Miki Pfeffer holds a PhD in Urban History and focuses on the culture of women. Her Southern Ladies and Suffragists won a Eudora Welty prize, and A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns brought her into Twain scholarship. She subscribes to the adage that “historians are people who like to read other people’s mail” and continues to transcribe all correspondence of Grace King and family. She is a visiting scholar at Nicholls State University.

Schedule

9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
Names Changed, Truth Intact: Fact, Fiction, and Tom Aswell's The Dinosaur Club
Tom Aswell with moderator Miki Pfeffer

10:30 am to 11:30 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Fierce Women: Power, Resistance, and Reinvention
Melissa Daggett, Eugène and Eulalie
James P. Gregory, Jr., Vaudeville’s Flower: The Many Lives of Cora Youngblood Corson
and Roberta Brandes Gratz, Fearless Philanthropy: Edith Rosenwald Stern’s Campaigns to Transform Lives in New Orleans
with moderator Miki Pfeffer

11:45 am to 12:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Women and War: Secrets, Loss, and Survival
Sheryl Cornett, No Secrets in this House: A Novel
Karen Essex, Run, Darling
Elisa M. Speranza, Triage: A Novel
with moderator Miki Pfeffer

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