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Upcoming Author Visits

Alex Grecian
Nov 1 | 1-2:30pm | Friends Annual Event 

Grecian and book The BoatmanTopeka 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

  • Tim Bascom, nonfiction
  • 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
  • Chelan David author of Stories from the Phog
  • Brad Taylor, military thrillers
  • Lucy Foley, mystery and thrillers
 

Past Authors

Incredible authors who visited in 2025

  • Tim Bascom & Laurie Dove, adult fiction and nonfiction
  • A.D. Childers, speculative fiction
  • William Kent Krueger, adult fiction
  • Dr. Walt Menninger & Todd Fertig, memoir and historical nonfiction
  • Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, memoir
  • Ernie Webb III, true crime
  • Jaclyn Westlake, romance
  • Lisa Wingate, historical fiction & inspirational
  • Dr. Craig Yorke, 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 who 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

 

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