More than two hundred authors, poets, playwrights, illustrators, storytellers, and other presenters have appeared at the Alabama Book Festival since its beginning in 2006. They include:

 

Chantel Acevedo

Dan Albergotti

Bruce Alford

Daniel Anderson

Jean Anderson

Tina McElroy Ansa

Jay Asher

Susan Youngblood Ashmore

Ace Atkins

Leah Rawls Atkins

Howard Bahr

Leslie Bailey

Marlin Barton

Hester Bass

Jack Bass

Alex Beard

Philip Beidler

Stephen Berry

Daniel Black

Melissa  Blackburn

Elise Blackwell

Emma Bolden

Clyde Bolton

James O. Born

Natalie Pope Boyce

Aleta Boudreaux

Delores Boyd

Joey Brackner

Jane  Bradley
Rick  Bragg
Sonhy Brewer

Will Brigham

Barbara Broach

Joel Brouwer

Nickole Brown

Jim Buford
Robert Olen Butler

Peter Campion

Guy and Candie Carawan

Sheryll Cashin

Janet Chambers

John Chambers

Natalie  Chanin

J.L. Chestnut

Mark  Childress

Georgine Clarke

Pearl Cleage

Loretta Cobb

William  Cobb
Hunter  Cole
Ruth Cook

Priscilla Hancock Cooper

Tony  Crunk

Kirk Curnutt

Robert Dalby

Ann Dalton

DeLana R. A. Dameron

Brent Davis

Sharon L. Davis

Russell Davis

Russell David

James Dean

Melissa Delbridge

Miles DeMott 
Pat Cunningham Devoto

Elizabeth Dewberry

Foster Dickson

Penn Dilworth

Kimberly Dozier

Kathleen Driskell

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Sara Dubose

Gerald Duff

Elizabeth Dulemba

Ted  Dunagan

Nathalie Dupree

Jennifer Echols

Ron  Ellis
Loretta Ellsworth

Robert Ely

Dan  Farmer
Abe Fawal

Ellen Feldman

Susannah Felts

Margaret Fenton

Linda Fisher
Wayne Flynt

Chris Forham

Joe Formichella

Stephen Fox

Jeff Frederick

Frye Gaillard

Kate Gale

Danny Gamble

A. M. Garner

Charles Ghigna

Faye Gibbons

Virginia Gilbert

Susan Gregg Gilmore

Peter Golenbock

Richard  Goodman
Thom Gossom

Matthew Graham

Juliana Gray

Robert Gray

John Green

Wayne  Greenhaw
Anton Haardt

Carolyn Haines

Wade Hall

Lauretta Hannon

James Hansen

Janice Harrington

Martha Hawkins

Rachel Hawkins

Charlotte Hays

David  Haynes
Russell Helms

Paul Hemphill

Aileen Kilgore Henderson

Patti Callahan Henry

Homer Hickam

Peter Hicks

Robert Hicks

Goeff Hill

Sean Hill

Roy  Hoffman
Ron Hogan

Richard Horan
Jennifer Horne

Randall  Horton
Ravi Howard

Andrew Hudgins

Suzanne Hudson

Peter Huggins

Dolores Hydock

Harvey H. Jackson III

Joshilyn Jackson

John Sims Jeter

Rheta Grimsley Johnson

Richie  Jean Jackson
Les Johnson

Wanda Johnson

Christy  Jordan 
Gloria Joseph

Mary Kaiser

Douglas Kearney

Tom Kimmel

Nanci Kincaid

Cassandra King

Willie James King

Michael  Knight

Nana Lampton

Thomas Larson

Irene Latham

Hank Lazer

Eric  Litwin 
Charlie Lucas

Kerry Madden

David Magee

Michael Martone

Cynthia Mask

Sebastian Matthews

Erin McGraw

Margaret McMullen

Martin Melosi

Mindy Merrell

Gayden Metcalfe

Tanya Michna

Shelly Fraser Mickle

Linda Kenney Miller

April Moon

Billy Moore

Mary Carol Moran

Jim Murphy

Nall

Sena Jeter Naslund

Mary Ann Neeley

R.A. Nelson

Sally Nemeth

Don Noble

James L. Noles Sr.

Kevin O'Keefe

Julia Oliver

Robert Olmstead

Mary Pope Osborn

Jennifer Paddock

Carol Padgett

Ashley Paige

Greg Pape

Robert Parsons

Kathy L. Patrick

Gov. John Patterson

P.T. Paul
Molly Peacock

Karren Pell

Tito Perdue

Doug Phillips

Gin Phillips

John Hayes Pritchard Jr.

Quilters of Gee's Bend

R. B. Quinn

Davis Raines

Wendy Reed

Roger  Reid
Ron Rickki

Art Roche
Ginger Rue

Pat Boyd Rumore

Sonia  Sanchez

Dori Sanders

Mary Saums

Julie Schoerke

Solomon Seay

Philip Shirley

Elizabeth Findley Shore

Carroll Dale Short

Janet  Simpson
Louie Skipper

Karin Slaughter

John Sledge

Marc  Smirnoff
Carl T. Smith

Laurel Snyder

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Erica Spindler
Patricia Sprinkle
Chandra  Sparks Taylor
Warren St. John

Mary Stanton

Frank Stitt

Amy Stolls

John Tayman

Jeanie Thompson

Kathleen Thompson

Melinda Rainey Thompson

Sidney Thompson

Keith  Thomson
Warren Trest

Natasha Tretheway

Joseph Trimble

Kali Van Baale

Doug Van Gundy

Brad Vice

Michael Vigilant

E. E. Wade
Frank X Walker

Sue Brannan Walker

Daniel Wallace

Luke Wallin

Carole Boston Weatherford

Dean Faulkner Wells
Barbara Wiedemann

Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Deborah Wiles

Charles Reagan Wilson

Crystal Wilkinson

Kathryn Tucker Windham

J. Wes Yoder

Jake  Adam York

Joe York

Beth Maynor Young

Billie Jean Young

Karen Spears Zacharias

Bob Zellner

Carol Prejean Zippert