What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? In 2023 I was pleased to publish two books. The Ancient Tradition of Angels (Bear & Co), which is a departure from, or an expansion to, my work on ancient Egypt. The other new book is the newly reprinted and expanded Awakening […]
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What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The main book I’ll be promoting will be The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight, which I edited. I will also have copies of two collections of my poems: Advice to a Young Poet and Folly. Whom do you […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Dear Vampire: Vampires are real, right? No? You’re about to enter the world of vampires—REAL vampires. These animals are out for blo-o-o-o-od. Your blo-o-o-o-od. Watch out! They’re everywhere. Don’t open this book if you’re a scaredy-cat. A wise, witty, and […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? My book is Daughters of Muscadine, a loosely linked collection of stories set in rural Georgia. Each story stands on its own, but when read together they form a book of stories that deal with themes related to loneliness, estrangement, race, […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? The Kudzu Queen In 1941, James T. Cullowee, the Kudzu King, arrives in Cooper County, NC to spread the gospel of kudzu—claiming it will improve the soil, feed cattle, even cure headaches. When Mr. Cullowee organizes a kudzu festival, complete with a […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? I See Lincoln’s Underpants features many notable people from the past, and the times their underwear made history along the way. Winner of a 2023 IPPY Gold Medal, this book is a both educational and delightful for middle grade readers and […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors to the table will find my most recent work: Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, published last year by Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the first full-dress biography in the last sixty years dedicated to […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Just. Like. You. is a joyful celebration of individuality and diversity. Follow a class of students throughout the day from morning to night and discover what makes each of them unique: from different talents, abilities, and body sizes, to ethnicities, religions, gender […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, you’ll see three sci-fi books for young adults: UNREGISTERED, UNAFRAID, and UNDONE. Together, they’re a series called Children of the Uprising, a dystopian story of a little band of outsiders who take on an oppressive and controlling government. You’ll also see […]
We appreciate our volunteers and want to learn more about them. We asked Beth Barton to answer several questions. 1. Please tell us something about yourself. This is my second year volunteering at the KBF. I am a Kentuckian by birth (Glasgow), but I have lived in North Carolina […]
YOU are fighting for freedom from enslavement for yourself and others during the mid-1800s. Will you escape to freedom? And will you help others escape as part of the Underground Railroad’s network of freedom fighters? Step back in time to face the challenges and decisions that real […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Visitors will find a newly published biography of Kentucky activist, politician, and attorney Gatewood Galbraith, Gatewood: Kentucky’s Uncommon Man. Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Gatewood a cultural fixture: […]