Featured Authors, 2000
- June 3: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, author of "Beloved," "Song of Solomon," and "Jazz."
- June 10: More of Don Noble's conversation with Toni Morrison.
- June 17: John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good And Evil," his tremendously successful book about murder, money, and voodoo in Savannah, Ga.
- June 24: Birmingham native Sena Jeter Naslund, whose new book, "Ahab's Wife," has been called "a masterpiece" by reviewer after reviewer.
- July 1: The first of two conversations with Peter Guralncik, author of "Last Train to Memphis" and "Careless Love." This biography of Elvis Presley is one of the most acclaimed biographies of a popular figure ever to be published.
- July 8: Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick talks about Elvis and the movies, Elvis and The Colonel, and Elvis and the Memphis Mafia.
- July 15: Alabama native Helen Ellis, whose book "Eating the Chesire Cat" was one of the most widley publicized first novels in the last year.
- July 22: Ernest Gaines, author of many novels including "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," "A Gathering of Old Men," and "A Lesson Before Dying," tells why he sets his fiction in the Louisiana of his childhood.
- July 29: Tom Franklin discusses "Poachers," his collection of stories set in South Alabama. The New York Times praised Franklin as "one of the region's more interesting emerging voices."
- Coming in August and September: Clyde Bolton, Judy Goldman, Andrew Mannis, Ishmael Reed, Herb Francis, and Mike Stewart
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