Nationwide Activities

Texas

The Texas Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival through a Latino Authors Tour for Texas, a joint project of the Texas Book Festival and the Texas Center for the Book. Four prominent authors-- Rene Saldana, Jr., Diana Lopez, Viola Canales, David Rice will speak during September (Hispanic Heritage Month in Texas) in three different parts of the state: Texas: Dallas, Austin, and either McAllen or Edinburgh in the heavily Latino Rio Grande Valley in the area of the state closest to Mexico. The Texas Book Festival will publish a booklet with excerpts from the featured authors' works. The series will be publicized as a Latino Book Tour in honor of the National Book Festival and the Texas Book Festival. Printed publicity displays about the National Book Festival and oral announcements about the coming National and Texas (November 15-16) Book Festivals will be part of each event.

Contact: Gail Bialas, phone: 214-670-7808, fax: 214-670-7839, e-mail: gailbialas@dallaslibrary.org