The Kentucky Book Festival hosted at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington

Saturday, November 6, 2021 - 10:00am - 6:00pm EST

LOCATION: Joseph-Beth Lexington

The 2021 Kentucky Book Festival will take place on November 6, starting at 10:00 am EST at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY. 

The Kentucky Book Festival is a daylong, in-person celebration at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY on Saturday, November 6, featuring 140 authors. Festivities begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time and will include great authors like Gwenda Bond, H.W. Brands, W. Bruce Cameron, Elin Hildebrand, Silas House, Matthew Pearl, Sam Quinones, Crystal Wilkinson, and more!

Special Events Include:

10:30 a.m. - Amy McGrath, author of Honor Bound: An American Story of Dreams and Service, in conversation with Kathy Stearman, author of It’s Not About the Gun: Lessons from My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent

11:30 a.m. - Brian Kilmeade discusses The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul with Dr. Vanessa M. Holden of the University of Kentucky

12:30 p.m. - H. W. Brands, author of Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution and Peter S. Canellos, author of The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero, in conversation with Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

2:30 p.m. - Crystal Wilkinson, author of Perfect Black and Frank X Walker, author of Black Box, in conversation with Jeremy Paden, author of world as sacred burning heart

3:30 p.m. - Silas House, author of Clay’s Quilt, in conversation with Jayne Moore Waldrop, author of Drowned Town, and Marianne Worthington, author of The Girl Singer: Poems

4:30 p.m. - Kimmery Martin, author of Doctors and Friends, presents “An Insider’s Look at the Practice of Medicine: Writing a Pandemic Novel BEFORE a Pandemic”

5:30 p.m. - Elin Hilderbrand, author of Golden Girl, in conversation with Dianna Rostad, author of You Belong Here Now

Visit www.kybookfestival.org for full schedule.