Second Annual Ohioana Book Festival
May 10, 2008

Audience for the opening ceremony

Greeting the start of the opening ceremony

Welcome to the 2008 Ohioana Book Festival by Tina Butler

First Lady Frances Strickland welcome everyone to the festival

Special Presentation: Our First Family's Home
L-R: Dianne McElwain, Mary Alice Mairose, Ian Adams

Panel - Children's Literature: Writing for the Young Audience
L-R: Asma Mobin-Uddin, Andrea Cheng, Tim Bowers, with Floyd C. Dickman, moderator

Panel - Literary Influences: The Book That Changed My Life
L-R: Will Hillenbrand, Marilyn Nelson

Panel - Creating Fiction: The Process
L-R: Karen Harper, Zakes Mda, and Lee Martin, moderator

Panel - People, Politics, Power & Prose
L-R: Michael Duffy, Connie Schultz, and Michael Griffaton

Reading - American Splendor
A Conversation with Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner
Photos of Robert Fox Award for Young
Writers and Letters About Literature winners
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