Behind the Words: Ghostwriting & Collaborating  with Lisa Dickey, Jeff Biggers and Marcia Thornton Jones

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Lisa Dickey

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

A longtime book collaborator, Lisa Dickey has helped write more than 20 nonfiction books, including 12 New York Times best sellers, and is the author of Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia. Written with George Stephanopoulos, The Situation Room provides the definitive, past-the-security-clearance look at the White House Situation Room and the people — the famous and those you’ve never heard of — who have made history within its walls.

Jeff Biggers

Disturbing the Bones

With work appearing in in The New York Times, The Guardian, and on NPR, Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award-winning author of many works of investigative journalism, history, and theatre, and winner of the Delta Prize for Literature and the Brower Award for Environmental Reporting. Written with the acclaimed director of The Fugitive, Andrew Davis, Disturbing the Bones is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis.

Marcia Thornton Jones

Dragons Don’t Cook Pizzas

A former columnist for Writer’s Digest Magazine, Marcia Thornton Jones is the author or co-author of 138 books for children with sales totaling more than 45 million copies worldwide including the bestselling The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series. In the fourth title in the popular Bailey School Kid Scholastic Graphix Novel Series, Dragons Don’t Cook Pizza, the Bailey School Kids visit Jewel’s Pizza Castle for a party only to see smoke and hear roars coming from the kitchen and wonder what’s going on.