Wisconsin Book Festival

The Madison Area Technical College's English and Arts and Science programs are sponsoring James Lorence and David Taylor at the Wisconsin Book Festival.

As both these writers have made it their mission to give voice to labor issues and oppressed minority groups--past and present--we thought it was appropriate to recognize and support their work. We will have an information table at the event--which takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Promenade Hall in the Overture Center on Sunday, October 11.

Here's more about the authors:

James Lorence
James Lorence served as Eminent Scholar of History at Gainesville State College in Georgia, 2001-2005. Lorence is also Professor Emeritus of History at UW-Marathon County, where he taught U.S. History for 35 years. In 2000, he received the WHC Governor's Humanities Award for Excellence in Public Humanities Scholarship. Author of nine books and over 30 articles, his recent research has focused on labor history and film studies. In 1999, he published The Suppression of Salt of the Earth, winner of the Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award for Best Book on the Twentieth Century West. In 2007, he published A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West, winner of the Appalachian Studies Association Weatherford Award for 2008. His newest book is The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941. His current research explores the history of UAW Local 180 at the J.I. Case company in Racine, Wisconsin.

David Taylor
David Taylor writes for The Washington Post and Smithsonian, while his features have also appeared in The American Scholar, Outside, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Village Voice. He is the author of Ginseng, the Divine Root, Success: Stories (fiction winner, Washington Writers' Publishing House, 2008), and Soul of a People. He has written award-winning scripts for television documentaries for The Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and National Geographic. He is lead writer and co-producer of the Smithsonian Channel television special, also titled Soul of a People, that airs nationally in fall 2009.

Questions? 
Contact gthorvaldsen[at] matcmadison [dot] edu (Guy Thorvaldsen).