The nonprofit Kentucky Author Forum is sponsored by the University of Louisville as part of its Challenge for Excellence, an eight-year campaign that has pushed the university toward preeminence among the nation's metropolitan research universities. Through the challenge, U of L has advanced the intellectual, social and economic development of our community and the Commonwealth. Each season the Forum features distinguished authors who have played critical roles in their areas of prominence.

Founded by Mary Moss Greenebaum in 1996 with the support of the University of Louisville, the Kentucky Author Forum grew in scope over a decade, and two additional sponsors joined hands with the University: Brown-Forman and The Humana Foundation.

The event has flourished because of the seamless workings of its family of participants, each bringing a unique and separate professionalism which has resulted in national recognition.

The highlight of the Forum day is the evening interview, with a carefully chosen and highly qualified interviewer, before an audience of 600+ at The Kentucky Center. The hour-long conversation is taped by Kentucky Educational Television (KET), the largest PBS member broadcaster in the country, servicing all of Kentucky and parts of seven surrounding states. The tape airs first regionally, and then is distributed to affiliates of the Public Broadcasting System for optional airing nationwide, making this the only Louisville cultural event regularly distributed to PBS communities across the country.

Each featured author shares a full day with the Louisville community, including:

• visit to the University of Louisville with students and faculty
• on-air interview with public radio, WFPL
• meeting with The Courier-Journal Editorial Board
• evening interview at The Kentucky Center, taped by KET, on stage set by Bittners
• book signing with Carmichael's Bookstore
• dinner hosted by President of the University, Dr. James Ramsey, in honor of author and interviewer

The Kentucky Author Forum series is produced by Mary Moss Greenebaum, with associate producer Melissa Bernstrom, and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with Brown–Forman and The Humana Foundation. Additional donors include: Bittners, Carmichael's Bookstore, The Courier–Journal, KET, Office Furniture USA, WFPL and The Kentucky Center.

Tickets for Kentucky Author Forum events are available through The Kentucky Center.

Visit convenient Box Office or Drive-Through on Main Street 502-584-7777 OR 800-775-7777 OR www.kentuckycenter.org

Contact Kentucky Author Forum at 502-589-2884 or kyforum@aol.com.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Stephen G. Breyer, associate justice of the Supreme Court, took his seat in 1994. His book Active Liberty is based on the Tanner lectures on Human Values that Justice Breyer delivered at Harvard University in November 2004, and, in it, Justice Breyer argues that the Constitution's lasting brilliance is that its principles may adapt to cope with current situations. Breyer will now be interviewed by Pete Williams, NBC News Justice correspondent. Due to a scheduling difficulty, Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and Senior Analyst for CNN, is not able to join the Kentucky Author Forum on May 6. Please note that the evening forum is sold out. Read more

Other Forum News Many of you joined us for the recent University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forums. In case you missed an interview— or would like to hear and see more — we invite you to visit these sites: KET offers streaming video of a selection of past Kentucky Author Forum interviews at http://www.ket.org/arts/authorforum.htm Most Kentucky Author Forum guests are also interviewed on WFPL's State of Affairs®. To listen to an archived interview go to www.wfpl.org/cms/?page_id=20. DVDs of past interviews are available by contacting KET at 1-800-945-9167.

Past Features:

Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking (Vintage Books)
Interviewed by Stephen Bright,
Yale Law, Southern Center for Human Rights

Neil Simon, Rewrites (Simon & Schuster)
Interviewed by Jon Jory,
Actors Theatre of Louisville

John Updike, Golf Dreams (Knopf Publishing)
Interviewed by Robert Siegel,
Host, National Public Radio's
All Things Considered

Katharine Graham, Personal History (Pulitzer) (Knopf Publishing)
Interviewed by Andrea Mitchell,
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent,
NBC News

Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster)
Interviewed by Carl Sferrazza Anthony,
Historian and National Expert on First Ladies and their political roles

Dr. Susan Love, Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (Random House)
Interviewed by Anne Taylor Fleming,
PBS Commentator, Jim Lehrer News Hour

Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money (Simon & Schuster)
Interviewed by Marshall Loeb,
Editor, Columbia Journalism Review
Former Managing Editor, Fortune

Carl Lewis, One More Victory Lap: My Personal Diary of an Olympic Year.
Interviewed by Frank Deford,
Newsweek columnist and National Public Radio commentator

David Halberstam, (Pulitzer Winner), The Children (Random House)
Interviewed by Roger Wilkins, (Pulitzer Winner)
Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University

A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (Pulitzer) (Putnam Publishing)
Interviewed by Jonathan Yardley,
Pulitzer Book Critic, The Washington Post

Patricia Schroeder, Twenty-Four Years in the House and the Place Is Still a Mess (Andrews McMeel)
Interviewed by Eleanor Clift,
Contributing Editor, Newsweek Magazine

Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone (Broadway Books/BDD)
Interviewed by Susan Stamberg,
Special Correspondent, National Public Radio

John Glenn, John Glenn: A Memoir (Bantam)
Interviewed by Lou Dobbs,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of space.com

Dr. Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (Warner)
Interviewed by Richard Wrangham,
Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany (Broadway Books)
Interviewed by Rebecca Bain,
Formerly News Director and presently Host of "The Fine Print" Nashville's NPR Station WPLN

Elie Wiesel, And The Sea Is Never Full, Memoirs, 1969 - (Knopf Publishing)
Interviewed by Gustav Niebuhr, New York Times

Ted Koppel, Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public (Random House)
interviewed by Robert Siegel, National Public Radio

E. L. Doctorow, City of God. (Plume)
interviewed by Christopher Lydon, the host of "The Connection" on WBUR Boston, heard locally on WFPL 89.3 FM (Public Radio Partnership).

David Kessler, A Question of Intent. (Public Affairs)
interviewed by legal analyst Roger Cossack, co-host of CNN's daily award-winning "Burden of Proof."

James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Riverhead/Putnam).
interviewed by Christopher Lydon, former host of "The Connection" on WBUR Boston.

General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.), Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat. (Public Affairs).
interviewed by Joel Klein, political analyst for The New Yorker.

David Hockney, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters (Penguin Putnam). Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for The New York Times.

Vernon Jordan, Vernon Can Read. Interviewed by Ronald Brownstein, Senior Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C.

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life. Interviewed by Robert Siegel, host of NPR's "All Things Considered."

Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand ....A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy(Random House)
Interviewed by David Halberstam, journalist and best-selling author.

Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Viking).

Arthur Levitt, Take on the Street (Pantheon).
Interviewed by Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek columnist.

Sandra Day O'Connor, The Majesty of the Law (Random).

Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary (Miramax).
Interviewed by Richard Roth, United Nations senior correspondent for CNN.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., American Behind the Color Line (Warner).
Interviewed by Karen Grigsby Bates, correspondent for NPR's "Day to Day."

Robert Kagan, Paradise and Power (Vintage).
Interviewed by Neal Conan, host of "Talk of the Nation" on NPR.

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake.
Interviewed by Ira Flatow, host of "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" on NPR.

Karen Armstrong, Buddha (Penguin).
Interviewed by Robert Siegel, host of "All Things Considered" on NPR.

Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Sorty of the Fight for Middle East Peace (Farrar, Straus ad Giroux).
Interviewed by Jacki Lyden, correspondent for NPR.

Ari Fleischer, Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House.
Interviewed by Bill Plante, CBS News White House Correspondent

Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (Random House).
Interviewed by Karl Fleming, journalist and legendary civil rights reporter.

R.W. Apple, Jr., Apple's America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux North Point Press)
Interviewed by Tom Brokaw, anchor of NBC Nightly News

John McCain, Character is Destiny (Random House)
Interviewed by Robert Siegel, host of NPR's "All Things Considered."

Gene Sperling, The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity (Simon & Schuster)
Interviewed by John Ydstie, economics correspondent and host on National Public Radio's News Programs

Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Interviewed by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

George Soros, The Age of Fallibility
Interviewed by John D. Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Interviewed by CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen

Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (Times Books, Henry Holt and Company)
Interviewed by Wendell Berry, honored writer, cultural and economic critic

James A. Baker III, Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics
Interviewed by John King, CNN's chief national correspondent

Tom Brokaw, Boom! Aftershocks of the Sixties
Interviewed by Rick Atkinson, a staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post

Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Interviewed by Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor, Vanity Fair

Greg Mortensen, Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Interviewed by Jacki Lyden, NPR Biography Senior Correspondent and alternate host

The innaugural program of the University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum took place on May 13, 1996 and featured Senator Bill Bradley interviewed by Eleanor Clift, Contributing Editor of Newsweek. (tape not available)

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