This Saturday, April 27th be sure to head over to the Knicely Conference Center in Bowling Green, KY for the 21st annual Southern Kentucky Book Festival to meet local authors, purchase signed copies, and promote the local literacy movement of the region.
Over 150 authors will be featured at the festival, including several from University Press of Kentucky. Featured UPK titles include:
Richard Taylor’s Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape, Silas House’s Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal, Jennifer S. Kelly’s Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown, Milton C. Toby’s Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing’s Most Famous Cold Case, Ingo Trauschweizer’s Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam, Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter’s A New History of Kentucky, Michael T. Benson and Hal R. Boyd’s College for the Commonwealth: A Case for Higher Education in American Democracy, John I. Gilderbloom’s Chromatic Homes: The Joy of Color in Historic Places, Maggie Green’s The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook, Dan and Judy Dourson’s Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater Red River Basin, James Duane Bolin’s Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, Jonathan S. Cullick’s Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men: A Reader’s Companion, and Lamar Herrin’s Fishing the Jumps: A Novel.
Free admission and no registration required. Come down to check out these great titles and to support your favorite local authors!