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Untold Histories of D-Day:

A Conversation with

Garrett M. Graff

C-SPAN/OLD SUPREME COURT

PRESENTED BY Candace L. & John F. Kime;

University of Southern Mississippi Dale

Center for the Study of War & Society

COVERAGE PROVIDED BY C-SPAN

ROOM BY BarbourHurst

Garrett M. Graf, journalist, historian, and Pulitzer Prize

Finalist, recounts the dramatic and heroic moments of

D-Day – from the secret creation of landing planes by top

government and military ofcials and the organization of

troops to the moment the boat doors opened to reveal the

beach where men fought for their lives and the future of

the free world.

• Heather Marie Stur (moderator) – 21 Days to Baghdad:

General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War

• Garrett M. Graff – When the Sea Came Alive:

An Oral History of D-Day

10:45 am

Southern Fiction

STATE CAPITOL 201 H

PRESENTED BY Te Source by BankPlus;

Wilma Wagner Cleveland

Southern novels are haunted by fgurative and literal

ghosts as their protagonists encounter familiar strangers

and mysterious loved-ones.

• Lauren Rhoades (moderator)

• Mary Annaïse Heglar – Troubled Waters

• Minrose Gwin – Beautiful Dreamers

• Jamie Quatro – Two-Step Devil

• Gerry Wilson – That Pinson Girl

Ezra Jack Keats

Award-Winners

& Honorees

GALLOWAY FELLOWSHIP CENTER

PRESENTED BY Fay B. Kaigler Children’s

Book Festival; University of Southern

Mississippi de Grummond Children’s

Literature Collection

Picture book authors and illustrators honor

and delight in family, food, and nature in this panel

of 2024 Ezra Jack Keats Award-winners and honorees.

• Ellen Hunter Ruffin (moderator)

• Anne Wynter – Nell Plants a Tree

• Sarah Gonzales – The Only Way to Make Bread

• Kim Rogers – Just Like Grandma

• Helena Ku Rhee – Sora’s Seashells

Friendship & Narrative

GALLOWAY RECEPTION

PRESENTED BY Jones Walker LLP;

Jackie Posey Bailey

Friends and fellow creatives discuss

the art of shaping a story in their various genres.

• Betsy Bradley (moderator)

• Noah Saterstrom – What Became of Dr. Smith

• Ann Patchett – Tom Lake + The Verts

• Kate DiCamillo – Ferris

Rivers of Mississippi

STATE CAPITOL 103

PRESENTED BY Julie & Brad Chism;

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Get an in depth look at the waterways that connect

our towns, provide our sustenance, and thus dictate

our lives in this insightful panel on the many rivers

that traverse our state.

• Patrick Dean (moderator) – Nature’s Messenger:

Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World

• Boyce Upholt – The Great River:

The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

• Ernest Herndon – Paddleways of Mississippi:

Rivers and People of the Magnolia State

• Patrick Parker – Paddleways of Mississippi:

Rivers and People of the Magnolia State

In Conversation

with Major Jackson

STATE CAPITOL 204

PRESENTED BY Friendly City Books;

University of Mississippi Department

of English

Two decades’ worth of poems trace award-winning

poet Major Jackson’s evolution as a writer,

and the course of American culture in this millennium,

in Jackson’s newest collection.

• Beth Ann Fennelly (moderator) – Heating & Cooling:

52 Micro-Memoirs

• Major Jackson – Razzle Dazzle:

New and Selected Poems 2002-2022

Terri Blackstock

FIRST BAPTIST SANCTUARY

PRESENTED BY Watkins & Eager, PLLC

Christian author and Mississippi resident

Terri Blackstock explores the mysteries of faith

as well as faith-based mysteries in recounting

her many best-selling books and career as a writer.

• Robert Fortenberry (moderator)

• Terri Blackstock – Aftermath

Reimagining Classics

STATE CAPITOL 113

PRESENTED BY Te Grenn Family;

Rebecca & Ty Hardy

Tales of old become new in these retellings

that draw from the wisdom of classic stories

reimagined in fresh settings.

• Katy Simpson Smith (moderator) – The Weeds

• Rachel Lyon – Fruit of the Dead

• Julia Phillips – Bear

• Jen Fawkes – Daughters of Chaos

• Katya Apekina – Mother Doll

Memoir

STATE CAPITOL 201 A

PRESENTED BY Janet & Luther Ott;

Nancy & Cecil Brown

Tese authors discuss their stories at all diferent ages

and paces in their memoirs as intriguing and singular

as they are.

• Dustin Parsons (moderator) – Exploded View:

Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams

• Priyanka Mattoo – Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

• Joseph Earl Thomas – Sink: A Memoir

• Julian Randall – The Dead Don’t Need Reminding:

In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit

FAMILY-

FRIENDLY

In Conversation

with Richard Grant

GALLOWAY SANCTUARY

PRESENTED BY Crooks Foundation

Richard Grant, reporter and author of

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi

Delta, speaks about his new memoir

about moving to Arizona with his wife and child

in the midst of a truly wild time for the state.

• Mary Miller (moderator) – Biloxi

• Richard Grant – A Race to the Bottom of Crazy:

Dispatches from Arizona

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