The Kentucky Author Forum welcomes Patricia Scott Schroeder January 12, 1999 Louisville, Kentucky

Former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), is the next guest of the Kentucky Author Forum on January 12, 1999 in Louisville, Kentucky. The AAP is the national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry. Schroeder will discuss her latest book, 24 Years of House Work...And the Place is Still A Mess.

Schroeder left Congress undefeated in 1996 after serving in the House of Representatives for 24 years. For the first half of 1997, she was a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton Unniversity, before assuming her post at AAP on June 1 of that year. She is currently leading New Century/New Solutions, an out-of-the-box think tank, for the Institute for Civil Society in Newton, Massachusetts.

Schroeder attended Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500 men. She earned her J.D. in 1964 and moved to Denver, Colorado with her husband James, who encouraged her to challenge an incumbent Republican for Colorado's First Congressional District seat in 1972. The mother of two young children at her election, Schroeder went on to serve 12 terms in the House of Representatives.

During her tenure in the House, she became the Dean of Congressional Women, co-chaired the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues for ten years, and served on the House Judiciary Committee as well as several other committees. She was instrumental in bringing the Family and Medical Leave Act to fruition in 1993, a fitting legislative achievement for her lifetime of work on behalf of women's and family issues.

Patricia Schroeder will be interviewed by Eleanor Clift, contributing editor to Newsweek and CNN. Mrs. Schroeder is also author of another book: Champion of the Great American Family (Random House, 1989).

Event and Ticket Information

Tuesday, January 12, 1999

University of Louisville
Ekstrom Library Auditorium, Belknap Campus

10 a.m. -- Patricia Schroeder will speak to UofL students, faculty and staff. Seats available first-come, first-served. Event is free.

Kentucky Center for the Arts
5 Riverfront Plaza, Downtown Louisville

5 p.m. Book Sale -- Wine & Cheese Reception, provided by Brown-Forman.
6 p.m. Live Interview -- Audience Q&A
7 p.m. Book signing on stage

A $15 ticket includes the above three events. Discounted tickets of $5 each for students, faculty and staff at the KCA box office--UofL photo id is required.

A $100 package ticket includes the above events plus dinner with Patricia Schroeder and Eleanor Clift, hosted by University President Dr. John Shumaker and his wife, Lucy, will follow the book signing. ($60 tax-deductible with proceeds to nonprofit Kentucky Author Forum.)

Tickets available at Hawley-Cooke Booksellers 502-893-0133 or the Kentucky Center for the Arts at 502-584-7777 or 1-800-775-7777. Special offer on Kentucky Author Forum tickets: Only $1 handling charge.

The Louisville Free Public Library, St. Mathews/Eline Branch, 3940 Grandview Avenue, will broadcast the event at 7 p.m. Tickets are free and may be picked up in advance at the library branch. The event will be recorded by WFPL 89.3 FM and the Kentucky Education Network (KET) for future broadcast.

The Kentucky Author Forum series is produced by Mary Moss Greenebaum and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in cooperation with Hawley-Cooke Booksellers, Kentucky Center for the Arts, and Kentucky Educational Television.