9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
Conversations with Jason Berry
Jason Berry and Howard Hunter

9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Fourth Floor
Paper Girl’s World: Adventures of a Globetrotting Travel Writer in the 1980s
Judy Williamson

9:30 am to 10:15 am
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Room 118
Family Legacies, Future Plans: Lessons of Faith, Work, and Resilience
Jason G. Green, Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
Robin Wilson, Combing Cotton: Transform Your Ancestry into Your Competitive Advantage
with moderator Mona Lisa Saloy

10:00 am to 11:00 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
The Undertow of Grief: Strength and Healing in the Wake of Loss
Jill Christman, The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir
Karen C. McCord, Only Rainbows: The Carley McCord Story
Peggy Sweeney-McDonald, Life in the A-Zone: How I Embraced the Journey with My Mother's Alzheimer's One Pink Cloud Moment at a Time
with moderator Megan Holt

10:30 am to 11:15 am
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions
Alison Fensterstock and Michael Tisserand

10:30 am to 11:30 am
Iberville Building, Le Francois Room B
Little Books, Big Lives: Picture Book Biographies
Artie Bennett, The Tenth Man: A Miracle of Jewish Faith and Friendship in New Orleans
Carlotta Walls LaNier and Lisa Frazier Page, Carlotta's Special Dress: How a Walk to School Changed Civil Rights History
Frank Murphy, Charnaie Gordon, and  Anastasia Magloire Williams, Heroic Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Joe Delaney
Jason Peterson, Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of CeDell Davis
with moderator Lauren Landry

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

11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Irma Thomas: Soul Queen of New Orleans
Scott Billington, Johnette Downing, and Irma Thomas

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Stranger Than Fiction: Hidden Histories, Unlikely Lives
Benjamin Hale, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
Jon Hébert, Hear This!: A Twisted Tale of Sonic Torment
David Tuch, The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade
with moderator Morgan Tarpley Smith

Noon to 12:45 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl
Amena Brown blends storytelling, humor, and pop culture commentary to traverse the magic and wisdom she's gleaned from being raised by Southern Black women, and supported by the community of Black women who hold her down today.

Noon to 12:45 pm
State Library, Fourth Floor
Living in the Present with John Prine
Tom Piazza

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Examined Lives: Writers on Craft, Memory, and the Making of a Writer
David Armand, The Roads We Travel: A Memoir on the Craft of Writing & Living
Tracy Carr, Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist
and Lawrence Wells, Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run
with moderator Jack B. Bedell

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
State Library, Third Floor
Finding Your Faith in Literature: Why Some of the Greatest Stories are Relevant, Personal, and Transformative
Karen E.B. Elliott with moderator Emily Carpenter

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Fragments of the Everyday: Essays and Reflections
Bob Becker, Going South: Stories and Thoughts from a Northerner's Career as a Southerner
Jack B. Bedell, Fight Nights: Flash Essays
Thomas Beller, Degas at the Gas Station: Essays
with moderator Emily Nemens

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Capitol Park Museum, First Floor, Auditorium
Stone and Story: Biographies of American Monuments
Matthew Davis, Biography of a Mountain: The Making of Mount Rushmore
Brian Jay Jones, The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building
with moderator Robert Mann

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Not Up to You: Women Reckoning with Social Pressure and Systemic Abuse
Julie Cruse, The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education
Sandy Langhart Michelet, My Family Tree Stops with Me: A Guide to Purpose and Possibility
with moderator Lindsay Cronk