Author Visits
Upcoming Author Visits
Brad Taylor, Suspense Author
Wed, April 22 | 7-8pm | Marvin Auditorium (Registration opens March 17)
Brad Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), is a veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces, including eight years with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment—Delta, popularly known as Delta Force. Taylor retired in 2010 after serving more than two decades and participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His final military post was as assistant professor of military science at The Citadel. Brad is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 thrillers and is a security consultant on asymmetric threats. His 20th book Shadow Strike will be released the day before his visit to the library. Photo credit: Claudio Marinesco
Content
Remarkable authors who visited in 2026
- Editors Thomas Fox Averill & Leslie VonHolten with Marcia Cebulska, Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Valerie Mendoza and Josh Svaty, contributors to Kansas Matters: Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State
- Chelan David author of Stories from the Phog
Incredible authors who visited in 2025
- Tim Bascom & Laurie Dove, adult fiction and nonfiction
- William Kent Krueger, adult fiction
- Dr. Walt Menninger & Todd Fertig, memoir and historical nonfiction
- Ernie Webb III, true crime
- Jaclyn Westlake, romance
- Lisa Wingate, historical fiction & inspirational
- Dr. Craig Yorke, memoir
- A.D. Childers, speculative fiction
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, memoir
Fantastic authors who visited in 2024
- Lara Avery, adult and young adult fiction
- Elizabeth Farnsworth, memoir and historical fiction
- Dane Kroll, young adult horror, fantasy, sci-fi fiction
- Lisa Scottoline, legal thrillers, historical fiction and nonfiction humor
Amazing authors visited in 2023
- Marcia Cebulksa, memoir
- Emily Cowan, history
- Lamar Giles, young adult thrillers
- Alex Grecian, mystery & thrillers
- Priscilla Howe, folktales
- Craig Johnson, western mysteries
- Janae Marks, middle grade novels
- Rita Woods, Afrofuturism


