Don't miss the Alabama Book Festival!

Don't miss the fourth annual Alabama Book Festival! On Saturday, April 18, more than fifty novelists, poets, artists, illustrators, playwrights and children's writers will converge on the grounds of Old Alabama Town for the fourth annual state book festival. The festival is sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.

The Alabama Book Festival will include readings and signings by Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, Alabama's beloved Kathryn Tucker Windham and acclaimed photographer Beth Maynor Young, as well as chef Frank Stitt. A dedicated children's area will feature Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, among others. The Alabama Book Festival will kick off readings and activities at 10 a.m. and go until 4 p.m. The event is free and open to all. A special concluding event from 4 to 5 p.m. will feature the national debut of Warren St. John's new book, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town.

For more information and a complete list of authors and exhibitors, visit www.alabamabookcenter.org; or call 334-844-4946.

Festival sponsors include the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts, Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, Alabama Center for the Book, Alabama Humanities Foundation, Alabama Public Television, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Alabama Supreme Court and Law Library, Alabama Writers' Forum, Capitol Book, City of Montgomery, Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery City-County Public Library and Old Alabama Town.