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AAUW presents fourth ‘Authorama’

By Kathy Engle

Published: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:44 PM MST

Book lovers will be happy to learn that the local branch of the American Association of University Women plans to repeat its “Authorama” event next month —this time with a famous writer headlining.

He’s Michael Blake, author of the book and screenplay “Dances With Wolves.”

Blake, who lives on the a ranch in the Tucson area, said his friend Kevin Costner urged him to turn his story into what became an award-winning film, which Costner starred in. Blake will talk about his work and future projects.

“Authorama” will be held on March 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley. The event is open to the public and tickets are priced at $5 each. Proceeds from the fundraiser, held every two years will be used for local scholarships, AAUW’s national fund and its Legal Advocacy Committee.

In addition to Blake, 20 other Southwest authors will discuss their books.

They are:

Nancy Turner, author of “These is My Words,” a powerful story about a fiery young woman named Sarah Prine, one of the most memorable women to survive and prevail in the Arizona Territory of the late 1880s. “Sarah’s Quilt” is the sequel.

Tallia Pfrimmer Cahoon, a Ruby, Arizona native. who co-authored “Ruby: Mining, Mahem and Murder.” The retired educator has been conducting tours of Ruby for Pima Community College since 1994.

Jane Eppinga, author of “Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point’s First Black Graduate,” and “Arizona Sheriffs: Badges and Bad Men,” and “Black Heroes: America’s Buffalo Soldiers.”

Barbara Marriot, author of “Canyon of Gold,” a description of pioneer life in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

“Patricia Preciado Martin, a lifelong Tucsonan, former teacher and award-winning writer whose works include “Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona,” among other books.

Southwest Crime Ink members J.M. (Mike) Hayes, anthropologist/archealogist; Elizabeth Gunn, travel writer; Susan Cummings Miller, geologist; and J. Carson Black (Margaret Falk) will speak as a panel about each of their detective/mystery novels set in the Southwest.

Betty Webb will discuss her Lena Jones private detective series that began with “Desert Noir.”

Mark Bahti, an expert on Indian arts and crafts, will highlight his latest books “Pueblo Stories and Storytellers” and “Spirit of the Stone.” The renown Southwestern scholar, writer and dealer brings 30 years of experience to his books and plans to bring some jewelry to display for discussion.

Arivaca author, Byrd Baylor, whose book “The Way to Start A Day” was awarded a Caldecott Honor.

Lynn Hassler, author of “Hummingbirds of the American West.”

Children’s book author Susan Lowell, whose works include “The Three Little Javelinas.”

Delma Luben, author of “The Other Sheep” and the ““Writing World”

Lynn Peril, author of “Thin Pink: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.”

Doris Steffy , who lovingly chronicles her mother’s journey from homemaker to funeral director in “Mrs. Steffy: Our Mother, the Mortician.”

Evelyn Tennehill, a Green Valley resident, who writes about her own experiences as a young girl in the German province of East Prussia during World War II in “Abandoned and Forgotten.”

Tickets are available at the door the day of the event. For more information, call Joan DuDeVoire, chairman, at 393-1649.

kengle@gvnews.com | 547-9739


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