The festival is happening April 13 in Downtown San Antonio
kicks off on April 13 and will feature over 100 authors from all over Texas and the country. As the festival nears, we are getting an inside look at a few of the authors attending the event.
“So I’m excited about that. Just getting it in front of a new audience, talking about it and sort of dispelling any nervousness that people have about live storytelling,” Pool said.“It’s based loosely on the true story of my great-grandfather. He was a Bandido, who was chased down by the Texas Rangers and shot in the face, but he lived. People started calling him El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower,” James said.
“It’s an interesting example of Texans, in this case, rural Texans, coming together and working literally cooperatively to bring a benefit to their way of life,” Holley said. His book features pictures from his family, charreadas, La Virgen de Guadalupe and even pictures of Selena. She got the idea for her book while she was working at the Texas Observer as an editor covering housing. Kimble had written a story about a land development code that failed in Austin and within a couple of months, the Texas Transportation Commission allocated $4 Billion to expand I-35 through the heart of Austin.
Kibuishi also credits growing up in the 1990s and being inspired by movies by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. “In a lot of ways, I feel like people can be intimidated by poetry and I’m hopeful that it’s a book that is accessible to a wide range of readers,” Browne said. Frost says after living in Mexico for so long and now, visiting frequently, she calls both Texas and Mexico her home.
Frost is no stranger to the San Antonio Book Festival, as she’s been in years past. She’s excited to attend again, to speak about and show the compelling visual record of Walter Elias Hadsell’s time in Mexico.was born and raised in San Antonio. He graduated from Brackenridge High School in 1996 and went on to study history in college at Southwest Texas State University where Esparza earned his bachelor’s and master’s in history.
Esparza learned about a community in Del Rio that created its own independent school district organized by Mexican Americans in 1929. He researched this community and wrote his book,“This book does in many ways try to say, ‘Look, we need to provide a curriculum that’s fair, and that’s balanced, and that’s accurate and we need to fill in the gaps,’” said Esparza.
They have been friends for many years and have been working on books together for the past seven years.is a story that follows the making of an ofrienda for a pet, during the traditionally Mexican Dia de los Muertos celebration.
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