Author Events

Printers Row Book Fair

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It’s time for another Printers Row Book Fair! This weekend June 7-8 from 10am until 6 pm the Printers Row Book Fair, the Midwest’s largest literary event, will feature scores of author readings and discussion panels, over one hundred booksellers and exhibitors, and a variety of other fun events for the whole family. Among this year’s lineup of University of Chicago Press authors making appearances at the event are:

Richard Cahan and Mark Jacob, authors of Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News.
Erin Hogan, author of Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West.
Joel Greenberg, author of Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing.
Peggy MacNamara, author and illustrator of Architecture by Birds and Insects: A Natural Art.
Newton Minow and Craig LaMay, authors of Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future.
Jonathan Kern, author of Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production.
Anne Whiston Spirn, author of Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field.
Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition.
Seth Lerer, author of Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.

For times and locations navigate to our author events page, or see the Chicago Tribune‘s official Printers Row Book Fair website for the complete schedule.
The University of Chicago Press will also be exhibiting at the Fair with a fine selection of books for general readers, books about Chicago, and books by authors appearing at the Fair. The Press tent will be at the corner of Congress and Dearborn.