Program Description
Event Details
Join us for the 2023 Mountain of Authors program, featuring keynote speaker Alan Prendergast, author of Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan. Local authors will be available for meet and greets, book signings, and book sales. Please bring a variety of payment methods (cash, check, credit card) if you are interested in purchasing books.
Please see the schedule of events below:
12pm - doors open and Local Author Showcase
1pm - Panel Presentation featuring Patricia Raybon, Marc Cameron, and Randi Samuelson-Brown
2pm - Local Author Showcase
3pm - Keynote Address by Alan Prendergast, followed by Audience Q&A
4pm - Book signing and Local Author Showcase
For more information, please visit ppld.org/moa.
ALAN PRENDERGAST is an award-winning journalist whose stories about the justice system, historic crimes, high-security prisons, and "death by misadventure" have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Crime Reporting, The Best American Sports Writing and the true-crime anthology Seven Sins. He is the author of Gangbuster (Kensington Books), a narrative nonfiction account of the life and times of Philip Van Cise, the Denver district attorney who battled the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, when the KKK was in the process of taking political control of Colorado.
A Denver native, Prendergast has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State University, where he studied as a Kiplinger Fellow. He teaches journalism at Colorado College and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, the BBC and numerous other television, radio, and podcast programs to discuss his work.
PATRICIA RAYBON is a writer of faith by day and mystery by night. She is a Christy Award-winning Colorado author, essayist, and novelist who writes daring and exciting books and stories at the intersection of faith and race.
An award-winning feature writer during her years at The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News—and a journalism faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder for 16 years—Patricia turned to fiction in 2021 with a 1920s murder mystery series featuring a young Black theologian who’s a fan of Sherlock Holmes and seeks to solve crime in Colorado’s dangerous Klan era.
MARC CAMERON New York Times bestselling author Marc Cameron’s Jericho Quinn thriller series debuted in 2011. Since then, he’s written eight Quinn novels and four Arliss Cutter novels featuring a deputy US marshal based in Alaska, including the most recent Cutter, Cold Snap, and the upcoming Breakneck (April 2023 from Kensington Publishing Corp.) Marc is the author of six Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan novels for the Tom Clancy estate, including the most recent, Red Winter, and the upcoming Command and Control (November 2023 from GP Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House.)
RANDI SAMUELSON-BROWN A C-CPAN author, Randi Samuelson-Brown is originally from Golden, Colorado, but now lives in Denver. A finalist in the 2021 Colorado Book Awards for The Bad Old Days of Colorado (non-fiction), she won Equus Film Awards - Best Western 2022 – for her book Brand Chaser, published by Wolfpack.