Forty-First Annual Kentucky Book Festival &Raquo; Kentucky Book Festival Logo

 It will be a star-studded gathering of authors at the 41st annual Kentucky Book Festival on Saturday. Around 150 authors, including yours truly, will take part in the day-long event at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington. It runs from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.  This will be my 11th appearance as an author, beginning in 1985 when it was called the Kentucky Book Fair and held in Frankfort. Newspaper journalist Carl West founded the fair in 1981. I also served on the executive board for six years, until it moved to Lexington in 2017 under the auspices of the Kentucky Humanities Council.  This... Continue Reading

October 27th, 2022