In what year was the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival, which has featured the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the book "Angela's Ashes" and other top authors and thinkers, first held?
2007
Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival
The Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival takes place the last weekend of September in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
 Held annually since 2007, it attracts many of the world's top authors and thinkers, including Pulitzer Prize winners.
 Presenters have included Frank McCourt, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Greg Mortenson, Khaled Hosseini, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Elizabeth Edwards, Seymour Hersh, Michael Pollan, Douglas Brinkley, Elizabeth Gilbert, Carl Hiaasen, and P. J. O'Rourke.
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer.
 He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book "Angela's Ashes", a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
Elizabeth Bishop House
The Elizabeth Bishop House, also known as the Bulmer House, is an historic single-family house that today is used as an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia.
 The house is associated with Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Bishop who in her youth lived in the house each summer with her maternal grandparents, William Brown Bulmer and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Bulmer.
 Bishop based many of her stories (such as "In the Village") and poems (such as "Filling Station") on aspects of Great Village and Nova Scotia.
 Although the Bulmers bought the property in 1874, it is not known when it was built.
 On May 21, 1997, the Bulmer House was recognized as a Nova Scotia Provincially Recognized Heritage Site for its connection to Elizabeth Bishop and her writings as well as for its architectural significance; it is a good example of a typical 1 ⁄ -storey Classical Revival dwelling dating from between 1800 and 1850, a type common to rural Nova Scotia. The Way to Rainy Mountain
The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) is a book by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday.
 It is about the journey of Momaday's Kiowa ancestors from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the United States Cavalry at Fort Sill, and subsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma. Play Their Hearts Out
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, by Pulitzer Prize winning author George Dohrmann, is an award-winning exposé of the underbelly of grassroots youth basketball in the AAU.
 The author follows the lives of the coach and players of an elite team, documenting the exploitation and manipulation of the children and their families by coaches seeking the best players, and the influence of shoe and sports gear companies seeking to use the sport to promote their products.
 Dohrmann is a senior writer with Sports Illustrated. Rodrigo Corral
Rodrigo Corral is an American graphic artist.
 He is currently the creative director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 He has designed covers for the Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Díaz and bestselling authors Chuck Palahniuk and John Green, among many others.
 He has designed the "New York Times" bestselling books "Decoded" by Jay-Z, "Classy" by Derek Blasberg, and "Influence" by Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.
 He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he also has taught. Morrisonville, Virginia
Morrisonville is an unincorporated community in northern Loudoun County, Virginia.
 It is located on Morrisonville Road (Virginia Secondary Route 693).
 It is notable as being the birthplace of the Pulitzer Prize winning author Russell Baker. The Alleys of Eden
The Alleys of Eden is the first published novel of Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler, first published in 1981. Lew Archer
Lew Archer is a fictional character created by Ross Macdonald.
 Archer is a private detective working in Southern California.
 Between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, the character appeared in 18 novels and a handful of shorter works as well as several film and television adaptations.
 Macdonald's Archer novels have been praised for building on the foundations of hardboiled fiction by introducing more literary themes and psychological depth to the genre.
 Critic John Leonard declared that Macdonald had surpassed the limits of crime fiction to become "a major American novelist" while Pulitzer Prize winning author Eudora Welty was a fan of the series and carried on a lengthy correspondence with Macdonald.
 The editors of "Thrilling Detective" wrote: "The greatest P.I. series ever written?
 Probably." Unaccustomed Earth
Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
 This is her second collection of stories, the first being the Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies".
 As with much of Lahiri's work, "Unaccustomed Earth" considers the lives of Bengali American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment.