Check out the Google calendar for events throughout the year for celebrating the five authors.
Events are also listed below.
Events Begin in May 2017 and run through May 2018
The Cedar Falls Authors Festival kicks off in early May, celebrating Robert James Waller’s work on Thursday, May 4, 2017.
Here is our currently confirmed list of further Authors Festival programs and their locales:
2017
Thursday, May 4: Eight Songs by Robert Waller: An Appreciation of his Music & Poetry at the Hearst Center for the Arts, 7 p.m.
Energetic works in vivid watercolor by the late Cedar Falls artist Marjorie Nuhn are displayed. The Hearst Center’s collection of work by this independent woman artist was begun in 1989 by her brother Ferner Nuhn who gave 43 works to the newly formed James & Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts. The Hearsts themselves were collectors of Ms. Nuhn’s paintings and left the watercolor, “Sartori House,” to the citizens of Cedar Falls when they made their generous bequest of land, property, and funds in 1983.
Hearst Center Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday & Friday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 1-4 p.m.
In July, we celebrate Nancy Price, (1925- ), who has given us 13 novels—five set in Cedar Falls, including “Sleeping with the Enemy” and “An Accomplished Woman.” The first was a 1987 Literary Guild selection and became the famous 1991 film starring Julia Roberts. Price also has given us a collection of poems and six short stories and she illustrates her books.
Friday, July 7 – September 20, 2017: Exhibition of “Original Book Illustrations by Nancy Price,” Hearst Center for the Arts.
Hearst Center Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Wednesday & Friday 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 1:00-4:00 p.m.
The Tour includes five homes:
August 2017
Three of our authors have birthdays in August: Robert Waller (born August 1), Ruth Suckow (born August 6), and James Hearst (born August 8). Join us at the Cedar Falls Library, large meeting room on the second floor, for an all day Readathon and Treats! We will also celebrate other authors from Cedar Falls who were born in August.
With Cedar Falls’ six nationally-known, best-selling authors celebrated in the first six months of the Festival year, the Festival’s major offering for the new year is its 12-program Cedar Falls History Writers Series, which highlights the fact that the city abounds with fine history writers.
Nine of the programs will occur on Sunday afternoons at the Cedar Falls Public Library. Additional programs will be presented at the UNI Library and at the New Aldaya Lifescapes Revue Performing Arts Center. Each program will be followed by a reception and book signing. The programs follow (roughly) a historical chronology to allow Cedar Falls residents to see the sequential unfolding of Iowa and city history:
January 2018
May 2018
May: CF Authors Festival Wrap-Up Celebration
The Ruth Suckow Memorial Association (RSMA) will return to the Cedar Falls Public Library for our Annual Meeting. Then, at 1 pm we will welcome the public to a brief address by Kenneth Lyftogt.
Saturday, June 9, 1 p.m., Cedar Falls Public Library (Second Floor Meeting Room), “Going to the Woods: Ruth Suckow and the Early 20th Century Midwest,” Kenneth Lyftogt
Last Updated April 13, 2018