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Past Avid Authors

Over the past eight years, the AViD series has welcomed a diverse group of authors to Des Moines to be part of this project. Below is a list of the authors and their genres featured in the series since its inception in 2001.

AViD 2001
Donald Harstad- Iowa Mysteries
Barbara Robinette Moss - Biographical
Bill Bryson - Humor, Travel, Non-Fiction

AViD 2002
Eleanora Tate - Young Adult Fiction
Tinker Marks - Mystery (Irene Powell and Mark Montgomery)
Donald Kaul - Journalist, Non-fiction
Lisa Scottoline - Legal Thrillers and Mystery
Stephen Bloom - Non-fiction
Tom Bodett - Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

AViD 2003
Tom Hallman - Journalist, Non-fiction
Max Allan Collins - Crime thrillers
Chris Bohjalian - Journalist, Fiction
J.A. Jance - Mystery Series
Jacquelyn Mitchard - Adult Fiction
Nancy Carlson - Children’s Fiction

AViD 2004
Dow Mossman/Mark Moskowitz - Biographical/Film-maker
Juan Williams - Journalist, Historical, Non-fiction
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Romance
Rick Bragg - Journalist, Biographical, Non-fiction
Phillip Margolin - Legal Thrillers
Ruth Irene Garrett - Biographical, Non-fiction

AViD 2005
Don Harstad
Cokie Roberts
Peter Hedges
Dayton Duncan
Elizabeth Berg
Luis J. Rodriguez

AViD 2006
Mark Doty
Molly Peacock
James Tate
Maureen Corrigan
Barbara Robinette Moss
Michael Gartner
Diane Mott Davidson
David Laskin

AViD 2007
Nikki Giovanni
Jim Autry
Greg Mortenson
Erik Larson
Mary Doria Russell
Masha Hamilton
Bill Geist
Shirley Damsgaard
Chip Kidd