Tim Brady, Dave Hage, and Josephine Marcotty

Saturday, November 8, 2025
11:30am, Riverview Room (located upstairs from the Book Fair)

“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare tells us—thankfully, we have authors like these to pen thoughtful books about things that happened. 

About the Authors

Tim Brady is an award-winning writer whose works include Twelve Desperate Miles and A Death in San Pietro. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has written a number of PBS documentaries and helped develop the series Liberty! The American Revolution, winner of the Peabody Award. He lives in St. Paul.

Dave Hage oversaw environmental and health reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for a dozen years, editing projects that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Edward R. Murrow Award, among other honors. His previous books include No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor’s War at Hormel and Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work. A Minneapolis native, he lives in St. Paul with his wife.

Josephine Marcotty is an award-winning environmental journalist who has spent her life in the Midwest. She was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she covered complex, science-based topics. Sea of Grass is a natural expansion of her reporting on the vanishing prairie and the consequences of intensive agriculture. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband.