Deaf Authors Book Festival
at the Texas School for the Deaf
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Deaf Authors Book Festival – May 6-7, 2022
Public Schedule
Friday
(9:00am-10:00am)
Introduction of the Deaf Authors
School-wide assembly in R.L. Davis Auditorium
10:15am-11:15am
Public Book Signing I
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
11:30am-12:15am
Panel Discussion I –
Seeking Deaf Authors of Color
R.L. Davis Auditorium
1:30pm-2:30pm
Student / Author Informal Chat
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
2:45pm-4:30pm
Public Book Signing II
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
Saturday
9:00am-10:30am
Public Book Signing III
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
10:45am-11:45am
Panel Discussion II –
Deaf Playwrights Who Became Authors
R.L. Davis Auditorium
1:00pm-2:00pm
Public Book Signing IV
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
2:15pm-3:00pm
Student / Author Informal Chat
(Book signing continues)
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
3:15pm-4:30pm
Book Signing V
Administrative and Welcome Center-2nd floor
List of Authors (Click the arrow ----->)
List of 25 Deaf Authors Who Are Coming to the 2022 DABF
- Stephen C. Baldwin- “Backspace” (2015)
- Donald Bangs- “My ASL Book” (2018)
- Phil Bravin- “Controlling Our Destiny: A Board Member’s View of DEAF PRESIDENT NOW” (2020)
- Kathleen Brockway- “A Lost Shared Signing Community of Lantz Mills and Shenandoah County, Virginia” (2022)
- Simon L. Carmel- “Out of the Magic Cloak: Biographies of 68 Deaf Magicians from 23 Countries” (2019)
- John Cartwright II- “The Deaf Black Man” (2020)
- Willy Conley- “Visual-Gestural Communication: A Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception” (2019)
- T. Alan Hurwitz- “Let’s Go in: My Journey to a University Presidency” (2020)
- Mike Kane- “Deaf and Hard of Hearing Certified Public Accountants: Professional Journeys” (2021)
- Linda Lambrecht- “Lovely Hula Hands” (2021)
- Harry G. Lang- “Fighting in the Shadow” (2017) & “Turn on the Words!” (2021)
- Irene W. Leigh, Jean F. Andrews, Raychelle L Harris, Topher Gonzalez Avila - “Deaf Culture: Exploring Deaf Communities in the United States” Second Edition (2022)
- Raymond Luczack- “Once Upon a Twin” (2021)
- Marvin Miller- “Our First Discovery” (2022)
- Kevin Nolan- “From Obstacles to Political Victory” 2019.
- Melvia M. Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland- “The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making’ (2013)
- Jefferson Nunn- “Burning Mold” (2021)
- David Pierce- “Old Fogeys Treasury” (2022)
- Roslyn “Roz” Rosen- “Deaf Culture Fairy Tales” (2017)
- Barry Strassler (in memoriam)- “Gallaudet University Men’s Basketball 1904-2019” (2020)*
- Frank Turk- “From Oaks to Acorns: Promoting Deaf Youth Leadership Through Multigenerational Engagement” (2019)
*Will not appear