair.
  3. Thumbnail of: Humanities Texas offered the authors’ books for purchase at a discounted price. Available titles included works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with selections for both adult and youth audiences.
  4. Thumbnail of: Guests line up to purchase books at the Holiday Book Fair.
  5. Thumbnail of: Lawrence Wright, Elizabeth Crook, and S. C. Gwynne sign copies of their books.
  6. Thumbnail of: Book fair guests with the books they had signed at the Holiday Book Fair.
  7. Thumbnail of: Elizabeth Crook, author of <em>Monday, Monday: A Novel</em>, talks to Chris Tomlinson, author of <em>Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Nameâ€&rdquo;One White, One Black</em>.
  8. Thumbnail of: LeAnn Gillette visits with Elizabeth Crook and S. C. Gwynne, author of <em>Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson</em>.
  9. Thumbnail of: Bill Wittliff signs copies of his book <em>The Devil's Backbone</em> for Holiday Book Fair guests.
  10. Thumbnail of: John Taliaferro signs his book <em>All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt</em> for a Holiday Book Fair patron.
  11. Thumbnail of: Tracy Dahlby, author of <em>Into the Field: A Foreign Correspondent’s Notebook</em>, visits with a Holiday Book Fair guest.
  12. Thumbnail of: (From left to right) Sarah Bird, author of <em>Above the East China Sea</em>, Executive Director of Humanities Texas Michael L. Gillette, and Melita Elmore.
  13. Thumbnail of: Book fair guest Nancy Scanlan talks with Lawrence Wright, author of <em>Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David</em>.
  14. Thumbnail of: Right to left: Bethany Hegedus, Debra Winegarten, Carrie Fountain, Naomi Shahib Nye, Nye's mother, Humanities Texas staff member Erica Whittington, and her son Grant.
  15. Thumbnail of: (From left to right) Dr. Carey Windler, Joan Windler, James Magnuson, author of <em>Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel</em>, Lawrence Wright, and Hester Magnuson.
  16. Thumbnail of: James E. Bruseth signs his book La Belle<em>, the Ship That Changed History</em>, for a Holiday Book Fair guest.
  17. Thumbnail of: Jacqueline Jones signs her book, <em>A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,</em> for a Holiday Book Fair guest.
  18. Thumbnail of: Emilio Zamora, editor and translator of <em>The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz,</em> talks with Holiday Book Fair patrons.
  19. Thumbnail of: Debra L. Winegarten visits with a family at the Holiday Book Fair.
  20. Thumbnail of: Ernie Wood talks with Bill Wittliff, author of <em>The Devil’s Backbone</em>.
  21. Thumbnail of: Sarah Bird signs her book <em>Above the East China Sea</em> for a Holiday Book Fair guest.
  22. Thumbnail of: Naomi Shihab Nye, author of <em>The Turtle of Oman</em>, with Imani, daughter of Humanities Texas staff member Brook Davis.
  23. Thumbnail of: Wayne Thorburn, author of <em>Red State: An Insider's Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics</em>, talks with a Holiday Book Fair patron.
  24. Thumbnail of: Margaret Lewis Furse, author of <em>The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present</em> signs her book for a guest, while M. M. McAllen, author of <em>Maximilian and Carlota: Europe’s Last Empire in Mexico</em>, talks to Steve Wilson, author of <em>The Making of </em>Gone With the Wind.
  25. Thumbnail of: Bob Heath visits with John Taliaferro.
  26. Thumbnail of: Bethany Hegedus discusses her book <em>Grandfather Gandhi</em> with a Holiday Book Fair guest.
  27. Thumbnail of: M. M. McAllen talks with Holiday Book Fair patrons.
  28. Thumbnail of: Richard Parker, author of <em>Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America</em> and Tracy Dahlby visit with Humanities Texas board member Shirlene Bridgewater and friend.
  29. Thumbnail of: Humanities Texas staff members and Holiday Book Fair guests in the gallery of the Byrne-Reed House.
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