The Third Annual Alaska Book Festival ‘Historically Alaska’ will be held June 11, 12, 13, 2009.  Special guests this year are Willie Hensley, author of Fifty Miles From Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People and Brian Garfield, author of The Thousand Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians.

Most have you will have seen and heard that Ray Troll is our featured keynote speaker at this year’s ABF. Check out this recent article about him!

I’m James Huesmann, Dean of Libraries at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and I’m the resident blogger for the Alaska Book Festival!  I’ll be posting information and updates about the ABF, answering your questions (or getting answers for you), and overall serving as an intermediary between y’all and the ABF committee.  This year’s theme is Naturally Alaska, and naturally most of the authors and book celebrated this year correspond to the theme.  So let the fun begin!

Welcome to the Second Annual Alaska Book Festival!

Artwork by Ray Troll

We have an exciting program coming together this year. Please stay tuned for more information and check our main website page (http://www.uaf.edu/bookfestival) for more information.

Our keynote speaker this year is Ray Troll.