Authors & Artists Fair

MEET THE AUTHORS & ARTISTS! Buy autographed books and artwork! Support summer reading programs in Lane County!

Each year, about 40 top Oregon authors and about 20 of the best local artists are invited to attend this benefit fundraiser. A portion of all sales benefit the Lane Library League's summer reading and literacy programs.

VISA and MasterCard can be used for purchases. Food and music are available next door at Holiday Market. Come enjoy the fair December 8!

2007 ARTISTS (ATTENDING ALL DAY unless otherwise noted):

Susan Applegate (10am-2pm): Paintings, prints, and original art from book illustrations.

Sylvia Beltran and Frank Patten: Kimonos, cards, and take-out boxes.

Sue Bradley: Fused glass.

Shirley Collins: Handmade notecards and books, and photography.

Tallmadge Doyle: Prints and etchings.

Jody Dunphy: Artist books, prints, and mixed media.

Rhonda Farfan: glass yard art.

Michael Fromme: Ceramic animals.

Ellen Gabehart: Stationery, prints, and watercolors of scenes in Mexico , Oregon , and Alaska.

Barbara Gleason: Prints, cards, tiles, and trays with bird and animal drawings.

Guild of Eugene Metalsmiths: Jewelry and metal sculpture by Kathleen Frazer, Aimee Mattila, Brooke Stone, and Christine Sundt.

Susan Lowdermilk: Prints and artist books.

Kit Porter: Glass ornaments, jewelry, night lights, and other fused glass works

Elaine Pruett: Ceramic art, tiles, wall boxes, and ceramic shoes.

Steve and ZoAnn Reinmuth: Bronze sculpture (figurative, sound-producing, mobile, and monumental).

Do Mi Stauber: Colored pencil art of landscapes and animals, ,also sold as cards and giclee prints.

Valley Calligraphy Guild: Note cards, quotations, and gift tags by Nichol Rauch, Edie Roberts, and others.

2007 AUTHORS   ATTENDING ALL DAY ( 10am-6pm )

Dan Armstrong: "Prairie Fire" and "Taming the Dragon", novels of environmental suspense.

Mabel Armstrong: "Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars", a just-released young adult nonfiction book.

Jane Capron: "Hanky Panky" and three other murder mysteries set in Eugene .

Linda Clare: "Lost Boys and the Moms Who Love Them", "Revealed: Spirituality in a Makeover World", and "Making Peace With a Dangerous God."

Dudley Clark: "Roy Rogers in the Twenty-First Century", "Apocalyptic Crawfish!" and other comic novels.

Norma (Bean) Comrada: translations of works by Karel Capek, the Czech writer who gave us the word "robot".

Jan Eliot: Six anthologies of her Stone Soup cartoons, including her latest, "Desperate Households".

Merideth Ferrell "Young At Art: Easy Art Lessons for Educators".

Elaine Flinn: Four award-winning murder mysteries about a California antique dealer, including "Tagged for Murder" and "Deadly Collection".

Dan Gleason: "Birds! From the Inside Out" (nonfiction).

Tom Hager: "The Demon Under the Microscope" (the story of the discovery of the first antibiotic) and "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling".

Ann Herrick: Half a dozen books for young adults and children, including "Walk Softly and Watch Out for Bigfoot" (a Dream Realm Award finalist for 2006) and "The Chocolate Day".

Nancy Hopps: Seven spoken audio CDs, including "Cancer: Embracing the Healing Journey", "Relax Into Healing", and "Relaxation Affirmation Techniques".

Kristen Ingram: Nearly two dozen inspirational books and two dozen murder mysteries, including "Rule of Silence", a mystery set in a Catholic monastery.

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant: Eugene's reigning S.L.U.G. Queen with more than a dozen humor books, including two that are new this year, "Are You Playing With Me?" and "Life Is Funny: A Riveting Tale of Comedy, Hairdressing, and Texas Politics".

Lauren Kessler: Narrative nonfiction and biography, including the recently released "Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer 's"  and "Stubborn Twig" (the sesquicentennial 2009 "Oregon Reads" selection).

Kenny Moore: "Bowerman and the Men of Oregon" (the Eugene "Readin' in the Rain" selection for 2008).

Clint Morrison: "Running the Seven Continents: Tales of Travel and the Marathon ", an adventure book about running marathons on all seven continents, including Antarctica .

L. J. Sellers: "The Sex Club" (a just-released murder mystery set in Eugene ) and "Beyond Conception" (a thriller)

Dorcas Smucker: Two collections of her Register-Guard columns about a Mennonite family in Harrisburg , including her latest, "Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting: More Family Life in a Farmhouse".

Miriam Starlin: "Wait a Minute", a just-published collection of poetry.

William Sullivan: Oregon hiking guidebooks and two novels, including the just-released mystery, "The Case of Einstein's Violin".

Shirley Tallman: Three murder mysteries set in San Francisco in the 1880s, including the just-released "The Cliff House Strangler".

Ellen Traylor: Fifteen biblical historical novels and two thrillers set in modern-day Israel , "The Priest" and "The Oracle", that altogether have sold nearly a million copies worldwide.

2007 AUTHORS ATTENDING 10am-2pm

Shannon Applegate, winner of the 2007 Governor's Arts Award: "Skookum" and "Among Headstones," both now available in papaerback.

Joe Blakely: "Lifting Oregon Out of the Mud" (nonfiction about construction of the Oregon Coast highway) and "Kidnapped on the Oregon 's Coast Highway " (a new novel).

Linda Crew of Corvallis : Eight novels, inlcuding "A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon : 1845," winner of the Stevens Prize and the Oregon Book Award.

Tracy Daugherty, a professor of writing at OSU: Four novels, including "Late in the Standoff" (Oregon Book Award finalist) and "Axeman's Jazz" (Oregon Book Award winner).

Edith Flaherty: "If Winter Comes" (suspense), "The War In Dover's Landing" (novel), and "Little Boy Lost" (a novel about the botched kidnapping of a 2-year-old).

Ehud Havazalet, a professor of creative writing at the U of O: "Bearing the Body", winner of both the Oregon and California Book Awards for 2007.

Cub Kahn: Four books on photography, including his latest, "Digital Techniques for Successful Nature Photography".

Marjorie Sandor: "The Night Gardener" (a collection of personal essays that won the Oregon Book Award) and "Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime" (winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award).

Sandy Silverthorne: Co-author of "One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers". Author of "Surviving Zits", "Surviving When You're Home Alone", and " Surviving Middle School ".

Jesse Springer: Collections of his award-winning political cartoons, including "Only in Eugene" and "Nobody Messes with My Right to Dye".

John Warner: Co-author of "One-Minute Mysteries and Brain Teasers".

2007 AUTHORS ATTENDING 2pm-6pm

Tom Arnold: "Checkpoint Charlie", an action / coming-of-age novel set in Cold War Europe in 1966.

Jo-Brew: "Marge, Back On Track" (just released) and four other novels about women.

John Daniel, two-time winner of the Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction: Eight books of memoir, essays, and poetry, including "Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone".

Carola Dunn: More than a dozen murder mysteries, including her latest with 1920s English sleuth Daisy Dalrymple, "The Bloody Tower".

Tiffany and Scott Haugen: A dozen books on fishing and cooking, including three that are new this year, "Grill It! Plank It! Wrap It! Smoke It!", "Cooking Big Game", and "300 Tips to More Salmon and Steelhead".

Nina Kiriki Hoffman: "Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact" (a new science fiction novel for adult readers) and many contemporary fantasy novels for young adults.

Edward Jensen: "Trees to Know in Oregon ", a classic republished by the OSU Extension Service.

Karen and Tom Reid: "Powerball 310", crime fiction about a gang of experts who pull off a high-tech heist of a lottery jackpot.

Bill Sweet,: This founder of the Lane Literary Guild will be represented at the fair by his editors Jackie Melvin and Carter McKenzie with his new chapbook, "Powder Monkey: Oregon Poems."

Maryana Vollstedt: Her 8 recipe books have sold over half a million copies, including "What's For Dinner?", "The Big Book of Casseroles", "The Big Book of Easy Suppers", and her latest, "Meatloaf".

Kate Wilhelm: More than three dozen novels, including "A Wrongful Death" (her latest Barbara Holloway courtroom thriller) and "Sleight of Hand".