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Kentucky Author Forum Presents

Several times each year, the Kentucky Author Forum brings distinguished writers of new books to the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville for a stimulating evening of conversation and discussion. The interview segments, featuring carefully chosen and highly qualified interviewers and taped before a live audience, air on KET as Kentucky Author Forum Presents. Many are also distributed to public television stations nationwide under the title A Conversation with ....

Selected programs from Kentucky Author Forum Presents are available for online viewing. Many are also available on DVD or videotape from KET; call (800) 945-9167 or e-mail for information.

For more information on past and upcoming programs, visit the Kentucky Author Forum web site maintained by the University of Louisville.

Online Video

Click on a name to watch the video. Each hour-long program is available in Windows Media® or RealVideo® format.

• E.L. Doctorow
  Novelist who has mixed fictional characters with real-life events in such books as Ragtime, World’s Fair, and The March. Interviewer: Christopher Lydon (2001)
• Azar Nafisi
  A former teacher of English literature at the University of Tehran, witness to the Iranian revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power, and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Interviewer: civil rights reporter Karl Fleming (2005)
• Gene Sperling
  President Clinton’s national economic adviser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a frequent columnist and commentator on economic issues, and author of The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity. Interviewer: John Ydstie, National Public Radio (2006)
• Sue Monk Kidd
  A best-selling novelist, author of The Mermaid Chair. Interviewer: Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, professor of clinical psychiatry (2006)
• George Soros
  Holocaust survivor, international financier and philanthropist, and author of The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. Interviewer: John D. Podesta, Center for American Progress (2006)
• Lawrence Wright
  Screenwriter, New Yorker staff writer, and author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Interviewer: Peter Bergen, journalist and terrorism analyst (2006)
• Bill McKibben
  Environmental journalist and author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities. Interviewer: Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet (2007)
• Tom Brokaw
  Former NBC News anchor and author of Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ’60s and Today. Interviewer: Washington Post senior editor Rick Atkinson (2007)
• Michael Pollan
  New York Times Magazine contributor, journalism teacher, and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Interviewer: Michael Shnayerson, author of Coal River (2008)
• Greg Mortenson
  Literacy advocate, Central Asia Institute and Pennies for Peace founder, and author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission To Promote Peace ... One School at a Time. Interviewer: Jacki Lyden, National Public Radio (2008)

The Kentucky Author Forum is sponsored by the University of Louisville as part of its Challenge for Excellence, with support from Brown-Forman and the Humana Foundation. The series founder and producer is Mary Moss Greenebaum. The programs are produced for television by KET.