Featured Authors

  • Reed Farrel Coleman
    May 2, 2010 | 1:44 pm

    Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, Reed is the former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America.  He has published eleven novels—two under his pen name Tony Spinosa—In three series.  His most recent novel, Tower, was co-authored with award-winning Irish writer Ken Bruen.  Reed is a three-time winner of the Shamus Award [...]

  • A. Manette Ansay
    March 26, 2010 | 4:16 pm

    A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins.   She is the author of six novels, including  Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009) and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist the the National Book Critics Circle award.  In addition, she is the author [...]

  • Kris Radish
    February 7, 2010 | 12:39 pm

    Kris Radish fell in love with words as a little girl when she discovered the joy of reading about Nancy Drew. By the beginning of eighth grade she had read every book in her local Wisconsin library and knew she was going to be a writer. With almost a million of her bestselling novels in [...]

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The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is a free community-wide event organized by the UW-Waukesha Foundation in cooperation with community groups that include the Waukesha County Federated Library System, the Waukesha Public Library, the Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha and Martha Merrell’s Bookstore. The Festival will be held June 18-19, 2010 at the UW-Waukesha campus. Read more…

Explore our site to learn more about the Festival and how you can become involved. Go to our news page to see the latest information on the Festival and who is in our Author Spotlight.

Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha

Join Festival Partner The Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha has they help kick off the fun with their Annual Corporate Spelling Bee on Thursday, June 10 at the Country Springs Hotel.

Come to The Literacy Council Read-a-Thon on Saturday, June 19 at the Festival!

For more information on either event, call the Literacy Council at 262-547-7323 or visit their website at www.waukeshaliteracy.org

Next Door Foundation To Collect Books For Kids

Milwaukee’s Next Door Foundation will be at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books collecting new and gently used children’s books for their Books for Kids program.  This program, founded in 1990, works through book drives like this one to increase literacy and academic success among  Milwaukee’s central city children by getting books into the hands of  children who otherwise may not have books to call their own.   By expanding the number and frequency of reading experiences, Books for Kids inspires young people to develop an appreciation and love for books.

Look for Books for Kids collection bins in the Exhibitor area to be located in the UW-Waukesha Commons Building  both days of the Festival .