Meteorologist Al Roker of NBC’s Today Show will join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathon Eig , New York Times best-selling author Nic Stone , and other notable writers at the 43rd Kentucky Book Festival .
The annual festival, held this year on Nov. 2 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers , 161 Lexington Green Circle in Lexington, will also feature Brother Paul Quenon , a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, activist Yolanda Renee King, Jack “Goose” Givens , University of Kentucky basketball legend and Edward Lee, Louisville chef and winner of the James Beard Award. Kentucky First Lady Britainy Beshear will serve as honorary chair of the event.
The annual celebration of reading, writing and books is a program of Kentucky Humanities and the largest book festival in the Commonwealth.
“We are excited to present an amazing line-up of authors who will engage, inspire and educate everyone who comes to the festival, and we are so pleased that the First Lady will be participating in so many ways,” Katerina Stoykova, Kentucky Book Festival director, said. “The Kentucky Book Festival is a magical place where every lover of literature can find a book to enjoy and shake the hand that wrote it. Attendees can browse the author’s gallery and meet their favorite writer, go to a main stage event to hear an author discuss his or her book, attend a writing workshop, start their holiday shopping early and visit the children’s tent with fun activities for the next generation of readers.”