University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum

The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum is a non-profit, nationally-recognized literary event. It is dedicated to showcasing renowned authors and interviewers in the Louisville community. WFPL offers audio of Kentucky Author Forum events.

KAF 11/09/10 – Andrew Ross Sorkin

by Brad Yost November 10, 2010

The Kentucky Author Forum on Nov. 9, 2010 featured Andrew  Ross  Sorkin, financial columnist for The New York Times and author of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves, a real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in American financial [...]

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KAF 10/11/10 – Arianna Huffington

by Brad Yost October 22, 2010

A Kentucky Author Forum on October 11 featured Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, co-host of public radio’s popular “Left, Right & Center”, and author of Third World America. She was interviewed at the Kentucky Author Forum by Howard Fineman. In Third World America she examines how America’s [...]

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KAF 09/21/10 – David Plouffe

by Brad Yost September 23, 2010

At the first Kentucky Author Forum of the 2010-11 season, David Plouffe, political strategist and author of The Audacity to Win, was interviewed by Richard Wolffe, award-winning journalist, political analyst for MSNBC, and author of Renegade: The Making of a President.  Plouffe served as campaign manager for President Obama’s primary and general election victories in [...]

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KAF 05/10/10 – Daniel Okrent

by Brad Yost May 13, 2010

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 [...]

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KAF 04/13/10 – Richard Ellis

by Brad Yost April 15, 2010

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 [...]

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KAF 12/01/09 – Dr. Michael Sandel

by Brad Yost December 4, 2009

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 [...]

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KAF 11/12/09 – Dr. Harold Varmus

by Brad Yost November 25, 2009

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 [...]

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