Literary stars align for BookExpo

NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and novelists John Irving and Umberto Eco will be among the featured speakers at this year’s national publishing convention, BookExpo America, to be held in New York in June.

Goodwin will be promoting her upcoming biography of Abraham Lincoln, her first work since she acknowledged in 2002 that parts of her book “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys” were taken from another author without proper attribution.

Irving and Eco each have works of fiction coming out.

Others scheduled for Book- Expo include such best-selling authors as Barbara Ehrenreich, Simon Winchester and Daniel Handler (otherwise known as children’s writer “Lemony Snicket”).