Vermont is home to a wealth of authors, and Phoenix Books specializes in their work.  Our many autographed locally-authored books make great gifts.  If you'd like to meet a Vermont author or get a book with a personalized inscription, join us for one of our upcoming events.

Below, we've listed some of the many authors, illustrators, and personalities whose work we regularly carry.  Author bios and links are in progress, so check back soon!  To find out more about the Vermont gift and culinary items we carry, click here.

If you're wondering if a specific title is in stock, give us a call at 872.2111, and we'll check the shelves for you.  If we don't have it in, we can always special order the book; it will most likely arrive in just a few days.

• Philip Ades - Ades, a professor at the University of Vermont's College of Medicine and director of cardiac rehabilitation and preventive cardiology at Fletcher Allen Health Care, is a leader in cardiac research.  Titles include:  EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook.
  
• Jan Albers - Jan Albers received her doctorate in history from Yale University. She has taught at Yale, the University of Sussex, and Middlebury and St. Michael's Colleges in Vermont.  Titles include:  Hands on the Land:  A History of the Vermont Landscape.
  
• Laurie Alberts - Laurie attended the Iowa Writers Workshop and now teaches fiction and creative nonfiction in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. She lives on a small farm with her husband and daughter and their Chevaux Canadiens (French Canadian horses).  Titles Include:  Lost Daughters.
  
• William M. Alexander - Titles include:  Forgotten Tales of Vermont.
  
• Richard Allen - TItles include:  Images of America:  Essex and Essex Junction.
  
• Julia Alvarez - Raised in the Dominican Republic, Alvarez now lives on a farm in the Champlain Valley and is tenured at Middlebury College.  She has also co-founded a sustainable farm-literacy center in the Dominican Republic, called Alta Gracia.  Titles include:  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Saving the World, Secret Footprints, Woman I Kept to Myself, and more.
  
• Mary Azarian - A woodcut artist and a Caldecott medalist, Azarian moved to a small hill farm in northern Vermont in 1963.  Her press is based in Plainfield.  Titles include:  Four Seasons of Mary Azarian.
• Philip Baruth - Philip Baruth is a novelist and an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio. He teaches at the University of Vermont.  TItles include:  X President, The Dream of the White Village, and Vermont Air:  Best of Vermont Public Radio Commentaries.
  
• Alison Bechdel - The artist behind the lauded comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for publications like Ms., Slate, The Advocate, and many others.  She lives in Burlington.  Titles include:  Essential Dykes to Watch Our For.
  
• Jon St. Bellamy- Titles include:  Vintage Vermont Villanies:  True Tales of Murder & Mystery from the 19th and 20th Centuries.
  
• Larry Benoit - A native of Vermont, Benoit has been hunting deer since he was seven. He is frequently referred to as the best whitetail hunter in the United States, and has appeared in hunting videos like Tracking Big Bucks with the Benoits. He is the author of How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life.
• Stephen Bissette - Bissette has been a professional cartoonist, illustrator and artist for over thirty years and is a teacher at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction. He is best known for his award-winning collaboration with writer Alan Moore on DC Comics’ Saga of the Swamp Thing.  He collaborated with Joseph Citro on The Vermont Monster Guide and The Vermont Ghost Guide.
  
• Natalie S. Bober - Bober is an award-winning biographer and historian with a strong background in the humanities and eighteenth century British and American History.
• Chris Bohjalian - Chris Bohjalian is the author of eleven novels, including the New York Times bestsellers, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.
• Paul Boisvert
  
• Dave Bonta
• Barbara Bretton
• Don Bredes -  Bredes was born in New York City and and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of several novels, and his writing has appeared in the Paris Review and The New York Times Magazine, among others. He lives with his wife and daughter in Wheelock, Vermont.
  
• Tim Brookes
• Nancy Marie Brown
• Louella Bryant
• David Y. Budbill
• Mark Bushnell
• Ken Byerly - Born on a farm in North Carolina, Ken Byerly came of age in Wyoming and Montana. He attended the University of Montana on an athletic scholarship, played football and basketball and graduated in journalism.  He has written for the Washington Post and Newsday.  He and his wife Priscilla now live in Vermont. Ken recently completed a multi-year hike of the 2,200-mile Applachian trail.
• Colin Calloway
• Legrand Cannon
• Paul A. Carnahan
• Kate Carter
• Mary Carty - With an educational background in psychology and counseling, she frequently writes on marriage, parenting, health, communication, and self-esteem. This author of PMAT:  The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test lives with her husband of twenty-four years in Vermont and Florida.
• Joseph Citro - Citro has written numerous novels, collections of arcane folklore, and ghost guides chronicling the dark side of Vermont and New England. His classic, Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls, and Unsolved Mysteries, is the most comprehensive collection of offbeat Vermont lore ever assembled.
• DeMar Clarence
• Bettie Clark
• William Cleary
• Deborah Clifford
• Howard Coffin
• Ben Cohen
• Joni B. Cole
• Joseph D. Conwill
• Cora Cheney
• Stephen Cramer
• Jay Craven
  
• Allen Freeman Davis
• Kenneth C. Davis
• Henri DeMarne
• Steve Delaney
• Rusty DeWees - Rusty DeWees grew up in Stowe. He has worked as a paper boy, gas jockey, landscaper, logger, concrete worker, school bus driver, basketball coach, and musician. He works in radio and TV, and has appeared in more than twenty-five motion pictures. He created and self-produces a one-man comedy show, The Logger. Rusty DeWees lives in Elmore, Vermont.
• Mary Ann DiSpirito
• Ellen Doon
• Bruce N. Duthu
• Marc Estrin - Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of several novels, including Golem Song, The Lamentations of Julius Marantz, The Annotated Nose, and The Good Doctor Guillotin.
• Linda Faillace
• Vincent E. Feeney - Vincent E. Feeney was Adjunct Professor of History at UVM from 1977-2006. Since 2003 he has been a Lecturer for the VT Humanities Council. He is a member of the VT Historical Society and the Center for Research on VT. Feeney is the author of Finnigans, Slaters, and Stonepeggers:  A History of the Irish in Vermont. He lives with his wife in Marshfield.
• Sabra Field
• David Hackett Fischer
• Charles Fish
• Harriet F. Fisher
• Bryan Frank
• Castle Freeman, Jr.
• Jon Furman
• Lawrence Gale
• Jared Gange
• Kevin Gardner
• Ginger Gellman - Gellman is the author of Historic Photos of Vermont and holds a Master’s degree in history from the University of Vermont. She works at the Burnham Memorial Library in Colchester, and sings with Social Band.
• Aram Goudsouzian
• Chris Graff
  
• Green Mountain Club
• Green Mountain Spinnery - The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker/owner cooperative, was founded with a distinctly Vermont mission: to produce the highest quality all-natural yarns, to help sustain regional sheep farming, and to develop environmentally sound ways to process natural fibers.
• Jim Halfpenny
• Bernd Heinrich
• W. C. Heinz
• Henry Homeyer
• David Huddle
• Helen Husher
• P. C. Jarvis
• Anne M. Johnson
  
• Charles Johnson
• Robert C. Jones
• James Kavanagh
• Garret Keizer
• King Arthur Flour
• Galway Kinnell
• Natelie Kinsey-Warnock
• Leland Kinsey
• James Kochalka
• Gary Kowalski
• Arnie Kozak, Ph.D.  - Essex's own Arnie Kozak is the author of Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants and the founder of Exquisite Mind, a consulting service for individuals (in the form of mindfulness-based psychotherapy), as well as for the community, health care professionals, and corporations.
• Ron Krupp
• Madeleine Kunin
• Sharon Lamb - Lamb, author of Packaging Boyhood and Packaging Girlhood, has taught at Saint Michael's College and continues her therapy practice in Shelburne.  She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at UMass Boston and commutes back to Vermont!
• Leslie Land
• Willem Lang
• Jeffrey Lent
• Judith Levine
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Reeve Lindbergh
• Betty Ann Lockhart - Lockhart's latest book is Maple Sugarin' in Vermont: A Sweet History.  She is a founding member of the Vermont Maple History Committee of the Vermont Maple Industry Council and a member of the Center for Research on Vermont at UVM, the Vermont Maple Foundation, and the Vermont Sugarmakers Association; she is also on the Board of Trustees for the Vermont Maple Festival.
• Daniel Lusk
• Barbara Kaiser Malloy
• Mary Martin
• Jesse Mattson
• Archer Mayor - The author of the Joe Gunther mystery series, Mayor is also a death investigator for Vermont’s Chief Medical Examiner, a deputy for the Windham County Sheriff’s Department, and has 25 years experience as a volunteer firefighter and EMT.
• Dennis McCullough
• Bill McKibben
• Tracey Medeiros
• Greg Melville
• Betsy Melvin
• Elliott Merrick
• Ann McKinstry Micou
• Wolfgang Meider
• Thomas Middleton - An Assistant Fire Marshall and Public Information Officer with the Burlington Fire Department, Middleton served in Iraq from 2004 to 2005.  He is the author of Saber's Edge:  A Combat Medic in Ramadi, Iraq. He lives with his family in Essex, Vermont.
• Peter Miller
• Nora Mitchell
• Howard Frank Mosher
• Ted Murin
• Helen Nearing
• New England Culinary Institute
• Patrick O'Connor
• Ellen Ogden
• Kay Bozich Owens
• Grace Paley
• Jay Parini
• Melissa Pasanen
• Katherine Paterson
• Angela Patten
•  Linda Peavy
• Louise Penny - Penny is an award-winning journalist who worked for many years for the CBC. Her bestselling first mystery, Still Life, was the winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; and her second, A Fatal Grace, won the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel. She lives in a small village south of Montréal where she writes, skis, and volunteers.
• Jernigan Pontiac
• Peter Post
  
• Lisa Reimann
  
• George Robinson
• Barbara Rogers
• Billy Romp
• Christopher Rondina
• Nasrin Safai - Known internationally as a channel of the Ascended Masters and Angelic Beings of Light, Safai is the author of six books. She did her Doctoral Studies in the role of women in the development of the third world, and presently holds the post of Professor of Esoteric Spirituality at Universal Seminary.
• Inge Schaefer
• Lorilee Schoenbeck
• Bill Schubart - Bill Schubart has lived with his family in Vermont since 1947. He writes about Vermont in fiction, humor and opinion pieces.  We love his VPR commentary on Bookstores and Community.
  
• Jamie Shaw
  
• Peter Shea
• Lexi Shear
• Jan Siegrist
• Tom Simon
  
• Tom Slayton
• Dan Snow
• Charles A. Stansfield, Jr.
• Marilyn Stout
• Sara Strohmeyer
• Christine Sullivan
• Henry Tewksbury
• John D. Thomas
• Mari Tomasi
• Michael J. Tougias
• Mellon Tytell
• Linda Urban
• Bradford B. Van Diver
• Mike Winslow - A staff scientist for the Lake Champlain Committee, Winslow collaborated with artist Libby Davidson on the book Lake Champlain:  A Natural History.
  

• Julia Alvarez
• Jim Arnosky
• Frank Asch
• Mary Azarian
• Harry Bliss - This beloved New Yorker cartoonist, cover artist, and bestselling children's author lives in northern Vermont with his son and their puppy, Penny.  His most recent book for young readers - and his first comic book - is Luke on the Loose.
  
• Elizabeth Bluemle
• Mark Breen
• Marge Bruchac
• David Budbill
• Cora Cheney
  
• Eileen Christelow
• Katie Clark
• Sharon Creech
• Doreen Cronin
• Michael J. Daley
• Jeff Danziger
  
• Sharon Darrow
• Anna Dewdney
• Amy Ehrlich
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Patricia Gauch
• Gail Gibbons
• Peter Gould
• Jessie Haas
• Robie H. Harris
• James Hayford
• B. G. Hennessy
• Karen Hesse
• Ruth Horowitz
• Stephen Huneck
• Thacher Hurd
• Edgar N. Jackson
• Beth Kanell
• Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
• James Kochalka
• Willem Lang
• Reeve Lindbergh
• Jacqeline Martin
• David Martin
• Alison McGhee
• Michael Medearis
  
• Kate Messner - Kate Messner grew up in Medina, a small town in Western New York. She worked as a television news producer and reporter in Burlington, VT before going back to school to get a teaching degree. For the past twelve years, Kate has been a teacher of middle school English. Her newest book is The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
  
• Richard Michelson
• Ellen Miles
• An Na
  
• Janice Ovecka
• Katherine Paterson
• Tracey Campbell Pearson - Tracey Campbell Pearson is the beloved author and illustrator of many children’s books, including The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Booklist Editors’ Choice Top of the List–Youth Picture Book winner and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. She lives in Jericho Center, Vermont.
• Emily Raabe
• Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
• Rebecca Rupp
• Leda Schubert
• Phoebe Stone
• Tanya Lee Stone
• Michael Tougias
• Tasha Tudor
• Pat A. Wakefield
• Nancy Means Wright- Wright is an author of fourteen books for adults and children; her newest title, a historical mystery novel, will be released in 2010.  One of her kids' mysteries, The Pea Soup Poisonings, won the Agatha Award for Best '06 Children's/Young Adult's Novel; the other, The Great Circus Train Robbery, has been turned into a play for the Very Merry Theatre's summer '09 season.  She is based in Cornwall, Vermont.