Since my earliest days in new york. I consider him a mentor and a friend. Youve got his boilerplate info, so im not going to reread that hes written many books and magazine articles. He produces tv series. My five word description of his books are he brings history to life. Its a nonfiction writer of. One of the things i most admire about dean is how turns his personal passions into, his livelihood. Way back in the 1990s, he fell in love. The historical maritime maritime novels Patrick Obrian set during napoleonic wars, and he spent the next decade or more becoming a maybe the obrian expert. He published companion books, some of which i him with, and he eventually published the first biography of Patrick Obrian is a fascinating tale of. A man who pretended most of his life during research. He was in the new York Yacht Club library when he discovered an old leather bound volume with, the title sufferings in africa. And that was enough to spark another adventure. That was the 1817 accoun
Allows to focus on that. All right. Thank you, ricardo. Thank you to the attendees. A round of please. A reminder. Also, the nowhere bookshop outside in the festival marketplace has book sales and signing the next event will come in shortly. And so theyre asking us to boogie out of here pretty quic i im logan ward a long Time Magazine feature writer, author of the memoir see you in 100 years. Its about an experimental year i spent with my Family Living in the shenandoah valley, using only the technology from the year 1900 or earlier. But were here to talk to dean king. Ive known dean for decades now, since my earliest days in new york. I consider him a mentor and a friend. Youve got his boilerplate info, so im not going to reread that hes written many books and magazine articles. He produces tv series. My five word description of his books are he brings history to life. Its a nonfiction writer of. One of the things i most admire about dean is how turns his personal passions into, his l
Mississippi festival board of directors, i had the pleasure of working with scott on the board. Hes something of a lifer. Hes been on the board since the very of the book festival in 2015. Scotts also a member of the mississippi arts commission, the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters hes an ardent champion of arts. Hes the coowner of books and cat island coffee, house and Pass Christian and gulfport gulfport. Thank you very much and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment for of my life, my entry to america in history was through the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, franklin, and then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Martin luther king, chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, eisenhower, among many others. But then two years ago, i was fortunate enough to read jack davis as the bald eagle. And then a whole new world opened to me and missed the little earth upon which our country was founded and without which
Commission is an ardent champion of the arts. Coowner of cap pilot coffeehouse in gulfport. Thank you very much. Welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment. For most of my life my entry to American History was to the biographies of our founding fathers. Washington, jefferson, franklin, then through to lincoln, frederick douglass, theodore roosevelt, Martin Luther king, shirley chisholm, henry enerplex, james baldwin, Dwight Eisenhower among many others. Objectives is the bald eagle. In a whole new world open to me. I miss upon which our country was founded and without which they would be no United States of america. Our naturales resources, land, water, flora and fauna. How we obtain a profit from it. The stories in the lives of jack davis, patrick dean, Ryan Fitzgerald bring us understanding of our society or culture and our future. And that natural resourcesand ts recounted by the four authors a heartbeat in a context to our American History. In depth a dramati
Arts commission, and the Mississippi Institute of arts and letters. Is an artist, champion of the arts. Hes a coowner of half books and cat island coffeehouse in gulfport. Thank you very much, and welcome to our session this morning on nature and the environment. For most of my life my entry to American History was to the biographies of our founding fathers, washington, jefferson, rightclick, and then threw to lincoln, frederick douglass, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther king, shirley chisholm, henrietta lacks, james baldwin, dwight eisenhower, among manyrs others. But within two years ago i was fortunate enough to read jack davis the bald eagle. And then whole new world open to me. I missed the little upon which our country was founded, and without which there would be no United States of america, our Natural Resources, land, water, flora and fauna. And how we struggle to gain and profit from it. The stories in the lies that jack davis, patrick dean, rien fertel and deanus king bring