Author News and Book Reports
Bill Clinton to join 500 authors and 27,000 book professionals at BookExpo America 2004
Over 500 authors, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton (My Life, Knopf; June, 2004), and 27,000 booksellers, publishing execs, media producers and editors will gather in Chicago, June 3-6, for their annual book publishing convention, BookExpo America 2004. The annual event, which produced a firestorm last year when Al Franken and Bill O'Reilly clashed, also brought NPR's Fresh Air producer, Amy Salit, LA Times book critic, Steve Wasserman, St. Martin's Press editors, George Witte and Jennifer Enderlin, and super agent Virginia Barber and her acclaimed author, Sue Monk Kidd (The Sectret Life of Bees; Viking Press, 2002) to the 3-day event. Booksellers from all over the country lined up for autographs from hundreds of authors, including Reading is Fundamental's Riffington, Ray Bradbury, a Budhist author tandem, and Ida Greene, as well as dozens of the world's best known authors.
