Maya Angelou Stamps, Arkansas "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
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Johnnie Bernhard Press Women of Texas "Sisters of the Undertow"
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Dee Brown (Arkansas Interest) Ouachita County, Arkansas "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
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Donna Fletcher Crow Media Network Idaho "Glastonbury: The Novel of Christian England"
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Ernest Dumas (Arkansas Interest) El Dorado, Arkansas "The Education of Ernie Dumas: Chronicles of the Arkansas Political Mind"
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Michelle Duster Keynote speaker "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"
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Benjamin Dreyer Executive Managing Editor, Random House "Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style"
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Debbie Eckert (Arkansas Interest) Arkansas Press Women "Hairspray, Holy Water and the Healing Hand of God"
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Elizabeth Eckford Keynote speaker "The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High"
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Noël-Marie Fletcher NFPW member-at-large "My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China"
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Lisa J. Graff Delaware Press Association "Find Me Alone"
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Loretta Hall New Mexico Press Women "Higher Faster Longer: My Life in Aviation and My Quest for Spaceflight" (By Wally Funk, as told to Loretta Hall)
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Jay Jennings Editor at Large, OXFORD AMERICAN "Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany" (Edited by Jay Jennings)
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Mary Katzke Alaska Professional Communicators "One Good Man"
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David Margolick (Arkansas Interest) Author "Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock"
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OXFORD AMERICAN Nonprofit quarterly Conway, Arkansas
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Charles Portis El Dorado, Arkansas "True Grit"
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Kat Robinson Arkansas food historian "Arkansas Food: The A to Z of Eating in The Natural State"
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Marilyn Saltzman Colorado Press Women "Your Love is Blasting in My Heart, A Grandmother's Journey"
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Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder (Arkansas Interest) Arkansas Press Women "Salty Old Editor: An Adventure in Ink"
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Nan Snow and Dorothy D. Stuck Arkansas Press Women "Roberta: A Most Remarkable Fulbright"
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Donna Lampkin Stephens (Arkansas Interest) Director, School of Communication, University of Central Arkansas "If It Ain’t Broke, Break It: How Corporate Journalism Killed the Arkansas Gazette”
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William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White College professor and children's author "The Elements of Style"
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Michael Ray Taylor Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas "Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves"
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Lynne Truss Writer "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"
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Ida B. Wells Civil and women's right advocate "Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells"
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Helaine Williams Arkansas Press Women "Girl Power," Phyllis Hodges, author (Featured writer)
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