Meet
KPL welcomes leading and up-and-coming authors and illustrators for discussions, lectures and book signings. Enjoy noted children's authors and illustrators, poets, memoir writers, novelists, local and regional historical writers, award-winning teen authors, and more.
Listen & Learn
Hear authors describe their research and writing process, what inspires them, who influences them, and how they develop their personal style. Enjoy their stories and gain valuable insight into what it takes to write compelling prose.
November 10, 7 pm, Central Library
Award-winning poets Jennifer and Chad Sweeney read from their new books: How to Live on Bread and Music (Jennifer K. Sweeney) and Arranging the Blaze (Chad Sweeney).
Books for sale and signing.
November 11, 7 pm, Central Library
Getting high is the only way to go for photographer Marge Beaver who has been taking aerial shots of Michigan, Chicago and other lovely places for some 25 years. Her works include Above West Michigan and Above the North.
Books for sale and signing.
November 12, 6:30 pm, Central Library
Teens! This is your chance to meet best-selling authors Lisa McMann and James A. Owen, the featured speakers at the 32nd annual Mary Calletto Rife Youth Literature Seminar.
Books for sale and signing.
February 3, 2010, 7 pm, Central Library
Booklist described Kristina Riggle’s delightful debut, Real Life and Liars, as “a moving and accomplished first novel about a dysfunctional family coming to terms with change.”
Books for sale and signing.
February 18, 2010, 7 pm, Central Library
As current artist-in-residence, acclaimed author Wesley Stace curates the Words & Music Festival at at Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.
Books for sale and signing.