Over the past eight years, the AViD series has welcomed a diverse group of authors to Des Moines to be part of this project. Below is a list of the authors and their genres featured in the series since its inception in 2001.

Donald Harstad- Iowa Mysteries
Barbara Robinette Moss - Biographical
Bill Bryson - Humor, Travel, Non-Fiction

Eleanora Tate - Young Adult Fiction
Tinker Marks - Mystery (Irene Powell and Mark Montgomery)
Donald Kaul - Journalist, Non-fiction
Lisa Scottoline - Legal Thrillers and Mystery
Stephen Bloom - Non-fiction
Tom Bodett - Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Tom Hallman - Journalist, Non-fiction
Max Allan Collins - Crime thrillers
Chris Bohjalian - Journalist, Fiction
J.A. Jance - Mystery Series
Jacquelyn Mitchard - Adult Fiction
Nancy Carlson - Children’s Fiction

Dow Mossman/Mark Moskowitz - Biographical/Film-maker
Juan Williams - Journalist, Historical, Non-fiction
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Romance
Rick Bragg - Journalist, Biographical, Non-fiction
Phillip Margolin - Legal Thrillers
Ruth Irene Garrett - Biographical, Non-fiction

Don Harstad
Cokie Roberts
Peter Hedges
Dayton Duncan
Elizabeth Berg
Luis J. Rodriguez

Mark Doty
Molly Peacock
James Tate
Maureen Corrigan
Barbara Robinette Moss
Janet Evanovich
Michael Gartner
Diane Mott Davidson
David Laskin

Nikki Giovanni
Jim Autry
Greg Mortenson
Erik Larson
Mary Doria Russell
Masha Hamilton
Bill Geist
Shirley Damsgaard
Chip Kidd

Laura Lippman
Mildred Kalish
George Guidall
Alexander McCall Smith
Joanne Harris
Paul Shirley

Steven Biel
Jane Hamilton
Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Lawrence Block
Elizabeth Berg
David Ebershoff
Omar Tyree
Lisa See
William Taubman
Carrie Brown