2018 TLA Conference

We are very excited that local author and librarian Alice Faye Duncan will be our speaker.   Alice Faye has been writing since her days in library school and this August she will debut her new title, Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop which explores Martin Luther King Jr.’s last stand for justice during the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968.   She is also the author of Honey Baby Sugar Child (Simon & Schuster), Miss Viola and Uncle Ed Lee ( Atheneum) and coming out this fall will be 12 Days of Christmas in Tennessee illustrated by Nashville artist Mary Uhles.

Awards Presented: Daniel Taylor Memorial Award, Louise Meredith School Library Media Award, James E. Ward Instruction Award