Past Authors

Praising Colson Whitehead, John Updike wrote: “Whitehead’s writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.”

Sebastian Junger, author of War and The Perfect Storm, investigates how we overcome trauma and seek something bigger than ourselves.

Joe Nocera, long-time Business and Opinion writer for the New York Times has just added a regular Times column about the business of sports.

E.J. Dionne is the author of Why The Right Went Wrong: Conservatism – from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond.

The beloved NPR host speaks about the death (from Parkinson’s) of her husband of 54 years, and her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.

John Irving brought to us Avenue of Mysteries, the 14th novel of his prolific career.

Sister Helen Prejean C.S.J. is the author behind the book that inspired the movie Dead Man Walking.

Senator Bill Bradley was the inaugural author guest at Kentucky Author Forum, with his book Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir (Knopf).

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