People of the Book author Geraldine Brooks will be speaking at 3:30 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 4:15.

Geraldine Brooks is the author of March, the 2006 Pulitzer prizewinner in fiction. She also is the author of Year of Wonders, Nine Parts of Desire, and Foreign Correspondence. During 11 years at The Wall Street Journal, her beats included some of the world’s most troubled areas including Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, Ms. Brooks lives in Vineyard Haven with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, their sons, and their three dogs.

Last Lion editor Peter Canellos will be speaking at 5 p.m. in the Stonewell tent and signing books at 11:45 a.m.

Peter Canellos has been the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau chief and author of the weekly National Perspective column since 2003. He oversees all the Globe’s national coverage. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Canellos served as metro editor, overseeing local coverage. Mr. Canellos covered the presidential campaigns in 1992 and 1996, served as a national roving correspondent and for a time was a Sunday writer emphasizing legal affairs.

The Case for Moral Clarity author Alan Dershowitz will be speaking at 5 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 5:45 p.m.

Alan Dershowitz is a criminal defense lawyer and the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is known for his career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. An emphatic proponent of civil liberties, he is also a prolific writer and frequent guest on radio and television programs. Mr. Dershowitz is the author of 27 nonfiction works and two novels.

Morning Glory Farm author Tom Dunlop and photographer Alison Shaw will be speaking at 1:15 p.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 2 p.m.

Tom Dunlop, a lifelong year-round and summer resident of the Island, is a former editor of, and contributing writer to, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine. He is also the coeditor of the second edition of the Vineyard Gazette Reader. He lives in New York city, where he also works as a film producer.

Lethal Legacy author Linda Fairstein will be speaking at 4:15 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent, and signing books at 5 p.m.

Linda Fairstein, one of America’s foremost legal experts on crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence, ran the Sex Crimes Unit of the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan for more than two decades. Her first novel, Final Jeopardy, which introduced the character Alexandra Cooper, was published in 1996 to critical and commercialacclaim. Her nonfiction book, Sexual Violence, was a New York Times Notable Book in1994. She lives with her husband in New York and on Martha’s Vineyard.

In Search of Our Roots author Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be speaking at 11 a.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 11:45 a.m.

Professor Gates is editor-in-chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field of African American Studies and Africana Studies, and of The Root, an online news magazine dedicated to coverage of African American news, culture and genealogy. In 2008, Oxford University Press published the African American National Biography. In Search of Our Roots is a meditation on genetics, genealogy and race, and a collection of expanded profiles featured on his PBS documentary series, African American Lives. His other recent books are America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans, African American Lives, co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited with Hollis Robbins. His documentary Looking for Lincoln was broadcast on PBS in February, and his edited collection of President Lincoln’s writing and speeches, Lincoln on Race and Slavery, was published in February as well.

Still Alice author Lisa Genova is speaking at 12:30 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 1:15 p.m.

Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University. She has done research on the molecular etiology of depression, Parkinson’s Disease, drug addiction and memory loss following stroke. She is a proud and active member of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International and DementiaUSA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer’s Association (actionalz.blogspot.com). She spends a considerable amount of time acting on stage in Boston and in local independentfilms. She is currently working on her next novel, Left Neglected (leftneglected.com).

Intent to Kill author James Grippando is speaking at 3:30 p.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 4:15 p.m.

James Grippando is the bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense from HarperCollinsincluding Born to Run, Last Call, Lying with Strangers, Got the Look, Hear No Evil, and ThePardon. He is also the author of a thriller for younger readers, Leapholes (ABA), and in 2006 contributed a short story to the acclaimed Thrillercollection.  James is now Counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, one of the nation’s leading litigation law firms, headed by David Boies. Born and raised outside of Chicago, Mr. Grippando lives in Miami with where he was a trial lawyer for 12 years.

Camus: A Romance author Elizabeth Hawes is speaking at 11:45 a.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 12:30 p.m.

Elizabeth Hawes is the author of New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and a contributor to The New Yorker, she has also written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation, and numerous other publications.

A Voyage Long and Strange author Tony Horowitz is speaking at 2:45 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 3:30 p.m.

Tony Horwitz is the bestselling author of Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic, and Baghdad Without a Map. He is also a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who has worked for The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Geraldine Brooks, and their two sons.

Seen the Glory author John Hough Jr. is speaking at 2:45 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 3:30 p.m.

John Hough Jr. grew up in Falmouth and now lives on Martha’s Vineyard. His grandfather and his father edited the Falmouth Enterprise and his great-uncle was for many years the editor of the VineyardGazette. Mr. Hough is the author of four previous novels, including The Last Summer, and three works of nonfiction.

The Increment author David Ignatius will be speaking at 11:45 a.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 12:30 p.m.

David R. Ignatius writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post on global politics, economics and international affairs, which is syndicated worldwide. He also cohosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues at Washingtonpost.com. His column won the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and a 2004 Edward Weintal Prize. Mr. Ignatius has written seven novels in the suspense/espionage fiction genre, which draw on his experience and interest in foreign affairs. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the rights to Ignatius’s most recent novel, The Increment.

Losing the News author Alex Jones is speaking at 12:30 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 1:15 p.m.

Alex S. Jones works as a journalist, author and academic and has made a specialty of covering the media itself. In 2000, Mr. Jones became director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School for Government at Harvard University. In 1987, Mr. Jones was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his articles in The New York Times on the collapse of the Bingham fam ily’s newspaper empire in Louisville, Kentucky.  From 1983 until 1992, he covered the press for The New York Times, writing on a wide range of media issues from the ethical dilemmas to financial matters. Losing The News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, will be published by Oxford University Press this month.

Exiles in the Garden author Ward Just is speaking at 5 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 5:45 p.m.

Ward Just is the author of 15 previous novels, including the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. In his career, beginning as a war correspondent for Newsweek and The Washington Post, Just has lived and written in half a dozen countries, including Britain, France, and Vietnam. His characters often lead public lives as politicians, civil servants, soldiers, artists, and writers. Just and his wife, Sarah Catchpole, divide their time between Martha’s Vineyard and Paris.

The Big One author David Kinney is speaking at 2 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 2:45 p.m.

Author of The Big One, David Kinney has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press and The Star-Ledger (Newark), where he was on the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. While he currently ranks among the 90 per cent of fishermen who catch 10 per cent of the fish, he’s working to change that. He lives outside Philadelphia.

The Fence author Dick Lehr is speaking at 4:15 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 5 p.m.

Dick Lehr, a reporter at the Boston Globe for nearly two decades, is now a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal and most recently coauthor of Judgment Ridge: The True Story of the Dartmouth Murders. His latest book is The Fence.

The Great Decision author David McKean is speaking at 2 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 2:45 p.m.

David McKean was born in South Hamilton and educated at Harvard College, Duke Law School, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has worked in government for more than 20 years, serving as chief of staff to Sen. John Kerry from 1999 until2008. He is currently the staff director for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of two previous books: Friends in High Places: The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford, a New York Times Notable Book of 1995, and Tommy the Cork: Washington’s Ultimate Insider From Roosevelt to Reagan, a Washington Post Best Book of 2004. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children.

Letters from Black America author Pamela Newkirk is speaking at 11:45 a.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 12:30 p.m.

Pamela Newkirk is the editor of A Love No Less and the author of Within the Veil, which won the National Press Club Award for Media Criticism. She is an award-winning journalist and an associate professor of journalism at New York University.

Defenders of the Faith author James Reston Jr. is speaking at 1:15 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 2 p.m.

James Reston Jr. is the author of 14 previous books, including Warriors of God, Dogs of God, Galileo: A Life, and The Conviction of Richard Nixon. Winner of the Prix Italia and the Dupont-Columbia Award for his 1983 documentary, Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown, his books have been translated into 13 languages.

Dog on It author Spencer Quinn, aka Peter Abrahams, is speaking at 2 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 2:45 p.m.

Spencer Quinn is the pen name of Peter Abrahams. Dog on It, first in the Chet and Bernie series, is a New York Times bestseller. It is Mr. Quinn’s first book, but Peter Abrahams is the author of 21 other novels, including Oblivion (2005) and Into the Dark (2008, third in the Echo Falls series for younger readers). Delusion (2008) was widely praised in the international media. Reality Check, Abrahams’s latest novel for younger readers came out in spring 2009. Spencer Quinn is much cooler than Peter Abrahams, who was born in Brookline, grew up in the U.S., Canada and the Bahamas, and lives with his family on Cape Cod. His mother taught him most of what he knows about writing.

Negotiate Like a Pro author Kenneth Shropshire is speaking at 3:30 p.m. in the Menemsha tent and signing books at 4:15 p.m.

Kenneth L. Shropshire, the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of several award-winning books such as The Business of Sports, The Business of Sports Agents, The Sports Franchise Game, In Black and White, Sports and the Law, and Basketball Jones. His expert views have been presented in the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, National Public Radio and Nightline. A Stanford and Columbia Law graduate, Shropshire previously worked in private law practice and as an executive with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. He serves as an arbitrator with clients including the National Football League Players Association and USA Track and Field.

The Addict author Michael Stein is speaking at 4:15 p.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 5 p.m.

A novelist, physician and author of The Lonely Patient, Michael Stein has been treating addiction for more than 20 years. A professor of medicine at Brown University, he is also an international authority on substance abuse. His latest book, The Addict, follows a young woman’s struggle with her addiction to Vicodin. He lives in Providence, R.I.

Author of Lift Every Voice Patricia Sullivan is speaking at 12:30 p.m. in the Stonewall tent and signing books at 1:15 p.m.

Patricia Sullivan writes about the history of black-white relations in the United States and the struggle for racial justice and civil rights. Her book, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, published in conjunction with the NAACP’s centennial, is the first comprehensive history of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Her other books include Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years, a firsthand account of the civil rights movement in Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s. She is also the author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and coeditor of Civil Rights in the United States, a two-volume encyclopedia. Prof. Sullivan has taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches history at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Vineyard Haven.

Big Man on Campus author Stephen Trachtenberg is speaking at 1:15 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 2 p.m.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is university professor of public service and president emeritus of The George Washington University, after serving 19 years as the 15th president of the University. He arrived at GW in 1988 from the University of Hartford (president) and prior to that, he was at Boston University, as Dean of Arts and Sciences and vice president. He currently is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Author of The Little Sleep Paul Tremblay is speaking at 2:45 p.m. in the Squibnocket tent and signing books at 3:15 p.m.

Paul Tremblay is the author of the novels The Little Sleep and the forthcoming No Sleep till Wonderland (February 2010). He is a two-time nominee of the Bram Stoker award and has sold more than 50 short stories to markets such as Razor Magazine, Weird Tales, Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, and Best American Fantasy 3. He is the author of the short speculative fiction collection Compositions for the Young and Old and the hard-boiled/dark fantasy novella City Pier: Above and Below. Paul is currently a juror for the Shirley Jackson Award.