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A.E. Rooks

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2026 A.E. Rooks

A.E. Rooks is the author of The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade, winner of the Maritime Foundation’s Mountbatten Award for Best Book in 2022. A Jeopardy! champion who’s additionally received two national awards for sex positive journalism, Rooks’s literary passions are united by what the past can teach us about the present, how history shapes our future, and above all, really interesting stories.

 

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