The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum, a non-profit, nationally-recognized literary event, is dedicated to offering renowned authors and interviewers to the Louisville community. Their candid, uninterrupted hour of conversation is taped by Kentucky's public television for national distribution.

Founded by Mary Moss Greenebaum in 1996 with the support of the University of Louisville Foundation, the Kentucky Author Forum has grown in scope over more than a decade and has welcomed two additional sponsors: Brown-Forman and The Humana Foundation.

Four times each year, on a set created by BITTNERS Designing for the Way you Live, a kind of magic happens in Louisville's Kentucky Center when distinguished author guests are paired with interviewers steeped in the subject at hand, for a live, always lively, interview. These not-to-be-missed conversations happen only once. We hope you'll join us.

In 1996, founder Mary Moss Greenebaum received the support of the University of Louisville and Kentucky Author Forum presented its initial interview with Senator Bill Bradley and Newsweek's Eleanor Clift.

Each season Kentucky Author Forum features celebrated authors who have played critical roles in their areas of prominence: art, music, history, politics, and a wide variety of cultural affairs.
The Forum highlight is a publicly attended evening interview, with a carefully chosen, highly qualified interviewer, and an audience of 600 at The Kentucky Center.

The hour-long conversation is taped by Kentucky Educational Television (KET). KET is the largest PBS member broadcaster in the country covering all of Kentucky and parts of seven surrounding states. The tape airs first regionally, Then, it is distributed to affiliates of the Public Broadcasting System for optional airing nationwide.

Each author is provided with a full day of media exposure and outreach. This includes time on campus with students and professors at the University of Louisville, as well as multiple opportunities with radio and television, and The Courier-Journal.

Louisville's public library branches, accommodating those unable to attend the evening interview, make arrangements to air tapes of the Kentucky Author Forum events, free of charge, following the live event.