The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Julie Liddell Whitehead

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Julie Liddell Whitehead lives and writes from Mississippi. An award-winning freelance writer, Whitehead covered disasters from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina throughout her career. She writes on mental health, mental health education, and mental health advocacy. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in English, both from Mississippi State University. In August 2021, she completed her MFA from Mississippi University for Women.


Schedule

11:15 am to 12:15 pm

State Capitol, House Committee Room 1

Dealing with Life’s Insanities: Madville Publishing

with Rod Davis, R.J. Lee, Julie Lidell Whitehead, and Steve Yates

 

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

Hurricane Baby: Stories

In 2005, Wendy Magnum of Hattiesburg, Mississippi suffers remorse after having an intimate encounter with Judd McKay, a friend her husband, Ray, trusted with his family during Hurricane Katrina. Tommy Hebert turns to alcohol to handle what he saw in search-and-rescue in Metairie, Louisiana. Mike Seabrook's relationships with his God and his wife, Dinah, are tested after he loses a patient in his emergency room in Slidell, Louisiana. Lori King goes into premature labor as a result of the storm, and her husband, James, discovers that his best friend died trying to protect the Kings' home in Kenner, Louisiana from looters.

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