Kinky Friedman to Deliver Keynote Address at AJC Decatur Book Festival

American iconoclast to kick off local literary event at Agnes Scott College

Richard S. “Kinky” Friedman recently signed on to give a keynote address at the 2007 Atlanta-Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival––presented by DeKalb Medical. The festival will be held August 31 to September 2, 2007. Friedman will speak Friday, August 31 at Presser Hall at Agnes Scott College.

“We are proud to have Kinky speak at the festival,” said Daren Wang, Executive Director of the AJC-DBF. “He is a one-of-a-kind American personality.”

Friedman’s forthcoming book is You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics.

Friedman, an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for Texas Monthly was one of the two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Friedman originally found cult fame as a country and western singer and in the spring of 1976 joined Bob Dylan on the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

The 2007 AJC-DBF will be held Labor Day weekend in the downtown Decatur Square.  The festival will feature 200 world-class authors, keynote addresses by Charles Frazier, best-selling author of Cold Mountain, and Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter, novelist, humorist, and politician, a children’s stage along with children’s activities, live music and poetry, and cooking demonstrations led by celebrity chefs. The festival’s schedule will be released in mid-August on the DBF website.