Holiday Author Fair Set for December 6

More than seventy Hoosier authors will pack Eli Lilly Hall at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, from noon to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, December 6, for the Indiana Historical Society's annual Holiday Author Fair. The event is free and open to the public.

Among the authors who will be on hand to sign their books are bestselling author Philip Gulley, basketball legend Bobby "Slick" Leonard, Indiana historian James H. Madison, mystery writer Terrence Faherty, pastry chef Paula Haney, and former Indiana poet laureate Norbert Krapf.

In addition, several IHS Press authors will be at the fair, including:

• Richard D. Feldman, Family Practice Stories: Memories, Reflections, and Stories of Hoosier Family Doctors of the Mid-twentieth Century
• Wes D. Gehring, Robert Wise: Shadowlands
• John A. Beineke, Hoosier Public Enemy: A Life of John Dillinger
• Barbara Olenyik Morrow, Hardwood Glory: A Life of John Wooden
• Jennifer McSpadden, A Leaf of Voices: Stories of the American Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived and Died, 1861-65
• Kenneth L. Turchi, L. S. Ayres & Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America
• Douglas A. Wissing, Crown Hill: History, Spirit, Sanctuary

To help kick off the event, IHS Press author Beineke will give a talk on the life and career of Hoosier outlaw John Dillinger at 5:30 p.m. Friday, December 5, at the Indiana History Center.