Kevin Grace is the head of the Archives & Rare Books Library at the University of Cincinnati and the university archivist. He also teaches in the University Honors Program on the global culture of books and reading, Shakespeare, folklore and mythology, rare books and manuscripts and Irish America. Grace is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books on Cincinnati and is also the creator of two Facebook pages, Guide to Literary Cincinnati and Cincinnati Shakespeare Heritage. He strongly believes in the power of reading aloud and that homes empty of books are empty houses.