John Armistead

John Armistead talks with students at Edgewood Elementary School, Homewood, Ala.

John Armistead with students at Lake Stevens Middle School, Miami, Fla. Armistead was invited by the Miami Book Fair International to visit schools that had read "The Return of Gabriel."

John Armistead and eighth grades students at Anwatin Middle School, Minneapolis, Minn. The students had read Armistead's book "The Return of Gabriel."

John Armistead and sixth grade students at Sheridan School, Minneapolis, discuss developing characters for a new story.

Events

January 11-14, 2010, Public Schools, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

February 13-14, 2010, Art Students League, New York City

March 18-21, 2010, Arts and Crafts Show, Fairhope, Alabama

March 30-31, 2010, Itawamba Community College, Fulton and Tupelo campuses, Mississippi

April 24, 2010, Double Decker Arts Festival, Oxford, Mississippi

May 8-9, 2010, Gum Tree Art Festival, Tupelo, Mississippi

October 2, 2010, Bluff Park Art Show, Birmingham, Alabama

October 7-10, 1010, Pink Palace Crafts Fair, Memphis, Tennessee

December 13-14, 2010, Public Schools, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

February 11, 2011, Edgewood Elementary School, Homewood, Alabama

March 18-20, 2011, Arts & Crafts Festival, Fairhope, Alabama

April 30, 2011, Double Decker Festival, Oxford, Mississippi

May 7-8, 2011, Gum Tree Festival, Tupelo, Mississippi

May 14-15, 2011, Arts Alive!, Florence, Alabama

June 22, 2011, Young Writers Workshop, The University of Mississippi

October 6-9, 23011, Pink Palace Crafts Fair, Memphis, Tennessee

Selected Works

Fiction
A Legacy of Vengeance
A Sheriff Grover Bramlett mystery
A Homecoming for Murder
A Sheriff Grover Bramlett mystery
Cruel as the Grave
A Sheriff Bramlett mystery
Young adult fiction
The $66 Summer
A thirteen-year-old boy in Alabama visits his grandmother and learns about the violence of racism.
The Return of Gabriel
A thirteen-year-old boy is caught up in the violence of Mississippi in the summer of 1964.