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Georgia
The Georgia Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival at "On the Writer's Bookshelf," a celebration of Georgia writers and their books that inspired them. The event, which will take place on Oct. 1, will be held in Atlanta at the Margaret Mitchell House, which recently was designated as Georgia's first literary landmark by the Georgia Center for the Book and Friends of Libraries U.S.A. Borders Books and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, cosponsors of the event, are assisting with promotion. The stellar panel of Georgia authors, who will read and discuss their favorite books, is being drawn from the Georgia Center for the Book's Georgia Top 25 Reading List-which features books set in Georgia or written by a resident or former resident. Georgia resident Carmen Agra Deedy, who participated as a storyteller in the 2001 National Book Festival and is returning in 2002 as an award-winning children's book author, will kick off the event. Other authors include Georgia's poet laureate David Bottoms, National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene, and Congressman John Lewis, who presented a talk about his book Walking with the Wind at the Library of Congress on Feb. 2, 1999. Additionally the Georgia Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival by distributing e-mail notices, posters, and bookmarks through the 58 regional libraries of the Georgia Public Library System.
Contact: Rhonda Mullen, phone: 404-370-8450 x. 2225, fax: 404-370-8469, e-mail: mullenr@dekalblibrary.org