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Oklahoma Book Awards A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Welcome to the 18th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors 2007 • Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome.............................................................................................................................................M.J. Van Deventer President, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma.............................................................................................................Susan McVey Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries Greetings from the Library of Congress.....................................................................Maurvene Williams Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Now Showing at a Theater Near You.............................................................................Molly Levite Griffis Two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner Master of Ceremonies...............................................................................the Honorable M. Susan Savage Oklahoma Secretary of State Ralph Ellison Award Presentation..................................................................................... Patricia Loughlin Honoring Muriel L. Wright Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma and recipient of the 2006 Directors Award for Hidden Treasures of the American West Accepted by Bob Blackburn Director, Oklahoma History Center Poetry Award Presentation.....................................................................................................Richard Rouillard Professor of English, Oklahoma City Community College Design/Illustration Award Presentation........................................................................................Kay Boies Executive Director, Oklahoma Library Association Non-Fiction Award Presentation........................................................................................................Bob Burke 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Children/Young Adult Award Presentation....................................................... Una Belle Townsend 2004 Oklahoma Book Award winner Fiction Award Presentation...........................................................................................................Diane Seebass Fiction editor, Nimrod International Journal Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.....................................................Thomas Bennett, Jr. Honoring Clifton H. Taulbert Chairman and CEO, ONB Bank and Trust, Tulsa Announcements.....................................................................................................................................Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Music by Edgar Cruz The book sale and signing continues after dinner. Best of Books contributes all proceeds to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Please enjoy visiting with the book award medalists and finalists. 8 0 0 6 2 7 7 3 7 7 · O U P R E S S . C O M 2 8 0 0 V E N T U R E D R I V E • N O R M A N , O K L A H O M A 7 3 0 6 9 U N I V E R S I T Y O F O K L A H O M A P R E S S Mr. Ambassador Warrior for Peace By Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley Mr. Ambassador is the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history. $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3767-4 · 576 pages Historical Atlas of Oklahoma Fourth Edition By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indis-pensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an updat-ed version. Oklahoma authors Goins and Goble are joined by seventeen contributing scholars and other professionals to present 119 topics. To explore each, one or more maps with explanatory legends, tables, and graphs are paired with an interpretive essay. $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3482-6 · 320 pages Black Silk Handkerchief A Hom-Astubby Mystery By D. L. Birchfield In this fast-paced novel by D.L. Birchfield, a hard-luck Oklahoma Choctaw lawyer, Hom-Astubby, finds himself at the center of the biggest manhunt in Colorado history as he plays detective in a baffling murder. Hunted by Colorado’s most powerful cop, Hom-Astubby must race the clock to solve the murder and keep himself from being arrested as the perpetrator. The first in a series of mysteries featuring this appealing character, Black Silk Handkerchief is sure to keep readers on their toes. $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3751-3 · 368 pages Dreams to Dust A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush By Sheldon Russell Winner of the Langum Prize for Historical Literature, Dreams to Dust is a tale of high aspirations and broken dreams during the birth of a state. Russell takes readers back to the early days of Oklahoma Territory – a some-times dangerous place filled with nefarious dealings, where violence lurks behind even casual encounters – to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the windswept southern plains. $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3721-6 · 296 pages Muriel L. Wright Recipient of the 2007 Ralph Ellison Award It is fitting that Muriel Wright be recognized in the year of Oklahoma’s Centennial. She has been acclaimed as both making and preserving the history of our state. She wrote or co-authored 12 books on Oklahoma, and from 1955 to 1973, she served as editor of The Chronicles of Oklahoma, a journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society, shaping it into a well-regarded publica-tion. She described her identity as thoroughly American: one-fourth Choctaw and from distinguished colonial ancestry. She traced her genealogy to descendents aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Wright was born in Lehigh, Choctaw Nation, in 1889. Her grandfather was Allen Wright, chief of the Choctaw Nation from 1866 until 1870, and the man credited with coining the name “Oklahoma” from two Choctaw words translated as “Red People.” Among Muriel Wright’s literary achievements is the four-volume work Oklahoma, a History of the State and its People (1929) written with Joseph Thoburn. This was and still is the most comprehen-sive study of the state’s history and biography. Three of her other books: The Story of Oklahoma, Our Oklahoma, and The Oklahoma History were adopted by the state textbook commission for the public schools. She also wrote A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma and, with historian LeRoy Fischer, Civil War Sites in Oklahoma. Upon her retirement in 1973, George Shirk, board president of the Oklahoma Historical Society, said, “The thought of the gap that would have been left in Oklahoma history, had it not been for her work, makes me shudder.” Her awards and honors include: Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame of Famous American Indians, Oklahoma Historical Society Historians Hall of Fame, the University of Oklahoma Distinguished Service Citation, and an Honorary Doctorate from Oklahoma City University. She was also named Oklahoma City Woman of the Year in 1951. In 1971, Wright was named Outstanding Indian Woman of the Twentieth Century by the North American Indian Women’s Association. The Ralph Ellison Award From time to time, the Ralph Ellison Award, honoring a deceased Oklahoma writer, is presented. The award is named after the first recipient, Ralph Ellison, author of the ground-breaking novel Invisible Man. A list of Ellison Award recipients is listed on the Previous Winners page of this program. 2007 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Poetry Cosmic Rainbow: New and Collected Poems—Mary McAnally Partisan Press, Norfolk, VA McAnally is an activist, artist, pilgrim and poet. In living her life and creating her art, she is inspired by her Christian faith, her travels, and the struggles for social justice. The spectrum of Cosmic Rainbow includes popular works from her past; poetry on the dispossessed of the world; and poems occasioned by her return to Oklahoma and her spiritual awakening. McAnally has degrees from four institutions, and has held jobs ranging from Dairy Queen clerk to YWCA director to prison chaplain. Her poems have appeared in scores of literary journals. She is the proud mother of two children, grandmother of four, and person of six dogs. The Fork-In-The-Road Indian Poetry Store—Phillip Carroll Morgan Salt Publishing, Cambridge, United Kingdom This is Morgan’s first collection of poetry, and it’s an award-winner—recipient of the First Book Award for Poetry presented by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. He divides his collection up into four parts, one each for the four cardinal directions of the Medicine Wheel— East, North, West, and South—that follow a path from birth to wisdom. Morgan is an enrolled Choctaw/Chickasaw bilingual poet who lives with his artist wife, Kate, on his family’s original allotment. He has worked as a newspaper editor, business executive, building tradesman, guitar player and rancher. He is currently a PhD student in Native Literature at the University of Oklahoma. Travels Through Enchanted Woods—Carl Sennhenn Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK Baltimore native Sennhenn has called Oklahoma home since 1951, and he “feels called to honor… the Severn and the Chesapeake of Maryland as well as the prairie and vast horizons of Oklahoma.” This third collection by Sennhenn explores life, loss, and what can be restored through language, through enchantment. He teaches English and Humanities at Rose State College in Midwest City, and has presented readings and workshops nationally and statewide. In 2001, he was appointed to a two-year term as Oklahoma Poet Laureate. Native Son: American Poems from the Heart of Oklahoma—Ron Wallace TJMF Publishing, Clarksville, IN What it means to be an Oklahoman, the grace and magic of particular moments in our lives, and tributes to friends and inspirations are the themes of this first collection from Wallace. In his foreword to the collection, Choctaw Chief Gregory Pyle says Wallace “records the histories in the old way of father to son to grandson, and in so doing speaks for the universal nature of Oklahomans.” Born and raised in Durant, Ron Wallace currently teaches English classes at Colbert High School. He has spent 28 years teaching and coaching in public schools. He plans on making writing the next phase of his career. Design and Illustration OKC: Second Time Around—Design by Carl Brune—Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK Brune weaves more than 250 photos with historic plans and modern graphics to help tell the story of a downtown lost and reborn. He received the 2002 Oklahoma Book Award in Design for the Philbrook Museum of Art’s Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection. The Enid native makes his home in Tulsa where he provides freelance graphic design services for publications, businesses and museums. Crossing Bok Chitto—Illustrations by Jeanne Rorex Bridges Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX Rorex Bridges is an award-winning artist of Cherokee ancestry. She still lives on the land in eastern Oklahoma where she was raised. Here she paints and runs her successful art business with her husband James. She has become nationally known, winning many awards in Indian art shows. For several years, she has incorporated paintings depicting the shared history of Southeastern Indians and African Americans with her Native American work, making Crossing Bok Chitto a perfect fit for her first book illustration. Chickasaw: Unconquerable and Unconquered—Photography by David Fitzgerald Chickasaw Press, Ada, OK This is the first book published by the new Chickasaw Press, and fittingly it tells the story of the tribe from Removal to present day. Its publication in 2006 marks the 150th anniversary of the Chickasaw constitution. David Fitzgerald’s striking photography captures the land and the people of this great nation. Fitzgerald has been named Oklahoma Photographer of the Year three times. He’s also an Oklahoma Book Award winner for his photographic work, Bison: Monarch of the Plains. His other books include Ozarks, Cherokee, Oklahoma Crossroads, and the new Oklahoma 3. The Gold Miner’s Daughter—Illustrations by Jon Goodell Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, GA Gracie Pearl is on a mission to save her and her father’s home from the clutches of mean old Mr. Bigglebottom. During her adventure, she comes across a blond girl being chased by three bears, three little pigs tied to a railroad track, and a longhaired lass locked in a rickety tower. Jon Goodell has illustrated numerous children’s books, including The Alley Cat’s Meow and Merry Christmas, Merry Crow. He received the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for his illustrations in Mother, Mother, I Want Another. You Know We Belong to the Land: The Centennial History of Oklahoma Design by Skip McKinstry—Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City, OK Historians Paul Lambert and Bob Blackburn tell the story of Oklahoma through the lives of 33 fascinating individuals. Designer McKinstry worked with the authors to incorporate biographies, sidebars and photographs to create this official Centennial omnibus. Skip McKinstry works by day as a marketing planner for a Fortune 50 health care technology company. By night he selectively pursues a 20-year calling to graphic design through freelance corporate identity, advertising, writing and book design projects. This is his fifth book project with Bob Blackburn, his second with Paul Lambert, and his first with the OHA. Non-Fiction Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency—Michael Blake Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ One hundred fifty years ago, a young America fought a determined insurgent force of Indian warriors struggling to protect their way of life. How the country handled this “Indian Problem” became the defining factor in shaping how Indians live in America today. Blake weaves the factors involving twelve significant conflicts—from 1854 to 1890—into a narrative illuminating the undercurrents of hostilities between nations during America’s westward expansion. Blake is author of the novel Dances with Wolves, which was turned into an Academy Award-winning film. Indian Yell is his first work of non-fiction, and reflects more than 30 years of research. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition—Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK This isn’t just an update to a legendary reference source—it’s a complete recreation. The authors are joined by seventeen contributing scholars (including natural and physical scientists) and other professionals to present 119 topics. To explore each, one or more maps with explanatory legends, tables, and graphs are paired with an interpretive essay. The result is a work that is more valuable than ever to students of the state. Goins is Professor Emeritus in the College of Architecture of the University of Oklahoma. Goble, an OU Professor of Letters, received the Oklahoma Book Award for non-fiction in 1991 for Little Giant, the story of Carl Albert. Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace—Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK “Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.” So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black American ambassador to South Africa. Perkins story takes him from the cotton farms of Louisiana to the white elite Foreign Service where he would make history. Now retired as a U.S. Ambassador, he serves as Executive Director of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma. Tulsa writer Connie Cronley has worked in newspaper, television, advertising and public relations. Her public radio commentaries are heard on KWGS, NPR 89.5. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town—John Grisham Doubleday/Random House Inc. New York, NY This is John Grisham’s first foray into nonfiction, and it sheds a frightening spotlight on the shaky justice system we would all like to believe in. The protagonist is Ada’s hometown hero, baseball prodigy Ron Williamson. After six-years in the big leagues, Williamson returns home a broken man, the victim of a bad arm and bad habits. Due to several brushes with the law, he becomes the town’s suspect after a ghastly murder. The book tracks the trail of injustices that the suspect and his family endure while consistently proclaiming complete innocence. Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story—Betty Grant Henshaw Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX “As I look back over the path my family has traveled—our journey from Oklahoma on Route 66; our life in the labor camp; the awful thirst in the overwhelming heat of the fields; our tired, aching bodies—I have come to look upon that path as a sort of Holy Ground, and I have carried a deep longing to write my memories down.” Betty Grant Henshaw’s memoir is a classic Okie story. Like many such stories, it is ultimately one of triumph. The author, now in her seventies, lives in Medford, Oregon White Man’s Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains—Stan Hoig—University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO Hoig presents a poignant history of the U.S. government’s attempts to negotiate treaties with the tribes of the Central Plains in the nineteenth century. The author’s research shows how treaty-making, negotiated by peace commissioners and once the most promising method for resolving conflicts without military involvement, degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises. Hoig is professor emeritus at the University of Central Oklahoma, and the author of 20 books. He is an Oklahoma Book Award winner in the children/young adult category for A Capitol for the Nation. Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste Joni L. Kinsey—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Both a visual feast and an authoritative treatise, this book sheds new light on how artistic portrayals of the West contributed to our national identify. Joni L. Kinsey is associate professor of art history at the University of Iowa and author of Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Kinsey was raised in Tulsa, home of the Gilcrease Museum, which holds the largest collection of works by Moran. OKC: Second Time Around—Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK In writing this work, Lackmeyer and Money have made the transition from deadline journalists to thoughtful chroniclers of a city’s commitment to recreate itself. The narrative pulls together the almost serendipitous combination of circumstances that resulted in today’s growing, vibrant, downtown Oklahoma City. Money is assistant city editor at The Oklahoman, while Lackmeyer writes a weekly column, “Main Street,” for the paper’s business section. These award-winning journalists have followed Oklahoma City’s rebirth pangs since they were lads. From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music—John Wooley published by Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa, OK Commissioned by the Oklahoma Arts Institute, this is a sweeping history of the major musical trends and genres that have come out of Oklahoma to the world. Wooley has been writing about Oklahoma music for more than a quarter of a century, and he is the only writer inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. He is a journalist, novelist, scriptwriter, historian, and … you got it! … a musician. Wooley’s novel Dark Within was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Children/Young Adult Chuck’s Truck—Peggy Perry Anderson Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, Boston, MA When too many barnyard friends climb in to go to town, Chuck’s truck breaks down—but handyman Hugh knows just what to do! Anderson has written and illustrated several picture books for children, including those featuring the indomitable Joe the frog. Her book We Go in a Circle was a 2005 Oklahoma Book Award finalist. She is a full-time elementary school art teacher and mother of three living in Owasso, Oklahoma. Golden—Jennifer Lee Barnes—Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY At Emory High School, there are two kinds of people: those who matter… and those who don’t. When Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, she finds herself in the middle of a teenage nightmare: a social scene to rival a Hollywood movie. It soon becomes apparent there is something more evil than the A-crowd lurking in the classrooms. A native Oklahoman, Barnes is a graduate of Yale University. She wrote Golden at the age of nineteen. Her second novel is due out this year. Trash—Sharon Darrow—Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA Boy and Sissy are accustomed to feeling like trash: their mother discarded them—never even bothered to name them—and a foul wind blows them from one foster home to the next. In this unique narrative of poems, Boy and Sissy tell the world who they really are. Darrow is the author of picture books, young adult novels, creative non-fiction and poetry. She is on the faculty of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College. She received the Oklahoma Book Award for children/young adult in 2004 for The Painters of Lexieville. Paradise on the Prairie—Molly Levite Griffis—Eakin Press, Austin, Texas Griffis’s tribute to the Centennial is a blend of historical facts and fiction. New York orphan Johnny Pickett is put on a train and brought to the wilds of the Twin Territories. As Johnny struggles to find a home, Oklahoma and Indian Territories struggle to become a state. A two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner, Griffis is the author of eight books. She has taught school in every level from third grade through college, has owned and operated a bookstore, and is a favorite speaker at schools across the state. She lives in Norman. H is for Honor: A Military Family Alphabet—Devin Scillian Published by Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI This picture book pays respect to the United States Military from A (for American Armed Forces) to Z (for Zulu, a word used in radio communication). Author, musician and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, Scillian is the son of a career military officer. He grew up all over the world but considers Oklahoma home. Formerly an anchor for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, he now anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. His book, S is for Sooner: An American Alphabet was a 2004 finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in the children/young adult category. Knights of the Hill Country—Tim Tharp Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY Welcome to Kennisaw, Oklahoma, where Friday night football ranks next to God and country and sometimes comes in first. The Kennisaw Knights are going for their fifth-straight undefeated season and if they win they will be legends. This is the story of a boy who must decide for himself the true meaning of sportsmanship and loyalty. Tharp grew up in Midwest City, home of the Bombers. He teaches in the Humanities Department at Rose State College. His first novel, Falling Dark, was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and was a finalist in the fiction category for the Oklahoma Book Awards. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom—Tim Tingle Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Tx A river called Bok Chitto cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, the river formed a boundary between the Choctaw lands and the plantations. If a slave escaped from the plantations and made his way across Bok Chitto, he was free. Tim Tingle is a popular presenter at storytelling and folklore festivals across America. He is especially well known for his stories about his native Choctaws. Tim was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 2004 for Walking the Choctaw Road, and the book was the second title selected for Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma. Fiction Black Silk Handkerchief—D. L. Birchfield—University of Oklahoma Press In this fast-paced novel, a hard-luck Oklahoma Choctaw lawyer decides that doing things on Indian time just isn’t compatible with practicing law. He tries his luck as a photographer and finds himself at the center of the biggest manhunt in Colorado’s history. Birchfield, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, won the Western Spur Award for his novel Field of Honor. He is a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Everlasting—Carol Johnson—Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa Forced into marriage to a man twenty years her senior, Vada Priddy finds herself at odds with her new husband, his children, and the hardscrabble existence she has to endure. In spite of the adversities, she manages to forge a decent life, and she grows into a strong Oklahoma woman. This warmhearted novel gives readers the inspirational experience of mid-twentieth century Everywoman and her daily struggles. Johnson teaches writing at Tulsa Community College and lives in Mounds. This is her first novel. Magic Time—Doug Marlette Sara Crichton Books/Farrar, Staraus and Giroux, New York, NY In this page-turner, a 1991 visit to his Mississippi hometown forces a New York City newspaper columnist to re-examine events of the Freedom Summer of 1964. The story moves between New York City, the New South of the early 1990s and Mississippi’s civil rights revolution of 1964. Marlette is a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist and is on the staff of the Tulsa World. The Southeast Booksellers Association gave his first novel, The Bridge, its 2002 Book Award for Fiction. The Piano Man—Marcia Preston—Mira Books, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada Looking for meaning in the tragic death of her teenage son, Claire O’Neal seeks out the person who received her son’s heart. When she finds the heart recipient, she discovers a cynical, chain-smoking, divorced man with no will to live. Claire is driven with a purpose that borders on obsession to help the aimless young man. As two lost, lonely people find hope, they learn that life’s most beautiful music comes from the heart. Preston is the winner of the 2004 Mary Higgins Clark Award for Suspense Fiction and the Oklahoma Book Award in fiction for Song of the Bones. She lives in Edmond. Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush—Sheldon Russell University of Oklahoma Press Readers of Russell’s latest work return to the early days of Oklahoma Territory where frontier men and women gamble everything to find their future. In recounting the rise and fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, the author immerses us in the lives of his characters, whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier. Russell grew up on a cattle ranch in the Gloss Mountains of northwestern Oklahoma. He resides in historic Guthrie, where he and wife Nancy, a sculptor, own and operate the Double Starr Studio and Gallery. The Limehouse Text—Will Thomas—Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY British detective team Cyrus Barker and his Welsh assistant Thomas Llewelyn join up again to take readers through the gritty streets of turn-of-the-century London in this exciting mystery. This time, the adventure centers on an ancient Chinese book on martial arts. Some parties are willing to kill in order to gain its secrets. Will Thomas’s first book, Some Danger Involved, received the Oklahoma Book Award in 2005. A scholar of the Victorian era, Thomas and his wife, Julie, live in Tulsa, where he works as a librarian. Congratulations Clifton Taulbert from the Oklahoma Heritage Association 2007 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient www.oklahomaheritage.com Skip McKinstry Design Finalist You Know We Belong to the Land: The Centennial History of Oklahoma Oklahoma Heritage Association THE LEADER IN PUBLISHING OKLAHOMA’S HISTORY www.oklahomaheritage.com Congratulations The Tulsa Library Trust salutes Clifton Taulbert Arrell Gibson Lifetime Acheivement Award honoree and all of tonight’s finalists and honorees. Clifton H. Taulbert Recipient of the 2007 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Clifton Taulbert is probably best known for his memoir Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, about his experience of growing up in the racially charged Mississippi Delta during the civil rights movement. In his picture of tiny Glen Allen, Mississippi, Taulbert focuses more on the bonds of family and community—“the front porch people”—rather than the growing conflict between black and white. The work is also a love song to the family that nourished him and protected him from a world of hatred and segregation. Publishers Weekly described the book as a “funny, sweet, touching memoir.” Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored was made into a popular motion picture. A second memoir, The Last Train North, continues his experiences after high school, when he left Mississippi and traveled to St. Louis for “the good life.” This book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rounding out the trilogy is Watching our Crops Come In, which covers Taulbert’s time in the United States Air Force, and a revealing return trip to his Mississippi home town. Other non-fiction books include, Eight Habits of the Heart, The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son, and Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators. Taulbert has also written three children’s books: Little Cliff and the Porch People, Little Cliff’s First Day of School, and Little Cliff and the Cold Place. He also is the founder and director of the Building Community Institute located in Tulsa. A popular lecturer and motivator, he speaks throughout the world on the need to create an environment branded by respect, affirmation, and inclusion. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to recognize a body of work. This award was named for the Norman, Oklahoma, historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Fiction 1990 • Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister 1991 • Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit 1992 • Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark 1993 • Rilla Askew, Strange Business 1994 • Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist 1995 • William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice 1996 • Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is 1997 • Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead 1998 • Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat 1999 • Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon 2000 • William Bernhardt, Dark Justice 2001 • Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead 2002 • Douglas Kelley, The Captain’s Wife 2003 • Diane Glancy, The Mask Maker: A Novel 2004 • M.K. Preston, Song of the Bones 2005 • Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved 2006 • David Kent, The Black Jack Conspiracy Non-Fiction 1990 • Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick 1991 • Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant 1992 • David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State 1993 • Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators 1994 • J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever 1995 • Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton 1996 • William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm 1997 • Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass 1998 • John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin 1999 • Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae 2000 • Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West 2001 • David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory 2002 • Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor; Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003 • Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape 2004 • Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity 2005 • Ed Cray, Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie 2006 • Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time Children/Young Adult 1990 • Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and It’s Kin 1991 • Stan Hoig, A Capital for the Nation 1992 • Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy 1993 • Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie 1994 • Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer 1995 • Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code 1996 • Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl 1997 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Stone Water 1998 • S. L. Rottman, Hero 1999 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Broken Chords 2000 • Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net 2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas, Hush Songs 2002 • Molly Levite Griffis, The Rachel Resistance 2003 • Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story 2004 • Children—Una Belle Townsend, Grady’s in the Silo Young Adult—Sharon Darrow, The Painters of Lexieville 2005 • Children—Joyce Carol Thomas, The Gospel Cinderella Young Adult—Molly Levite Griffis, Simon Says 2006 • Anna Myers, Assassin Poetry 1990 • William Kistler, The Elizabeth Sequence 1992 • Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust 1993 • Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War 1994 • Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation 1995 • Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky 1996 • Francine Ringold, The Trouble with Voices 1997 • Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli’s The Blazing Lights of the Sun 1998 • Betty Shipley, Somebody Say Amen 1999 • Mark Cox, Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone 2000 • N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House 2001 • Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire 2002 • Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems 2003 • Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 2004 • Laura Apol, Crossing the Ladder of Sun 2005 • Francine Ringold, Still Dancing 2006 • Leanne Howe, Evidence of Red Previous Design/Illustration 1990 • David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson 1991 • Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens 1992 • Joe Williams, Woolaroc 1993 • Design—Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas 1994 • Deloss McGraw, Fish Story 1995 • Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love 1996 • Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony 1997 • Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass 1998 • Carol Haralson, Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art 1999 • David Fitzgerald, Bison: Monarch of the Plains 2000 • Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma 2001 • Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 2002 • Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003 • Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals 2004 • Design—Scott Horton and Jim Argo, Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, S is for Sooner 2005 • Carol Haralson, A History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion 2006 • Design—Carol Haralson, Home: Native People in the Southwest Illustration—Jon Goodell, Mother, Mother, I Want Another Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award 1990 • Daniel Boorstin—Librarian of Congress Emeritus—native of Tulsa 1991 • Tony Hillerman—award winning mystery writer—native of Sacred Heart 1992 • Savoie Lottinville—Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years 1993 • Harold Keith—Newbery Award winning children's author—Norman 1994 • N. Scott Momaday—Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author—native of Lawton 1995 • R.A. Lafferty—Hugo Award winning author—Tulsa 1996 • John Hope Franklin—historian—native of Rentiesville 1997 • S.E. Hinton—author of young adult novels—Tulsa 1998 • Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman 1999 • Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa 2000 • Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha 2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City 2002 • World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman 2003 • Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa 2004 • Carolyn Hart—award winning mystery writer—Oklahoma City 2005 • C.J. Cherryh—Hugo Award winning author—Oklahoma City 2006 • Bob Burke—Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City Ralph Ellison Award 1995 • Ralph Ellison National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City 1997 • Angie Debo “First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall 1999 • Melvin Tolson poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston 2000 • Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko 2002 • John Berryman poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester 2004 • Lynn Riggs—playwright and screenwriter—Claremore 2005 • Woody Guthrie author, illustrator, and songwriter—Okemah 2006 • John Joseph Mathews Osage novelist and historian—Pawhuska Winners Read About It Congratulates all of the 2007 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Tune into Read About It on your Cox Cable local channel The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2007 competition Keith Allen Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies Adrienne Butler Terry Collins Julie Dill Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Dee Fisher Gerald Hibbs Carol Davis Koss Sharon Martin Louisa McCune-Elmore Raymond D. Munkres Kitty Pittman Byron Price Richard Rouillard Diane Seebass Kristin Sorocco Laurie Sundborg William R. Struby Leah Taylor Una Belle Townsend Maria Verez Revere Young The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals Barnes and Noble Best of Books, Edmond Center for the Book in the Library of Congress The Chickasaw Nation Full Circle Books Rodger Harris, Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society Fred Marvel, Photographer Metropolitan Library System Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Heritage Association Pioneer Library System Tulsa Library Trust University of Oklahoma Press Special thanks to... Sue Stees, Ceremony Chair, and committee members M.J. Van Deventer, Kitty Pittman, Diane Seebass, and B.J. Williams Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Glenda Carlile, Connie Armstrong, Michael O’Hasson, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young Project Highlights The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and its Friends support group have participated in several events in the last year. Many exciting events are an-ticipated in the coming months. Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma—The Center is proud to be a sponsor of this statewide reading and discussion program. Rilla Askew is looking forward to meeting readers across Oklahoma, and discussing her book Fire in Beulah throughout 2007. As a Centennial project, this will be the final year for Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma. Oklahoma Author Database—At long last, Oklahoma author information is being collected in a database and is available for use by libraries, schools and individuals. Log on to www.crossroads. odl.state.ok.us, and click “collections” and “authors” to see this work-in-progress. Authors in Libraries—The Center has been awarded a grant by Inasmuch Foundation to send book award finalists to libraries in rural communities during the Centennial year. Letters About Literature is a contest co-sponsored with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Target Corporation where students write a letter to an author, living or dead, telling how a book has influenced his or her life. Kids Caught Reading is an annual event that the Center has been pleased to participate in for several years. Friends of the Center will again give $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are “caught reading” in their spare time. For the last five years the Center has participated in the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book president M. J. Van Deventer and OCB execu-tive director Glenda Carlile were fortunate to attend the festival last fall, promoting our state and the its authors. The Friends of the Center for the Book provided funds to sponsor a speaker at the 2006 Oklahoma Library Association annual conference and plan to participate again in 2007. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is pleased to participate in the Red Dirt Book Festival in Shawnee from November 2–3, 2007, and in the Oklahoma Centennial Book Festival to be held at Oklahoma City University on May 19, 2007. Information is available for membership to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book— please call 405–522–3575. The Staff of Full Circle Bookstore congratulates Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money, authors of OKC Second Time Around: A Renaissance Story, on their selection as finalists in the Non- Fiction category; and designer Carl Brune on his selection as a finalist in the Design/ Illustration category. $39.95, hardcover with jacket Bookstore Connie Armstrong—Norman Kirk Bjornsgaard—Norman Bettye Black—Langston Bob Burke—Oklahoma City Glenda Carlile—Oklahoma City David Clark—Norman Betty Crow—Altus Louix Escobar-Matute—Tulsa Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang Wayne Hanway—McAlester Julie Hovis—Edmond Karen Klinka—Oklahoma City Susan McVey—Oklahoma City Raymond D. Munkres—Midwest City Karen Neurohr—Stillwater Kitty Pittman—Oklahoma City Marcia Preston—Edmond Judy Randle—Tulsa Diane Seebass—Tulsa Kristin Sorocco—Oklahoma City Sue Stees—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa Jane Taylor—Edmond William R. Young—Oklahoma City Friends of the Center The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501–c-3 organization. The Friends is a cultural and educational corporation to advance and promote the role of the book and reading in Oklahoma. The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book supports and further enhances the programs and projects of the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. A volunteer board of directors from across the state governs the Friends. President— M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City Vice-President— Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Secretary—Gini Moore Campbell—Oklahoma City Treasurer—Gerald Hibbs—Oklahoma City Immediate Past-President— B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb 405–522–3575 200 NE 18 Street Oklahoma City OK 73105–3298 The 2007 Oklahoma Book Awards are sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. 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Transcript | Oklahoma Book Awards A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Welcome to the 18th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors 2007 • Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome.............................................................................................................................................M.J. Van Deventer President, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma.............................................................................................................Susan McVey Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries Greetings from the Library of Congress.....................................................................Maurvene Williams Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Now Showing at a Theater Near You.............................................................................Molly Levite Griffis Two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner Master of Ceremonies...............................................................................the Honorable M. Susan Savage Oklahoma Secretary of State Ralph Ellison Award Presentation..................................................................................... Patricia Loughlin Honoring Muriel L. Wright Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma and recipient of the 2006 Directors Award for Hidden Treasures of the American West Accepted by Bob Blackburn Director, Oklahoma History Center Poetry Award Presentation.....................................................................................................Richard Rouillard Professor of English, Oklahoma City Community College Design/Illustration Award Presentation........................................................................................Kay Boies Executive Director, Oklahoma Library Association Non-Fiction Award Presentation........................................................................................................Bob Burke 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Children/Young Adult Award Presentation....................................................... Una Belle Townsend 2004 Oklahoma Book Award winner Fiction Award Presentation...........................................................................................................Diane Seebass Fiction editor, Nimrod International Journal Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.....................................................Thomas Bennett, Jr. Honoring Clifton H. Taulbert Chairman and CEO, ONB Bank and Trust, Tulsa Announcements.....................................................................................................................................Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Music by Edgar Cruz The book sale and signing continues after dinner. Best of Books contributes all proceeds to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Please enjoy visiting with the book award medalists and finalists. 8 0 0 6 2 7 7 3 7 7 · O U P R E S S . C O M 2 8 0 0 V E N T U R E D R I V E • N O R M A N , O K L A H O M A 7 3 0 6 9 U N I V E R S I T Y O F O K L A H O M A P R E S S Mr. Ambassador Warrior for Peace By Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley Mr. Ambassador is the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history. $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3767-4 · 576 pages Historical Atlas of Oklahoma Fourth Edition By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indis-pensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an updat-ed version. Oklahoma authors Goins and Goble are joined by seventeen contributing scholars and other professionals to present 119 topics. To explore each, one or more maps with explanatory legends, tables, and graphs are paired with an interpretive essay. $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3482-6 · 320 pages Black Silk Handkerchief A Hom-Astubby Mystery By D. L. Birchfield In this fast-paced novel by D.L. Birchfield, a hard-luck Oklahoma Choctaw lawyer, Hom-Astubby, finds himself at the center of the biggest manhunt in Colorado history as he plays detective in a baffling murder. Hunted by Colorado’s most powerful cop, Hom-Astubby must race the clock to solve the murder and keep himself from being arrested as the perpetrator. The first in a series of mysteries featuring this appealing character, Black Silk Handkerchief is sure to keep readers on their toes. $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3751-3 · 368 pages Dreams to Dust A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush By Sheldon Russell Winner of the Langum Prize for Historical Literature, Dreams to Dust is a tale of high aspirations and broken dreams during the birth of a state. Russell takes readers back to the early days of Oklahoma Territory – a some-times dangerous place filled with nefarious dealings, where violence lurks behind even casual encounters – to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the windswept southern plains. $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3721-6 · 296 pages Muriel L. Wright Recipient of the 2007 Ralph Ellison Award It is fitting that Muriel Wright be recognized in the year of Oklahoma’s Centennial. She has been acclaimed as both making and preserving the history of our state. She wrote or co-authored 12 books on Oklahoma, and from 1955 to 1973, she served as editor of The Chronicles of Oklahoma, a journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society, shaping it into a well-regarded publica-tion. She described her identity as thoroughly American: one-fourth Choctaw and from distinguished colonial ancestry. She traced her genealogy to descendents aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Wright was born in Lehigh, Choctaw Nation, in 1889. Her grandfather was Allen Wright, chief of the Choctaw Nation from 1866 until 1870, and the man credited with coining the name “Oklahoma” from two Choctaw words translated as “Red People.” Among Muriel Wright’s literary achievements is the four-volume work Oklahoma, a History of the State and its People (1929) written with Joseph Thoburn. This was and still is the most comprehen-sive study of the state’s history and biography. Three of her other books: The Story of Oklahoma, Our Oklahoma, and The Oklahoma History were adopted by the state textbook commission for the public schools. She also wrote A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma and, with historian LeRoy Fischer, Civil War Sites in Oklahoma. Upon her retirement in 1973, George Shirk, board president of the Oklahoma Historical Society, said, “The thought of the gap that would have been left in Oklahoma history, had it not been for her work, makes me shudder.” Her awards and honors include: Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame of Famous American Indians, Oklahoma Historical Society Historians Hall of Fame, the University of Oklahoma Distinguished Service Citation, and an Honorary Doctorate from Oklahoma City University. She was also named Oklahoma City Woman of the Year in 1951. In 1971, Wright was named Outstanding Indian Woman of the Twentieth Century by the North American Indian Women’s Association. The Ralph Ellison Award From time to time, the Ralph Ellison Award, honoring a deceased Oklahoma writer, is presented. The award is named after the first recipient, Ralph Ellison, author of the ground-breaking novel Invisible Man. A list of Ellison Award recipients is listed on the Previous Winners page of this program. 2007 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Poetry Cosmic Rainbow: New and Collected Poems—Mary McAnally Partisan Press, Norfolk, VA McAnally is an activist, artist, pilgrim and poet. In living her life and creating her art, she is inspired by her Christian faith, her travels, and the struggles for social justice. The spectrum of Cosmic Rainbow includes popular works from her past; poetry on the dispossessed of the world; and poems occasioned by her return to Oklahoma and her spiritual awakening. McAnally has degrees from four institutions, and has held jobs ranging from Dairy Queen clerk to YWCA director to prison chaplain. Her poems have appeared in scores of literary journals. She is the proud mother of two children, grandmother of four, and person of six dogs. The Fork-In-The-Road Indian Poetry Store—Phillip Carroll Morgan Salt Publishing, Cambridge, United Kingdom This is Morgan’s first collection of poetry, and it’s an award-winner—recipient of the First Book Award for Poetry presented by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. He divides his collection up into four parts, one each for the four cardinal directions of the Medicine Wheel— East, North, West, and South—that follow a path from birth to wisdom. Morgan is an enrolled Choctaw/Chickasaw bilingual poet who lives with his artist wife, Kate, on his family’s original allotment. He has worked as a newspaper editor, business executive, building tradesman, guitar player and rancher. He is currently a PhD student in Native Literature at the University of Oklahoma. Travels Through Enchanted Woods—Carl Sennhenn Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK Baltimore native Sennhenn has called Oklahoma home since 1951, and he “feels called to honor… the Severn and the Chesapeake of Maryland as well as the prairie and vast horizons of Oklahoma.” This third collection by Sennhenn explores life, loss, and what can be restored through language, through enchantment. He teaches English and Humanities at Rose State College in Midwest City, and has presented readings and workshops nationally and statewide. In 2001, he was appointed to a two-year term as Oklahoma Poet Laureate. Native Son: American Poems from the Heart of Oklahoma—Ron Wallace TJMF Publishing, Clarksville, IN What it means to be an Oklahoman, the grace and magic of particular moments in our lives, and tributes to friends and inspirations are the themes of this first collection from Wallace. In his foreword to the collection, Choctaw Chief Gregory Pyle says Wallace “records the histories in the old way of father to son to grandson, and in so doing speaks for the universal nature of Oklahomans.” Born and raised in Durant, Ron Wallace currently teaches English classes at Colbert High School. He has spent 28 years teaching and coaching in public schools. He plans on making writing the next phase of his career. Design and Illustration OKC: Second Time Around—Design by Carl Brune—Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK Brune weaves more than 250 photos with historic plans and modern graphics to help tell the story of a downtown lost and reborn. He received the 2002 Oklahoma Book Award in Design for the Philbrook Museum of Art’s Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection. The Enid native makes his home in Tulsa where he provides freelance graphic design services for publications, businesses and museums. Crossing Bok Chitto—Illustrations by Jeanne Rorex Bridges Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX Rorex Bridges is an award-winning artist of Cherokee ancestry. She still lives on the land in eastern Oklahoma where she was raised. Here she paints and runs her successful art business with her husband James. She has become nationally known, winning many awards in Indian art shows. For several years, she has incorporated paintings depicting the shared history of Southeastern Indians and African Americans with her Native American work, making Crossing Bok Chitto a perfect fit for her first book illustration. Chickasaw: Unconquerable and Unconquered—Photography by David Fitzgerald Chickasaw Press, Ada, OK This is the first book published by the new Chickasaw Press, and fittingly it tells the story of the tribe from Removal to present day. Its publication in 2006 marks the 150th anniversary of the Chickasaw constitution. David Fitzgerald’s striking photography captures the land and the people of this great nation. Fitzgerald has been named Oklahoma Photographer of the Year three times. He’s also an Oklahoma Book Award winner for his photographic work, Bison: Monarch of the Plains. His other books include Ozarks, Cherokee, Oklahoma Crossroads, and the new Oklahoma 3. The Gold Miner’s Daughter—Illustrations by Jon Goodell Peachtree Publishers, Atlanta, GA Gracie Pearl is on a mission to save her and her father’s home from the clutches of mean old Mr. Bigglebottom. During her adventure, she comes across a blond girl being chased by three bears, three little pigs tied to a railroad track, and a longhaired lass locked in a rickety tower. Jon Goodell has illustrated numerous children’s books, including The Alley Cat’s Meow and Merry Christmas, Merry Crow. He received the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for his illustrations in Mother, Mother, I Want Another. You Know We Belong to the Land: The Centennial History of Oklahoma Design by Skip McKinstry—Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City, OK Historians Paul Lambert and Bob Blackburn tell the story of Oklahoma through the lives of 33 fascinating individuals. Designer McKinstry worked with the authors to incorporate biographies, sidebars and photographs to create this official Centennial omnibus. Skip McKinstry works by day as a marketing planner for a Fortune 50 health care technology company. By night he selectively pursues a 20-year calling to graphic design through freelance corporate identity, advertising, writing and book design projects. This is his fifth book project with Bob Blackburn, his second with Paul Lambert, and his first with the OHA. Non-Fiction Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency—Michael Blake Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ One hundred fifty years ago, a young America fought a determined insurgent force of Indian warriors struggling to protect their way of life. How the country handled this “Indian Problem” became the defining factor in shaping how Indians live in America today. Blake weaves the factors involving twelve significant conflicts—from 1854 to 1890—into a narrative illuminating the undercurrents of hostilities between nations during America’s westward expansion. Blake is author of the novel Dances with Wolves, which was turned into an Academy Award-winning film. Indian Yell is his first work of non-fiction, and reflects more than 30 years of research. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition—Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK This isn’t just an update to a legendary reference source—it’s a complete recreation. The authors are joined by seventeen contributing scholars (including natural and physical scientists) and other professionals to present 119 topics. To explore each, one or more maps with explanatory legends, tables, and graphs are paired with an interpretive essay. The result is a work that is more valuable than ever to students of the state. Goins is Professor Emeritus in the College of Architecture of the University of Oklahoma. Goble, an OU Professor of Letters, received the Oklahoma Book Award for non-fiction in 1991 for Little Giant, the story of Carl Albert. Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace—Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK “Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.” So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black American ambassador to South Africa. Perkins story takes him from the cotton farms of Louisiana to the white elite Foreign Service where he would make history. Now retired as a U.S. Ambassador, he serves as Executive Director of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma. Tulsa writer Connie Cronley has worked in newspaper, television, advertising and public relations. Her public radio commentaries are heard on KWGS, NPR 89.5. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town—John Grisham Doubleday/Random House Inc. New York, NY This is John Grisham’s first foray into nonfiction, and it sheds a frightening spotlight on the shaky justice system we would all like to believe in. The protagonist is Ada’s hometown hero, baseball prodigy Ron Williamson. After six-years in the big leagues, Williamson returns home a broken man, the victim of a bad arm and bad habits. Due to several brushes with the law, he becomes the town’s suspect after a ghastly murder. The book tracks the trail of injustices that the suspect and his family endure while consistently proclaiming complete innocence. Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story—Betty Grant Henshaw Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX “As I look back over the path my family has traveled—our journey from Oklahoma on Route 66; our life in the labor camp; the awful thirst in the overwhelming heat of the fields; our tired, aching bodies—I have come to look upon that path as a sort of Holy Ground, and I have carried a deep longing to write my memories down.” Betty Grant Henshaw’s memoir is a classic Okie story. Like many such stories, it is ultimately one of triumph. The author, now in her seventies, lives in Medford, Oregon White Man’s Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains—Stan Hoig—University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO Hoig presents a poignant history of the U.S. government’s attempts to negotiate treaties with the tribes of the Central Plains in the nineteenth century. The author’s research shows how treaty-making, negotiated by peace commissioners and once the most promising method for resolving conflicts without military involvement, degenerated into a deeply flawed system sullied by political deceptions and broken promises. Hoig is professor emeritus at the University of Central Oklahoma, and the author of 20 books. He is an Oklahoma Book Award winner in the children/young adult category for A Capitol for the Nation. Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste Joni L. Kinsey—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Both a visual feast and an authoritative treatise, this book sheds new light on how artistic portrayals of the West contributed to our national identify. Joni L. Kinsey is associate professor of art history at the University of Iowa and author of Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West. Kinsey was raised in Tulsa, home of the Gilcrease Museum, which holds the largest collection of works by Moran. OKC: Second Time Around—Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money Full Circle Press, Oklahoma City, OK In writing this work, Lackmeyer and Money have made the transition from deadline journalists to thoughtful chroniclers of a city’s commitment to recreate itself. The narrative pulls together the almost serendipitous combination of circumstances that resulted in today’s growing, vibrant, downtown Oklahoma City. Money is assistant city editor at The Oklahoman, while Lackmeyer writes a weekly column, “Main Street,” for the paper’s business section. These award-winning journalists have followed Oklahoma City’s rebirth pangs since they were lads. From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music—John Wooley published by Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa, OK Commissioned by the Oklahoma Arts Institute, this is a sweeping history of the major musical trends and genres that have come out of Oklahoma to the world. Wooley has been writing about Oklahoma music for more than a quarter of a century, and he is the only writer inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. He is a journalist, novelist, scriptwriter, historian, and … you got it! … a musician. Wooley’s novel Dark Within was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. Children/Young Adult Chuck’s Truck—Peggy Perry Anderson Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, Boston, MA When too many barnyard friends climb in to go to town, Chuck’s truck breaks down—but handyman Hugh knows just what to do! Anderson has written and illustrated several picture books for children, including those featuring the indomitable Joe the frog. Her book We Go in a Circle was a 2005 Oklahoma Book Award finalist. She is a full-time elementary school art teacher and mother of three living in Owasso, Oklahoma. Golden—Jennifer Lee Barnes—Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY At Emory High School, there are two kinds of people: those who matter… and those who don’t. When Lissy James moves from California to Oklahoma, she finds herself in the middle of a teenage nightmare: a social scene to rival a Hollywood movie. It soon becomes apparent there is something more evil than the A-crowd lurking in the classrooms. A native Oklahoman, Barnes is a graduate of Yale University. She wrote Golden at the age of nineteen. Her second novel is due out this year. Trash—Sharon Darrow—Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA Boy and Sissy are accustomed to feeling like trash: their mother discarded them—never even bothered to name them—and a foul wind blows them from one foster home to the next. In this unique narrative of poems, Boy and Sissy tell the world who they really are. Darrow is the author of picture books, young adult novels, creative non-fiction and poetry. She is on the faculty of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College. She received the Oklahoma Book Award for children/young adult in 2004 for The Painters of Lexieville. Paradise on the Prairie—Molly Levite Griffis—Eakin Press, Austin, Texas Griffis’s tribute to the Centennial is a blend of historical facts and fiction. New York orphan Johnny Pickett is put on a train and brought to the wilds of the Twin Territories. As Johnny struggles to find a home, Oklahoma and Indian Territories struggle to become a state. A two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner, Griffis is the author of eight books. She has taught school in every level from third grade through college, has owned and operated a bookstore, and is a favorite speaker at schools across the state. She lives in Norman. H is for Honor: A Military Family Alphabet—Devin Scillian Published by Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI This picture book pays respect to the United States Military from A (for American Armed Forces) to Z (for Zulu, a word used in radio communication). Author, musician and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, Scillian is the son of a career military officer. He grew up all over the world but considers Oklahoma home. Formerly an anchor for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, he now anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. His book, S is for Sooner: An American Alphabet was a 2004 finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in the children/young adult category. Knights of the Hill Country—Tim Tharp Random House Children’s Books, New York, NY Welcome to Kennisaw, Oklahoma, where Friday night football ranks next to God and country and sometimes comes in first. The Kennisaw Knights are going for their fifth-straight undefeated season and if they win they will be legends. This is the story of a boy who must decide for himself the true meaning of sportsmanship and loyalty. Tharp grew up in Midwest City, home of the Bombers. He teaches in the Humanities Department at Rose State College. His first novel, Falling Dark, was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and was a finalist in the fiction category for the Oklahoma Book Awards. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom—Tim Tingle Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Tx A river called Bok Chitto cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, the river formed a boundary between the Choctaw lands and the plantations. If a slave escaped from the plantations and made his way across Bok Chitto, he was free. Tim Tingle is a popular presenter at storytelling and folklore festivals across America. He is especially well known for his stories about his native Choctaws. Tim was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 2004 for Walking the Choctaw Road, and the book was the second title selected for Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma. Fiction Black Silk Handkerchief—D. L. Birchfield—University of Oklahoma Press In this fast-paced novel, a hard-luck Oklahoma Choctaw lawyer decides that doing things on Indian time just isn’t compatible with practicing law. He tries his luck as a photographer and finds himself at the center of the biggest manhunt in Colorado’s history. Birchfield, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, won the Western Spur Award for his novel Field of Honor. He is a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Everlasting—Carol Johnson—Hawk Publishing Group, Tulsa Forced into marriage to a man twenty years her senior, Vada Priddy finds herself at odds with her new husband, his children, and the hardscrabble existence she has to endure. In spite of the adversities, she manages to forge a decent life, and she grows into a strong Oklahoma woman. This warmhearted novel gives readers the inspirational experience of mid-twentieth century Everywoman and her daily struggles. Johnson teaches writing at Tulsa Community College and lives in Mounds. This is her first novel. Magic Time—Doug Marlette Sara Crichton Books/Farrar, Staraus and Giroux, New York, NY In this page-turner, a 1991 visit to his Mississippi hometown forces a New York City newspaper columnist to re-examine events of the Freedom Summer of 1964. The story moves between New York City, the New South of the early 1990s and Mississippi’s civil rights revolution of 1964. Marlette is a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist and is on the staff of the Tulsa World. The Southeast Booksellers Association gave his first novel, The Bridge, its 2002 Book Award for Fiction. The Piano Man—Marcia Preston—Mira Books, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada Looking for meaning in the tragic death of her teenage son, Claire O’Neal seeks out the person who received her son’s heart. When she finds the heart recipient, she discovers a cynical, chain-smoking, divorced man with no will to live. Claire is driven with a purpose that borders on obsession to help the aimless young man. As two lost, lonely people find hope, they learn that life’s most beautiful music comes from the heart. Preston is the winner of the 2004 Mary Higgins Clark Award for Suspense Fiction and the Oklahoma Book Award in fiction for Song of the Bones. She lives in Edmond. Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush—Sheldon Russell University of Oklahoma Press Readers of Russell’s latest work return to the early days of Oklahoma Territory where frontier men and women gamble everything to find their future. In recounting the rise and fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, the author immerses us in the lives of his characters, whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier. Russell grew up on a cattle ranch in the Gloss Mountains of northwestern Oklahoma. He resides in historic Guthrie, where he and wife Nancy, a sculptor, own and operate the Double Starr Studio and Gallery. The Limehouse Text—Will Thomas—Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, New York, NY British detective team Cyrus Barker and his Welsh assistant Thomas Llewelyn join up again to take readers through the gritty streets of turn-of-the-century London in this exciting mystery. This time, the adventure centers on an ancient Chinese book on martial arts. Some parties are willing to kill in order to gain its secrets. Will Thomas’s first book, Some Danger Involved, received the Oklahoma Book Award in 2005. A scholar of the Victorian era, Thomas and his wife, Julie, live in Tulsa, where he works as a librarian. Congratulations Clifton Taulbert from the Oklahoma Heritage Association 2007 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient www.oklahomaheritage.com Skip McKinstry Design Finalist You Know We Belong to the Land: The Centennial History of Oklahoma Oklahoma Heritage Association THE LEADER IN PUBLISHING OKLAHOMA’S HISTORY www.oklahomaheritage.com Congratulations The Tulsa Library Trust salutes Clifton Taulbert Arrell Gibson Lifetime Acheivement Award honoree and all of tonight’s finalists and honorees. Clifton H. Taulbert Recipient of the 2007 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Clifton Taulbert is probably best known for his memoir Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, about his experience of growing up in the racially charged Mississippi Delta during the civil rights movement. In his picture of tiny Glen Allen, Mississippi, Taulbert focuses more on the bonds of family and community—“the front porch people”—rather than the growing conflict between black and white. The work is also a love song to the family that nourished him and protected him from a world of hatred and segregation. Publishers Weekly described the book as a “funny, sweet, touching memoir.” Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored was made into a popular motion picture. A second memoir, The Last Train North, continues his experiences after high school, when he left Mississippi and traveled to St. Louis for “the good life.” This book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Rounding out the trilogy is Watching our Crops Come In, which covers Taulbert’s time in the United States Air Force, and a revealing return trip to his Mississippi home town. Other non-fiction books include, Eight Habits of the Heart, The Journey Home: A Father’s Gift to His Son, and Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators. Taulbert has also written three children’s books: Little Cliff and the Porch People, Little Cliff’s First Day of School, and Little Cliff and the Cold Place. He also is the founder and director of the Building Community Institute located in Tulsa. A popular lecturer and motivator, he speaks throughout the world on the need to create an environment branded by respect, affirmation, and inclusion. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to recognize a body of work. This award was named for the Norman, Oklahoma, historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Fiction 1990 • Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister 1991 • Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit 1992 • Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark 1993 • Rilla Askew, Strange Business 1994 • Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist 1995 • William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice 1996 • Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is 1997 • Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead 1998 • Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat 1999 • Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon 2000 • William Bernhardt, Dark Justice 2001 • Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead 2002 • Douglas Kelley, The Captain’s Wife 2003 • Diane Glancy, The Mask Maker: A Novel 2004 • M.K. Preston, Song of the Bones 2005 • Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved 2006 • David Kent, The Black Jack Conspiracy Non-Fiction 1990 • Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick 1991 • Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant 1992 • David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State 1993 • Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators 1994 • J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever 1995 • Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton 1996 • William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm 1997 • Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass 1998 • John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin 1999 • Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae 2000 • Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West 2001 • David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory 2002 • Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor; Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003 • Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape 2004 • Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity 2005 • Ed Cray, Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie 2006 • Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time Children/Young Adult 1990 • Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and It’s Kin 1991 • Stan Hoig, A Capital for the Nation 1992 • Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy 1993 • Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie 1994 • Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer 1995 • Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code 1996 • Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl 1997 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Stone Water 1998 • S. L. Rottman, Hero 1999 • Barbara Snow Gilbert, Broken Chords 2000 • Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net 2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas, Hush Songs 2002 • Molly Levite Griffis, The Rachel Resistance 2003 • Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story 2004 • Children—Una Belle Townsend, Grady’s in the Silo Young Adult—Sharon Darrow, The Painters of Lexieville 2005 • Children—Joyce Carol Thomas, The Gospel Cinderella Young Adult—Molly Levite Griffis, Simon Says 2006 • Anna Myers, Assassin Poetry 1990 • William Kistler, The Elizabeth Sequence 1992 • Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust 1993 • Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War 1994 • Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation 1995 • Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky 1996 • Francine Ringold, The Trouble with Voices 1997 • Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli’s The Blazing Lights of the Sun 1998 • Betty Shipley, Somebody Say Amen 1999 • Mark Cox, Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone 2000 • N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House 2001 • Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire 2002 • Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems 2003 • Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 2004 • Laura Apol, Crossing the Ladder of Sun 2005 • Francine Ringold, Still Dancing 2006 • Leanne Howe, Evidence of Red Previous Design/Illustration 1990 • David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson 1991 • Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens 1992 • Joe Williams, Woolaroc 1993 • Design—Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas 1994 • Deloss McGraw, Fish Story 1995 • Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love 1996 • Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony 1997 • Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass 1998 • Carol Haralson, Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art 1999 • David Fitzgerald, Bison: Monarch of the Plains 2000 • Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma 2001 • Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 2002 • Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003 • Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals 2004 • Design—Scott Horton and Jim Argo, Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company Illustration—Kandy Radzinski, S is for Sooner 2005 • Carol Haralson, A History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion 2006 • Design—Carol Haralson, Home: Native People in the Southwest Illustration—Jon Goodell, Mother, Mother, I Want Another Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award 1990 • Daniel Boorstin—Librarian of Congress Emeritus—native of Tulsa 1991 • Tony Hillerman—award winning mystery writer—native of Sacred Heart 1992 • Savoie Lottinville—Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years 1993 • Harold Keith—Newbery Award winning children's author—Norman 1994 • N. Scott Momaday—Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author—native of Lawton 1995 • R.A. Lafferty—Hugo Award winning author—Tulsa 1996 • John Hope Franklin—historian—native of Rentiesville 1997 • S.E. Hinton—author of young adult novels—Tulsa 1998 • Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman 1999 • Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa 2000 • Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha 2001 • Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City 2002 • World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman 2003 • Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa 2004 • Carolyn Hart—award winning mystery writer—Oklahoma City 2005 • C.J. Cherryh—Hugo Award winning author—Oklahoma City 2006 • Bob Burke—Oklahoma historian—Oklahoma City Ralph Ellison Award 1995 • Ralph Ellison National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City 1997 • Angie Debo “First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall 1999 • Melvin Tolson poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston 2000 • Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko 2002 • John Berryman poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester 2004 • Lynn Riggs—playwright and screenwriter—Claremore 2005 • Woody Guthrie author, illustrator, and songwriter—Okemah 2006 • John Joseph Mathews Osage novelist and historian—Pawhuska Winners Read About It Congratulates all of the 2007 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Tune into Read About It on your Cox Cable local channel The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2007 competition Keith Allen Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies Adrienne Butler Terry Collins Julie Dill Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Dee Fisher Gerald Hibbs Carol Davis Koss Sharon Martin Louisa McCune-Elmore Raymond D. Munkres Kitty Pittman Byron Price Richard Rouillard Diane Seebass Kristin Sorocco Laurie Sundborg William R. Struby Leah Taylor Una Belle Townsend Maria Verez Revere Young The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals Barnes and Noble Best of Books, Edmond Center for the Book in the Library of Congress The Chickasaw Nation Full Circle Books Rodger Harris, Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society Fred Marvel, Photographer Metropolitan Library System Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Heritage Association Pioneer Library System Tulsa Library Trust University of Oklahoma Press Special thanks to... Sue Stees, Ceremony Chair, and committee members M.J. Van Deventer, Kitty Pittman, Diane Seebass, and B.J. Williams Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Glenda Carlile, Connie Armstrong, Michael O’Hasson, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young Project Highlights The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and its Friends support group have participated in several events in the last year. Many exciting events are an-ticipated in the coming months. Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma—The Center is proud to be a sponsor of this statewide reading and discussion program. Rilla Askew is looking forward to meeting readers across Oklahoma, and discussing her book Fire in Beulah throughout 2007. As a Centennial project, this will be the final year for Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma. Oklahoma Author Database—At long last, Oklahoma author information is being collected in a database and is available for use by libraries, schools and individuals. Log on to www.crossroads. odl.state.ok.us, and click “collections” and “authors” to see this work-in-progress. Authors in Libraries—The Center has been awarded a grant by Inasmuch Foundation to send book award finalists to libraries in rural communities during the Centennial year. Letters About Literature is a contest co-sponsored with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and Target Corporation where students write a letter to an author, living or dead, telling how a book has influenced his or her life. Kids Caught Reading is an annual event that the Center has been pleased to participate in for several years. Friends of the Center will again give $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are “caught reading” in their spare time. For the last five years the Center has participated in the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book president M. J. Van Deventer and OCB execu-tive director Glenda Carlile were fortunate to attend the festival last fall, promoting our state and the its authors. The Friends of the Center for the Book provided funds to sponsor a speaker at the 2006 Oklahoma Library Association annual conference and plan to participate again in 2007. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is pleased to participate in the Red Dirt Book Festival in Shawnee from November 2–3, 2007, and in the Oklahoma Centennial Book Festival to be held at Oklahoma City University on May 19, 2007. Information is available for membership to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book— please call 405–522–3575. The Staff of Full Circle Bookstore congratulates Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money, authors of OKC Second Time Around: A Renaissance Story, on their selection as finalists in the Non- Fiction category; and designer Carl Brune on his selection as a finalist in the Design/ Illustration category. $39.95, hardcover with jacket Bookstore Connie Armstrong—Norman Kirk Bjornsgaard—Norman Bettye Black—Langston Bob Burke—Oklahoma City Glenda Carlile—Oklahoma City David Clark—Norman Betty Crow—Altus Louix Escobar-Matute—Tulsa Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang Wayne Hanway—McAlester Julie Hovis—Edmond Karen Klinka—Oklahoma City Susan McVey—Oklahoma City Raymond D. Munkres—Midwest City Karen Neurohr—Stillwater Kitty Pittman—Oklahoma City Marcia Preston—Edmond Judy Randle—Tulsa Diane Seebass—Tulsa Kristin Sorocco—Oklahoma City Sue Stees—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa Jane Taylor—Edmond William R. Young—Oklahoma City Friends of the Center The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501–c-3 organization. The Friends is a cultural and educational corporation to advance and promote the role of the book and reading in Oklahoma. The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book supports and further enhances the programs and projects of the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. A volunteer board of directors from across the state governs the Friends. President— M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City Vice-President— Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Secretary—Gini Moore Campbell—Oklahoma City Treasurer—Gerald Hibbs—Oklahoma City Immediate Past-President— B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb 405–522–3575 200 NE 18 Street Oklahoma City OK 73105–3298 The 2007 Oklahoma Book Awards are sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. The 2007 Oklahoma Book Awards are sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book and the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb 405-522-3575 200 NE 18 Street Oklahoma City OK 73105-3298 |
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Literary prizes--Oklahoma Oklahoma Book Awards |
Description | Program of the Oklahoma Book Awards. |
Physical Description | 24 p.; 22 cm. |
Place of Publication | Oklahoma City, OK |
Publisher | Oklahoma Center for the Book |
Publication Date | 2007 |
Source | Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Collection, Vertical File |
Copyright and Permissions | Copyright of this digital resource, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, 2011. For further information regarding use please consult the Copyright and Permissions page, http://www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/shell/rights.php or contact the holding institution of the digital resource. |
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