The Rhinelander District Library is proud to present the 4th Annual Local Author Fair on Saturday, September 26th, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Rhinelander High School, featuring an entertaining, humorous presentation with Michael Perry from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. Sponsored by the Rhinelander District Library Foundation, this event is free and open to the public.

The Local Author Fair will take place from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in the RHS commons. Twenty-five Wisconsin authors will be there to meet new readers, sell and sign books, and chat with the public.

The keynote with Wisconsin author Michael Perry will take place from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in the John and Dori Brown Performing Arts Center. In partnership with the Friends of the Rhinelander District Library, no tickets are required, and general admission seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, corporate speaker, volunteer firefighter/first responder, and amateur snowplow driver. A lifelong resident of the rural Midwest, his “reflective roughneck” takes on life in Middle America have left hundreds of thousands of readers and live audiences laughing, nodding, and sometimes misty.

The author of over 25 books including Population 485 (recently optioned for production as a Broadway musical), Truck: A Love Story, Forty Acres Deep, and Peaceful Persistence. Perry’s latest title is Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents: How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show you the way in business and creativity. Perry, a registered nurse who put himself through college working as a Wyoming cowboy and a roller-skating Snoopy, produces the popular audio newsletter “Michael Perry’s Voice Mail,” performs widely as a humorist and speaker, tours with his band The Long Beds, works as a script writer, voiceover artist and audiobook narrator, and still makes an occasional call with the local volunteer fire and rescue service.

“I grew up on the wooden end of a pitchfork,” says Perry, “so no matter what I’m doing it’s my experience as a Wisconsin farm boy and a Wyoming ranch hand that informs my approach. And none of it—whether it’s a television documentary, a song, or a book—happens unless I sit down and write. Fortunately, writing is my favorite thing, and I’m grateful for the improbable mentors and happy tangents that delivered me to this place.” Perry lives in rural Wisconsin and can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com.