ALA 2010 Annual Conference Program and Exhibit Directory

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Marilyn Johnson, This Book is Overdue!: How
Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us
All(HarperCollins). Marilyn Johnson was a staff
writer for Lifeand an editor at Esquire, Redbook,and
Outside,and has written for many other
publications. Her first book, The Dead Beat,was a
finalist for the B&N Discover Award and a Border’s
Original Voice. Publisher’s Weekly praised This
Book is Overdue!as “Illuminating the state of the
modern librarian with humor and authority... a
must-read for anyone who’s used a library in the
past quarter century.” She lives in New York City.
(photo credit: Carol Lundeen)
Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter (HarperCollins).
Daphne Kalotay attended Vassar College, where
she graduated with a BA in psychology and Boston
University’s Creative Writing Program where she
completed a PhD in modern and contemporary
literature. Author of the acclaimed fiction collection
Calamityand Other Stories,she has received