Author Profiles
Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.
Pamela A. Popper
Pamela A. Popper, Ph.D., ND, is a naturopath; an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine, and health; and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. Dr. Popper serves on the Physician’s Steering Committee and the President’s Board for the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Popper is one of the health care professionals involved in the famed Sacramento Food Bank Project, in which economically disadvantaged people were shown how to reverse their diseases and eliminate medications with diet.…
Read MorePamela A. Popper, Ph.D., ND, is a naturopath; an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine, and health; and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. Dr. Popper serves on the Physician’s Steering Committee and the President’s Board for the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Popper is one of the health care professionals involved in the famed Sacramento Food Bank Project, in which economically disadvantaged people were shown how to reverse their diseases and eliminate medications with diet. Dr. Popper is part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s teaching team at eCornell, teaching part of a certification course on plant-based nutrition. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing, and appeared in Forks Over Knives, which played in major theaters throughout North America in 2011. She is one of the coauthors of the companion book, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for several months.
Frank W. Porter
Dr. Frank W. Porter earned his Ph.D. in Historical Geography at the University of Maryland and came to his appreciation of native plants by a circuitous route. He spent most of his childhood overseas as his father was transferred from one Army post to another, and he has vivid memories of fields of poppies in France, alpine plants in the Alps, and dark forests in Germany.…
Read MoreDr. Frank W. Porter earned his Ph.D. in Historical Geography at the University of Maryland and came to his appreciation of native plants by a circuitous route. He spent most of his childhood overseas as his father was transferred from one Army post to another, and he has vivid memories of fields of poppies in France, alpine plants in the Alps, and dark forests in Germany. After a career as a Native American scholar, Dr. Porter returned to southern Ohio and began growing plants as a hobby, which quickly turned into a vocation. Porterbrook Native Plants nursery, on the banks of the Ohio River in southeastern Ohio, is devoted to the native plants of southern Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia. Dr. Porter continues to collect seeds from interesting and endangered species in the area, and friends and associates send him seeds from plants in neighboring states. He provides native plants for gardeners and public gardens, which he also designs throughout Ohio and West Virginia.