FORGED IN STEEL CO-AUTHORS SIGN BOOKS AT THE HEINZ HISTORY CENTER'S "BOOKS IN THE BURGH" 2013
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Damian Williams and Tunch Ilkin signing copies of Forged in Steel |
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7, 2013 - Forged in Steel co-authors Tunch Ilkin and Damian Williams were among nearly 60 local authors invited to sign their works at the Heinz History Center's 12th annual "Books in the Burgh" event.
This year’s event will feature a special appearance by Augusten Burroughs, the Pittsburgh-born author of the best-selling memoir Running with Scissors, which spent more than three years atop the New York Times Best Seller list and was eventually made into a movie starring Annette Bening and Alec Baldwin.
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Heinz History Center CEO Andy Masich welcomes Tunch to the annual holiday season event |
Tunch and former Steelers linebacker Andy Russell hold up copies of their books |
“Books in the ‘Burgh” also helped launch the History Center’s newest publication, The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience, a 240-page book featuring essays written by national experts on African American life during the Civil War with topics ranging from the Fugitive Slave Law to Camp William Penn to the service of the United States Colored Troops. The book was developed in partnership with Pennsylvania Civil War 150, the statewide initiative to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and complements the History Center’s new Pennsylvania’s Civil War exhibition.
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More than 50 local authors displayed and signed their works |
The full list of other authors included Norman Baker, Roland Barksdale-Hall, Samuel W. Black, John Brewer, Joe Bullick, Augusten Burroughs, Brian Butko, Jill Ciciarelli, Lawrence Connolly, Paola Corso, Dave Crawley, Gregory Curtis, C. William Davis, Luis Fabregas, Denise Fantazier, Chuck Finder, Sharon Flake, Chris Fletcher, Arthur B. Fox, Frank Garland, Melanie Gutowski, Quentin L. Hartwig, Yona Harvey, Kathy Hunt, Dalel Khalil, Laurie Koozer, Michael Kraus, Lois Lamanna, Lillie Leonardi, Anne Madarasz, Dennis Marsili, Mark A. Miner, David Neville, Jim O'Brien, Carol Peterson, Tom Powers, Johno Prascak, Charles Prine, Dan Radakovich, Amanda Reynolds, Kathy Rooney, Dan Rooney, Miriam Rubin, Andy Russell, Marcia Russotto, Kathryn Schanck, Eleanor Schano, Lindsey Smith, Mary Jo Sonntag, Ernest D. Spisak, Sarah Sudar, Mary Sutton, John Tiech, Ken Turner, Cassandra Vivian, George Von Benko, Emily Weaver, Dr. Cyril Wecht, Tom White and Jim Wudarczyk.
Photos by Emmanuel Panagiotakis