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| | 2004 Southern Festival of Books, Authors Currently Confirmed |
 | | Ben Ferguson is the youngest nationally syndicated radio talk show host in the country and has been hosting talk radio programs since he was thirteen. |
 | | Andrei Codrescu 's commentaries are heard on National Public Radio; his travel film, Road Scholar, has won a Peabody Award; his Web journal, Exquisite Corpse, has a devoted following; and his books include poetry, essays, and travelogues, as well as the bestselling novels, The Blood Countess and Messiah. |
 | | Silas House 's first novel, Clay's Quilt, received a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council in 1997, won first place in the 1998 Kentucky chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters fiction competition, and was chosen as a finalist for the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year. |
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