Stars of Stage and Screen Join Festival Line-Up

Bruce George, activist, author and co-founder of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and Alison Larkin, Anglo-American comedienne and author of the novel The English American, have recently signed on for the upcoming Fall for the Book Festival.


In addition to winning a Peabody Award for his work with Def Poetry Jam, Bruce George’s own writings have been published in magazines and journals including Essence, Emerge and Class Magazine, among others, and he co-edited the recently released book, The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates. He is one of the founders of an anti-violence/poverty initiative entitled “The American Experiment Peace Project,” seeking to uplift people in struggle.

Springing from her internationally acclaimed one woman show, in her bestselling novel The English American, writer/comedienne Alison Larkin draws further from her experiences as an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents — and a new homeland — in the United States (and weaves them into a work of fiction). Larkin trained as a classical actress and playwright in London before moving to America and becoming a stand-up comic. She has appeared on Broadway, at American's top comedy clubs, and on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Comic Relief and Providence. For more info visit www.alisonlarkin.net.