November 2 & 3, Authors
Cheryl King - Nov 2 Only
Cheryl King is a dyslexia therapist and author of the award-winning teen historical fiction book Sitting on Top of the World and Under the PawPaw Trees
Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Myra Hargrave McIlvain has free-lanced as a writer of Texas historical markers, written articles for newspapers all over the country and for magazines such as Texas Highways. Her love of a good tale prompted her to write six nonfiction books about famous and infamous Texas sites and characters. Her most recent, Texas Tales, Stories that Shaped a Landscape and a People, is a collection of 113 of her favorite Texas history blog posts.
Ernest McMillan
Ernest McMillan is a veteran human rights activist with a history of working through the 60's in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and throughout the 80’s with the National Black United Front and the United League of Mississippi. McMillan served as the Chairman of the Dallas SNCC from 1967- 1969.
Mae Edwards
This is a story about Mae Edwards, as she tells it. This story is about how her faith sustained her through years of foster care, an alcoholic step father, an abusive husband while in the Air Force, remarried, to her high school sweetheart, fighting cancer and several other hardships. There are stories of her hiking, four wheeling and motorcycling trips in Wyoming and Colorado. This book will keep you interested to the last page.
Douglas Burton
Douglas A. Burton is a novelist and storyteller whose various works emphasize heroic women in fiction. Burton’s debut historical novel, Far Away Bird, brought Byzantine Empress Theodora to life through an intimate biographical account. The novel collected numerous awards including gold medals for the IBPA’s Best New Voice in Fiction, Readers’ Favorite Historical Personage, and eLit’s Best Historical Fiction eBook. Far Away Bird was also a finalist for the Montaigne Medal (Eric Hoffer Book Award) and Screencraft’s Cinematic Book competition. His articles and work on Theodora have appeared in Ms. Magazine and have been cited on Wikipedia. More recently, Burton’s short story ‘The Vaccine’ won the 2024 NextGen Short Story Awards for the Scary Story/Paranormal category.