Marshall

The Kentucky Author Forum
welcomes
Katharine Graham
Tuesday, March 25, 1997

Floyd Theater, W308
Student Activities Center
10 a.m.: Open question and answer session
This event is free and open to university faculty, staff,
and students. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Kentucky Center for the Arts
5 p.m.: Book sale and wine and cheese reception
6 p.m.: Author forum and question and answer session
7 p.m.: Book signing by Graham

Admission: $5 for U of L faculty, staff, and students. Tickets must be purchased in person at the Kentucky Center for the Arts box office or the drive-through ticket counter at the entrance between Fifth and Main Streets. A U of L identification must be presented.

Admission for the general public: $15. Call the Kentucky Center for the Arts at (502) 584-7777 or (800) 775-7777, or visit Hawley-Cooke Booksellers at any of their three locations.

Katharine Graham, former publisher and current executive committee chair of The Washington Post, will be the next guest of the Kentucky Author Forum on Tuesday, March 25. Graham will discuss her autobiography, Personal History, the poignant and compelling story of her rise to command of the largest Fortune 500 company run by a woman. During the course of her tenure, Graham became known as a First Amendment icon and a symbol of journalistic integrity. It was under her leadership that the Post stood up to Richard Nixon by exposing the Watergate scandal.

Graham will be interviewed by Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent. Well known to many audiences as the NBC White House correspondent and as a political analyst on the Today show, Mitchell played a major role in reporting on the savings and loan bailout, the Keating Five, and the Clarence Thomas hearings.

A dinner honoring Graham and Mitchell, hosted by University of Louisville President Dr. John W. Shumaker and Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bingham, Jr., follows the book signing. Tickets are available for an additional $85 ($60 tax deductible). A package price of $100 includes all events plus dinner and can be purchased only through the Kentucky Center ticket office.

The Kentucky Author Forum is a non-profit cultural project in cooperation with the Kentucky Center for the Arts and Hawley-Cooke Booksellers. The series features major authors in an interview setting. Past forums have featured Bill Bradley, Sister Helen Prejean, Neil Simon, and John Updike. Dr. Susan Love, author of the best-selling Breast Book, will be a guest of the Kentucky Author Forum on October 6, 1997.