[Libri] Massachusetts Book Awards September 14 in Amherst

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Dear Colleagues, 

The Massachusetts Center for the Book

cordially invites you to the

Third Annual Massachusetts Book Awards

Sunday, September 14
4:30-5:30 p.m.

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road
[at the back entrance to the Hampshire College campus]
Amherst, MA 01002


The honorees are as follows:

Fiction

Sea Room by Norman G. Gautreau ­ Winner

My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond ­ Honor

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Lisa Borders ­ Honor

 

Nonfiction

Revere Beach Elegy: a Memoir of Home and Beyond by Roland Merullo ­ Winner

Black Livingstone: a True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo
by Pagan Kennedy ­ Honor

Choosing Naia: a Family¹s Journey by Mitchell Zuckoff ­ Honor

 

Poetry

Never by Jorie Graham ­ Winner

Blind Huber by Nick Flynn ­ Honor

Among the Musk Ox People by Mary Ruefle ­ Honor

 

Children¹s Literature

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos ­ Winner

What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein ­ Honor

Little Rat Sets Sail by Monika Bang-Campbell ­ Honor

 

Lifetime Achievement Medal

We are very pleased to present this medal to Eric Carle for his lifelong
dedication to children¹s literature.

 
A reception and book-signing will follow at the neighboring National Yiddish
Book Center. A special guest for the event will be John Cole, executive
director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.  John will
speak about the Center for the Book organization and about its links to the
National Book Festival, also in its 3rd year this fall.


Please join us to celebrate the achievements of the authors, and to welcome
the Massachusetts Center for the Book to its new home at Hampshire College.

Jim Wald

Massachusetts Center for the Book Founding Partners:

American Antiquarian Society
Boston Public Library
Five Colleges, Inc.
Hampshire College
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
Simmons College

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