8th Annual Tucson Festival of Books will be at the University of Arizona mall (west of Campbell Ave. on E. University Blvd.) on March 12 and 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. both days.
Info: Â www.tucsonfestivalofbooks.com.
James M. Scott
Tim Kerr (photo credit)
“James Scott is an award-winning writer and former reporter and investigative journalist with the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier.
Scott is a recipient of the McClatchy Company President’s Award and was named the 2003 Journalist of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association. Wofford College honored Scott as its 2005 Young Alumnus of the Year. From 2006-2007 he was a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University.
In additon to “Target Tokyo,” Scott is the author of “The Attack on the Liberty,” which won the prestigious 2010 Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature, and “The War Below,” both with Simon & Schuster. He is at work on a fourth book on the February 1945 Battle for Manila.
Scott lives with his wife and two children in Mount Pleasant, S.C.”
