Past Annual Authors'
Nights Guests
2012
Jean Auel
Jennifer Lauck
2011
Paul Merchant
Emily Chenoweth
2010
Judith Barrington
John Kroger
2009
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lee Montgomery
2008
Molly Gloss
Robert Hill
2007
Jess Walter
Brian Doyle
2006
Carole Radziwill
Maura Conlon-McIvor
2005
Ivan Doig
John Irving
Norman Mailer
Meg Wolitzer
2004
Clemens Starck
Whitney Otto
2003
Ann Rule
Karen Karbo
2002
Phillip Margolin
Larry Colton
2001
Craig Lesley
Marjorie Sandor
2000
Peg Bracken
Ehud Havazalet
1999
Peter Ho Davies
Lars Nördstrom
1998
Terrence O’Donnell
1997
Robin Cody
Jean Auel
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About the Authors:
Steve Perry: (From his website)
Steve Perry was born and raised in the deep south and has lived in Louisiana, California, Washington and Oregon. He is married to the former Dianne Waller, an executive with the Port of Portland. They have two grown children, four grandsons, a German Shepherd Dog, and a cat.
Before turning to full-time freelance writing, Perry held a variety of jobs, including: swimming instructor and lifeguard; toy assembler; hotel gift shop and car rental clerk; aluminum salesman; martial arts instructor; private detective; Licensed Practical Nurse and Certified Physician's Assistant.
Perry has sold dozens of stories to magazines and anthologies, as well as a considerable number of novels, animated teleplays, non-fiction articles, reviews, and essays, along with a couple of unproduced movie scripts. He wrote for Batman: The Animated Series during its first emmy-award winning season, and during the second season, one of his scripts was nominated for an emmy for Outstanding Writing. His novelization of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire spent ten weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He also did the bestselling novelization for the summer blockbuster movie Men in Black, and seven of his collaborative novels for Tom Clancy's Net Force series have made the NY Times list. For the past several years he has concentrated on books, and is currently working on his 54th novel.
Perry is a member of various organizations, including: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; The Animation Guild, Local #839 (IATSE); Writers Guild of America, West; and the TriCounty Gun Club. He is a beginning student of the Indonesian martial art Penjak Silat, under Maha Guru Stevan Plinck, of Vancouver, Washington, and was a player in the largest guitar band ever assembled, according the Guiness Book of World Records.
 Leni Zumas:
Leni Zumas is the author of the novel The Listeners (Tin House) and the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City). Her fiction has appeared most recently in Keyhole, Gigantic, Salt Hill, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Zumas has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the University of Massachusetts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University.
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