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Daniel Okrent, the first public editor of The New York Times, former editor at Time, Inc., and author of
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, was the featured author guest of the Kentucky Author Forum on May 10, 2010. Okrent was interviewed by John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.
Daniel Okrent is considered one of the most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction today. His Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. He has written extensively on baseball, and is the inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball, the best-known form of fantasy baseball.
His newest book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, is a narrative history of that most peculiar episode in American history, sweeping across several decades and most of the country, including Kentucky. Last Call is overflowing with portraits of the period’s notable personalities, including Sam Bronfman, H. L. Mencken, Pierre du Pont and Billy Sunday, among many others (courtesy KAF).
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The Kentucky Author Forum on April 13, 2010, featured Richard Ellis, one of America’s leading marine conservationists, generally recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subjects in the
world and author of On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear. Ellis was interviewed by Jeff Corwin, host of Animal Planet’s “Jeff Corwin Experience” and “Corwin’s Quest”, conservationist, biologist and author of 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth’s Most Endangered Species.
Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo-goers everywhere, polar bears are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. Today, as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the peril that faces all life on Earth as a result of harmful human practices. In On Thin Ice the acclaimed science writer Richard Ellis offers an impassioned and moving statement on behalf of polar bears—and all they stand for.
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Michael Sandel, renowned Harvard professor and author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, 
was the featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on Dec. 1, 2009. Sandel was interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John S. Carroll.
Sandel’s book, Justice, offers readers an exhilarating journey of thinking their way through the hard moral challenges we confront as citizens, inviting readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways.
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In the first Kentucky Author Forum of the 2009-10 season, Dr. Harold Varmus was interviewed by Governor Howard Dean in the Bomhard Theater on Nov. 12, 2009. Dr. Varmus holds a Nobel Laureate in Medicine, and
is the former director of the National Institutes of Health, current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and author of The Art and Politics of Science. Governor Dean is the author of Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform.
The Art and Politics of Science is an elegant blend of science and biography, which also delves into current health issues of global importance. Within its pages, Dr. Varmus offers a glimpse into the world of high-stakes, big-budget science, from the dual perspectives of a man well acquainted with its everyday applications and a scientist whose own research and professional commitments have helped to shape our scientific age (courtesy Kentucky Author Forum).
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