Author Visits

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Local Author Fair
Thu, Oct 29 | 4-7pm | Marvin Auditorium

Meet more than 20 local authors whose writing covers a range of genres including children's stories, memoirs, poetry, romantasy and true crime.

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Alex Grecian
Sun, Nov 1 | 1-2:30pm | Friends Annual Event | Marvin Auditorium

Topeka native and bestselling author Alex Grecian will discuss his work with Kaye McIntyre of Kansas Public Radio. Event will include a short business meeting and election of Friends board.

Grecian is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eight novels: The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop, The Harvest Man, Lost and Gone Forever, The Saint of Wolves and Butchers, Red Rabbit, and Rose of Jericho. 

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Remarkable authors who visited in 2026

• Editors Thomas Fox Averill & Leslie VonHolten with authors Marcia Cebulska, Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Valerie Mendoza and Josh Svaty, contributors to Kansas Matters: Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State
• Tim Bascom, nonfiction
• Chelan David author of Stories from the Phog
• Lucy Foley, mystery, suspense
• Brad Taylor, military thrillers