Kentucky author Silas House will speak at the Main Library on Thursday, May 19 at 6:00 p.m.

Silas House is the author of four novels:  Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Eli the Good, two plays, The Hurting Part and Long Time Traveling, and Something’s Rising, a creative nonfiction book about social protest co-authored with Jason Howard.  House was selected to edit the posthumous manuscript of acclaimed writer James Still, Chinaberry.  House’s young adult novel, Same Sun Here, co-written with Neela Vaswani, will be published by Candlewick Books in early 2012.

House serves as the NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College and on the fiction faculty at Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program.  He is also one of Nashville’s most in-demand press kit writers, having written the press kit bios for such artists as Kris Kristofferson, Kathy Mattea, Leann Womack, and others. A former writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University, he is the creator of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival.

            This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 270-781-4882 or visit www.warrenpl.org.