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This author appeared at the 2009 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Jane SmileySmiley makes her debut for young readers in The Georges and the Jewels, set on a California horse ranch in the 1960s. Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares "Jewel" and all the geldings "George" and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone – for good, it seems – and now Daddy won’t speak his name), Abby seeks refuge with the Georges and the Jewels. But there's one gelding on her family's farm that gives her no end of trouble: the horse who won’t meet her gaze, the horse who bucks her right off every chance he gets, the horse her father makes her ride and train, every day. She calls him the Ornery George. Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and more than 10 other works of fiction, as well as three works of nonfiction, including a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. In 2001, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in northern California.On the web: Click Here
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