18th Annual Mountain of Authors

Join us for the 2024 Mountain of Authors program, featuring keynote speaker Adian Miller, author of Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Local authors will be available for meet and greets, book signings, and book sales. Please bring a variety of payment methods (cash, check, credit card) if you are interested in purchasing books. 

Schedule of events to be announced shortly.

Applications from authors for the MOA Author Showcase will be accepted in early March at ppld.org/moa.

For more information, please visit ppld.org/moa.

About Adrian Miller:

Adrian Miller is a food writer, James Beard Award winner, attorney, and certified barbecue judge who lives in Denver, Colorado. Adrian is featured in the Netflix hit High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America.

Miller’s first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time won the James Beard Foundation Award for Scholarship and Reference in 2014. His second book, The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas was published on President’s Day 2017. It was a finalist for a 2018 NAACP Image Award for “Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction,” and the 2018 Colorado Book Award for History. Adrian’s third book, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue won the 2022 James Beard Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship and the 2022 Colorado Book Award for History. It was nominated for the 2022 International Association of Culinary Professionals Literary & Historical Writing Award.

To learn more, visit Adrian Miller's website, ardianemiller.com.

(photo credit: Aaron Colussi)