Kathleen Caldwell

has been a literary events coordinator and children's book buyer for 16 years. She has written a children's recommended reading column for The Contra Costa Times and writes The Montclarion's "By the Book" column. In December 2005, Kathleen became the owner of A Great Good Place Books in Oakland's Montclair Village after the death of her good friend, Debi Echlin.

Harriet Scott Chessman

is the author of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper (#1 BookSense Pick in 2001), Someone Not Really Her Mother (Picked for Good Morning America’s “Read This!” book club), and Ohio Angels. Her fiction often raises questions about the power of art and love in the face of grief or mortality.

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Rich Cohen's

Sweet and Low: The Story of a Family was chosen as Best Non-fiction Book of 2006 by The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. He is the author of Tough Jews, The Avengers, and Machers And Rockers, and the memoir Lake Effect. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. He lives in New York City.

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Donna Woolfolk Cross

is the author of two books on language, Word Abuse: How The Words We Use Use Us and Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind. She is the coauthor of Speaking Of Words and Daddy's Little Girl. The product of seven years of research and writing, Pope Joan is her first novel. She is now at work on a new novel set in 17th Century France.

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Mark Allen Cunningham

is the author of Lost Son and The Green Age Of Asher Witherow, a #1 BookSense Pick. He grew up in Diablo Valley, north of San Francisco, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

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