West Hollywood Book Fair

GORE VIDAL
Signing at Book Soup booth at 2:00pm

Gore Vidal is a legendary intellectual icon, novelist, essayist, playwright and provocateur whose career has spanned more than six decades. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. Vidal makes his home in Los Angeles. He continues to publish book-length essays on political topics, such as Dreaming War and Imperial America. He also continues to speak publicly against what he sees as the erosion of constitutional liberty in America.

JOHN DEAN
Appearing on the “Politick-Tick-Ticking: Talking 2008″ panel at 3:30pm
John Dean was legal counsel to U.S. president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Before becoming Counsel to the President of the United States in July 1970 at age thirty-one, John Dean was Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He is a retired investment banker and author. In 2004, he emerged as an outspoken critic of the administration of George W. Bush.

VICTORIA ROWELL
Appearing on the “Spotlights & Shadows: Life Stories On and Off Stages and Screens” panel at 2:00pm
Victoria Rowell is an emmy-nominated actress, who starred in the hit prime time television series Diagnosis Murder and the daytime drama The Young and the Restless. An advocate for foster children like herself, she founded the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan which enriches the lives of foster children through the arts.

AND OTHER CELEBRITY GUESTS INCLUDE…

Spotlights & Shadows: Life Stories On and Off Stages and Screens (2:00-3:00pm) features…..
Victoria Rowell (from the television series’ “The Young & The Restless”, “Diagnosis Murder”)
Chuck Panazzo (from the rock group “STYX”)
Neile McQueen Toffel (aka Neile Adams — actress/singer, former wife of Steve McQueen)

Healthy Living with Mariel Hemingway & Dr. Keith Mumby (3:00-3:35pm at the In Conversation Pavilion) features…
Mariel Hemingway (Academy-Award nominated actress) appearing on

Storytime: Actors, Authors and Children Reading Children’s Books & Stories (11:15-:1:00pm on the Target Children’s Stage) features….

Barbara Bain (from the television series “Mission: Impossible”)
Christopher Maleki (from the television series “Passions”)
Kenn Michael (aka Kenny Blank — from the television series “The Parenthood”)

Los Angeles Theatre Works Booth (12:00-1:00pm) Henry Winkler (from the television series “Happy Days”) will be signing.

PEN USA/Word Theatre Present “Readings From Banned Books” (3:30-4:15pm on the Robertson Salon Stage) features….

Gary Dourdan (from the television series “CSI”)
Catherine Dent (from the television series “The Shield”)
Sarah Clarke (from the television series “24″)
Xander Berkeley (from the television series “24″)
Robert Wuhl (from the television series “Arliss”)

Star Trek Manga: Opening New Worlds for Classic Trek (Noon-1:00pm at the That’s Entertainment Pavilion)

Wil Wheaton (from the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation”)

Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award Event (the night before the Book Fair, Sept. 19 @ 7:00pm, at the Pacific Design Center)

Celebrating Dorothy and Her Friends Reading

Tonya Pinkins (Tony-Award winning star of “Caroline, or Change”, also on television series “All My Children”)
Tony Tripoli (from the television series “Fashion House”)
Chloe Webb (from film’s “Sid and Nancy”)
Mary Jo Catlett (Mrs. Puff of “Sponge Bob Squarepants”)
John Glover (Tony-Award winning actor, also on television series “Smallville”)
Bruce Davison (Academy-award nominated film actor)
Gordon Thomson (from television’s legendary “Dynasty”)