In this panel discussion between journalists-turned-authors, Emily Bingham, Kristina Gaddy, Jyoti Thottam, & Amy Argetsinger chat about their latest books.
Thanks to our Main Stage sponsor, the University of Kentucky!
Author + Speaker Lineup
Emily Bingham is the author of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song and Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham and Mordecai: An Early American Family. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kristina R. Gaddy is an award-winning writer who believes in the power of narrative nonfiction to bring stories from the past to life in order to inform the world we live in today. Her debut nonfiction book Flowers in the Gutter (Dutton 2020), tells the true story of the teenage Edelweiss Pirates who fought the Nazis. Through narratives based on memoirs, oral history interviews, and Nazi documents, she immerses the reader in the world of these teenagers as they resist the Third Reich.
Amy Argetsinger is an editor for the Style section of The Washington Post, where she has overseen media and political coverage and longform features. A native of Alexandria, Va. and graduate of the University of Virginia, she started her journalism career in Illinois, then joined The Post in 1995, where she covered the Maryland suburbs, higher education and the West Coast before becoming author of the paper’s signature gossip column, The Reliable Source.
Jyoti Thottam is a senior Opinion editor at The New York Times. Prior to joining the Times, she was a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. From 2008 to 2012, she was Time’s South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi, where she wrote numerous cover stories, including award-winning stories about the Ganges River and the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
