Every year, the Wisconsin Book Festival’s Fall Celebration brings authors with state ties to Madison. Of the 69 writers slated to appear Oct. 17-20 at 57 free and open-to-the public events, no fewer than 27 of them live or grew up in Wisconsin, attended UW-Madison, or are somehow otherwise connected to the Badger State. They include novelists, journalists, scholars and poets, and their work spans suspense, fantasy, memoir, local history, environmental literature and more.