Author Profiles
Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.
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Conrade C. Hinds
Conrade C. Hinds was born in Nashville and graduated from Ball State University, where he studied architecture and industrial technology. He has lived in Ohio for forty years. A registered architect and a retired projects manager with the City of Columbus Department of Public Utilities, he is also a retired adjunct faculty member in the Engineering Technology Department at Columbus State Community College. His latest books is History of Buckeye Inventions, and he has published three other books: The Great Columbus Experiment of 1908, Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913, and Lost Circuses of Ohio.
Robin W. Holland
Robin Holland is a co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project. Robin is a retired public school teacher, having worked with the Columbus City Schools for thirty-five years. Most of her career she was involved in the area of language arts, developing and conducting in-service training with reading and writing initiatives implemented in Columbus Schools and serving on district writing teams to create both reading and writing curriculum guides. She held a number of positions at the building level, including: classroom teacher, gifted educator, Title I Reading Teacher, Intervention Specialist, and Literacy Coach. She also filled several district level positions, including resource teacher for both the reading and Title I departments, and Consulting Teacher with the Peer Assistance and Review Program. Robin has a passion for reading and writing and continues to enjoy instilling that passion in others. She attended The Ohio State University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in education and a Master’s degree in Developmental Reading. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband of twenty-five years.
Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Author Kerrie Hollihan writes award-winning nonfiction for kids and teens. Her new book is BONES UNEARTHED!, third in the Creepy and True series for Abrams Books for Young Readers. Following GHOSTS UNVEILED! The first, MUMMIES EXPOSED!, garnered four four-star reviews.
Kerrie’s books have been honored as “notables” by the Children’s Book Council/National Council for the Social Studies and more. She’s especially thrilled that Mummies! is accessible for vision impaired readers through the Library of Congress. Her very first book, ISAAC NEWTON & PHYSICS FOR KIDS, has been printed in six languages.
Kerrie belongs to the highly regarded nonfiction author group iNK Think Tank and its interactive partner, Authors on Call – http://www.inkthinktank.org. Catch her three-minute talks about lots of things at iNK’s Nonfiction Minute, https://www.nonfictionminute.org.
Kerrie enjoys meeting young readers during school visits both in person and on the web. She offers kid-friendly activities with other nonfiction authors at Hands-on-Books, http://hands-on-books.blogspot.com/.
Kerrie also reaches out to inquisitive older adults–historical societies, book groups, and more–with programs speaking to their life experience. Get in touch on her contact page: https://kerriehollihan.com/contact/
Edward P. Horvath
Colonel Edward P. Horvath, Jr. is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps, having served three deployments in Iraq. He has been a physician for 50 years, specializing in internal medicine, occupational medicine and pulmonary disease. During his last deployment in 2011, Col. Horvath was Task Force Deputy Commander and Chief of Clinical Services for a combat support hospital near Tikrit, Iraq and was responsible for the medical care of over 20,000 U.S. soldiers in the northern half of Iraq. Earlier at the same base, he staffed the emergency room and outpatient clinic, caring for U.S. soldiers, Iraqi civilians and enemy combatants.
Horvath first went to war in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005 at age 59, after a 26-year break in military service, having served as a U.S. Navy officer earlier in his career. He returned to the military, in part, inspired by his two sons, who both joined the Navy following 9/11. During his first deployment, he served as Deputy Commander at a hospital set within a sprawling detention complex later recognized as the birthplace of ISIS. Colonel Horvath was also stationed at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison hospital and in Baghdad on special assignment.
For his actions in Iraq, Colonel Horvath was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and later received one of the nation’s highest military honors, the Legion of Merit. He currently serves as a primary care physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland.
Previously, Horvath held positions at top medical centers including the Cleveland Clinic. He also served as Medical Director for major corporations such as BP America and General Electric. In addition, he has held academic appointments at several universities and is a recognized research scientist and educator. He has authored more than 30 publications on topics including toxicology, environmental lung disease and military medicine. He was also contributing author and co-editor of a major textbook, “Occupational Medicine.”
After graduating from Harvey High School in 1964, Colonel Horvath earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Western Reserve University, He also holds a medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Minnesota. Colonel Horvath received the American Red Cross Hero Award in 2013 for “extraordinary courage in saving lives.” He has been married to his wife, Joy, for 47 years, and they have three children. Their daughter is a physician and their two sons are U.S. Navy officers. https://goodmedicinehardtimes.com/
Erin Hosier
Erin Hosier is the author of the memoir Don’t Let Me Down (Atria, 2019), and the coauthor of Hit So Hard by Patty Schemel (Da Capo, 2017). She has been a literary agent since 2001 (currently with Dunow Carlson & Lerner), and was an original co-host of the Literary Death Match. As an agent, she primarily works with authors of nonfiction and has a special interest in popular culture, music biography, humor, women’s history (and untold stories of all kinds). In general, novels with happy endings put her in a bad mood. She lives in Brooklyn.
Jay Hoster
Jay Hoster has been collecting material relating to Wall Street and New York’s financial district for more than twenty years. He recently retired as co-owner of Books on High, Inc., in Columbus. He has a B.A. from Haverford College and an M.A. in Journalism from Ohio State University and was the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship that enabled him to do graduate work at Columbia University. Hoster is a past president of the Columbus Historical Society and a founding member of the Aldus Society. His Ohio connections run deep. His great-great-grandfather made the decision to live in Columbus after experiencing the local celebrations on July 4, 1833. All of the historic images in his book Early Wall Street: 1830-1940 are from his collection.
Michelle Houts
Michelle Houts is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, ranging from colorful, engaging picture books to adventurous middle-grade novels. Her newest book, HOPEFULLY THE SCARECROW (Flamingo Philomel, 2023) celebrates the power of hope and friendship when a scarecrow finds he has little control over his circumstances. Houts writes from a restored 1894 one-room schoolhouse. She is the creator of the 52 Letter Challenge. When she’s not writing, she is editing or encouraging young readers and writers through school visits and workshops.
Arnett Howard
A professional musician (trumpet, keyboards and voice) since 1967, Arnett Howard entered the world of history in January, 1980. His Musician’s Scrapbook: The Illustrated History of Columbus’ Black Entertainers became the foundation for Listen For The Jazz: Keynotes In Columbus History (1990), a collaboration with Candy Watkins. In 2008 Arcadia Press published Columbus: The Musical Crossroads, a joint project featuring David Meyers, Candy Watkins, Jim Loeffler and Arnett Howard. In 2012, The History Press published Ohio Jazz: The History of Jazz in the Buckeye State, co-authored by the same group. He also worked on a 2013 exhibit of the history of Columbus music for the Columbus Historical Society displayed the Center of Science and Industry (COSI).
Tim Hudak
Timothy Hudak is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History. He has been studying the history of football at the high school and collegiate levels for more than 25 years. All the Way to #1 is Mr. Hudak’s eighth book and the first ever written to cover the history of high school football national champions. In addition, he has written almost four dozen articles and book reviews on high school and college athletics and occasionally teaches a course about the history of college football at local community colleges. Mr. Hudak has appeared on Cleveland area radio and television programs discussing high school football and has been used as a resource by local newspaper writers and the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Tim Hudak and his wife, Patti Graziano, live in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rick Huhn
Rick Huhn is the author of the recently released The Chalmers Race (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His previous books include The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great (University of Missouri Press, 2004) and Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (McFarland, 2008). The latter was a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award, presented by SABR to the best baseball book on the Deadball Era published the previous year.…
Read MoreRick Huhn is the author of the recently released The Chalmers Race (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His previous books include The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great (University of Missouri Press, 2004) and Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography (McFarland, 2008). The latter was a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award, presented by SABR to the best baseball book on the Deadball Era published the previous year. In addition, Huhn has authored articles on baseball history for various publications, including the Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime (SABR) and Gateway Magazine (Missouri Historical Society). He has also discussed various baseball topics during numerous radio and television interviews. The retired attorney and his wife, Marcia, reside in Westerville, Ohio.