African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic Authors bringing flavor to the 31st Miami Book Fair International
MIAMI – Some of the most respected contemporary African-American, Caribbean and Hispanic authors will bring their flavor and literary genius to this year’s 31st edition of the Miami Book Fair International (MBFI), presented by The Center for Writing and Literature @ Miami Dade College (MDC). Award-winning authors JaQuavis Coleman, Richard Blanco, Cecilia M. Fernandez, and K’wan Foye will join a legion of other distinguished writers and present their latest works during the Fair, as well as participate in book signings, readings, and one-on-one discussions.
Some of this year’s notable titles include Bob Herbert’s Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America, Richard Blanco’s The Prince of Los Cucuyos: A Miami Childhood, and Adrian Miller’s Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time.
The Fair’s diverse line-up will also include presentations of photographs and comic strips, live music, and film screenings. A series of panels will also be presented which will include titles such as African-American and Caribbean Perspectives; Future Tense: Independence, Diversity and the Future of Jamaican Literature; Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from the Twilight Zones; and Immigrant Voices, among others.
Here’s a list of this year’s featured authors of African-American and Caribbean descent, as well as those whose work highlights these cultures and interests:
Elizabeth Alexander, Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cucuyos: A Miami Childhood
Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut up in My Bones: A Memoir
George Clinton, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir
James E. Clyburn, Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black
Miasha Coleman, Swing
JaQuavis Coleman, The White House
Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of the Jim Crow South
Nick Douglas, Finding Octave: The Untold History of Two Creole Families and Slavery in Louisiana
Nurudin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Novel
K’wan Foye, Black Lotus
Cecilia M. Fernandez, Leaving Little Havana! A Memoir of Miami’s Cuban Ghetto
Miguel “Mike” Fernandez, Humbled by the Journey – Life Lessons for my Grandchildren…and Yours
Ramiro Fernandez, Cuba Then: Rare and Classic Images from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection
Franketienne, Ready to Burst
Alina Garcia-Lapuerta, La Belle Creole: The Cuban Countess who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
Carrie Gibson, Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Kaiama L. Glover, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
Michael Nolden Henderson, Got Proof! My Genealogical Journey Through the Use of Documentation
Bob Herbert, Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise
Randall Kennedy, Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
William LeoGrande, Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Alfred Lopez, Jose Marti: A Revolutionary Life
Adrian Miller, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
Elizabeth Shown Mills, The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color, and Isle of Canes
Walter Mosley, Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba
Ed Piskor, A New Day: A Memoir
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Jess Row, Your Face in Mine: a Novel
Jon Secada, A New Day: A Memoir
Colleen Selvon-Rampersad, Visions
Fatima Shaik, Melitte
Tavis Smiley, Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year
Aaron Their, The Ghost Apple
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Dr. Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel
Miami Book Fair International 2014 will take place from November 16 – 23 at the Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami and promises to be another exceptional literary event!
For the Miami Book Fair International’s official guide, please visit http://issuu.com/miamibookfair/docs/2014-fgg-1016.
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