The Byrne-Reed House on the day of the event.

Delicious donated and homemade baked goods are an annual tradition.

Humanities Texas tote bags and mugs were some of the benefits available to guests who joined the Friends of Humanities Texas.

Authors visiting with each other at the book fair. From left to right: Joe Nick Patoski, Jeffrey Kerr, Stephen Harrigan, and Steven L. Davis.

A guest browses books donated by the Texas Book Festival to the Holiday Book Fair.

Robert C. Vaughan, president of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, browses books.

Authors Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis discuss the book they co-authored, Dallas 1963.

Humanities Texas board member Chase Untermeyer signs a copy of his book, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration.

Authors Ricardo C. Ainslie (far left) and Nick Kotz (far right) visit with guests.

Humanities Texas board chair Michael L. Klein (second from left) visits with authors. From left to right: Stephen Harrigan, Nan Cuba, and Jeffrey Kerr.

Don Tate (right) discusses his illustrations with guests.

Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis discuss their book with Frances Leonard, former director of the Texas Humanities Resource Center.

Don Tate signs a copy of Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite, which he illustrated.

Staff member Susanna Hill enjoys the book fair with her husband Hutch and daughter Beatrix.

Jesús F. de la Teja (right), Humanities Texas board member and author of Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas History, talks with a guest.

Authors enjoying the book fair. From left to right: Diana López, Nan Cuba, Don Tate, and Sarah Cortez.

Imani Davis, daughter of Humanities Texas staff member Brook Davis, reads Don Tate's It Jes' Happened.

From left to right: John Kerr, Humanities Texas board member and author of Hurricane Hole; Andrea White, author of Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083, The Very Long Life of Alice's Playhouse; A Survivor's Story, and Windows on the World; and Hector Ruiz, author of Slingshot: AMD's Fight to Free an Industry from the Ruthless Grip of Intel, enjoy the book fair.

John Kerr signs a copy of his book for a guest.

Staff member Lindsey Waldenberg (center) reviews Ricardo C. Ainslie's The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War. In the background, from left to right: Lois Kim, director of the Texas Book Festival, Michael L. Gillette, executive director of Humanities Texas, and Chase Untermeyer, Humanities Texas board member and author of When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration