© Clare Welsh

2023 Louisiana Writer Award recipient Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The American Daughters, named an Electric Lit and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was longlisted for the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University.

Schedule

10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Library, Third Floor
Whose South, Whose Story: What Hath Jim Crow Wrought?
Wendy A. Gaudin, Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole
Adolph L. Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Third Floor
“Dr. Werthless”: He Studied Murder and Nearly Killed the Comics Industry
Harold Schechter with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
Michele Filgate and Maurice Carlos Ruffin with moderator David Armand

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 
Outside Museum, South Tent
Unquiet Communities: Myth, Murder, and the Search for Justice
Eli Cranor, Mississippi Blue 42: A Novel
Laurie L. Dove, The Mask of the Deer Woman: A Novel
Matthew Sullivan, Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Moderator