Oklahoma Center for the Book. 1991 Oklahoma Book Award Program.

              llonoring ...
Tony Hillerman
Carl Albert
Danney Goble
Linda Hogan
Stan Hoig
Carol Haralson
Sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book
January 19, 1991
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma Center for the Book
Board of Directors
Judy Moody, President
David Clark, Vice-President
Ron Robinson, Secretary
Jan Keene, Treasurer
Ann Hamilton, Executive Director
Robert L. Clark, Jr., Ex-Officio
Dan Blanchard
Gale Bollinger
Jean Brace
Lee Brawner
Glenda Carlile
Phil Dessauer
Lenny Draper
Jonette Ellis
Wayne Felts
Kathryn Fanning
Ken Jackson
Guy Logsdon
Paulette Millichap
Robert T. Motter, Jr.
Roma Lee Porter
Byron Price
Robert Swisher
Sunny Tiedeman
Kenneth Tracy
Marilyn Vesely
You will have a chance to purchase copies
of the winning books following the program.
Authors will be available to autograph your copies.
Oklahoma Book Awards
Welcome ................................... Judy· Moody
President, Oklahoma Center for the Book .
Explanation and History
of the Oklahoma Book Awards . ............. Dan Blanchard
Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Presentation of A wards
Fiction . ................................... Linda Hogan
Mean Spirit
Published by Atheneum
Award presented by Dr. Robert Swisher, Director,
School of Library and Infonnation Studies, University of Oklahoma
Children and Young Adult. ..................... Stan Hoig
A Capital for the Nation
Published by Cobb/ehill Books
Award presented by David Clark, World Literature Today,
University of Oklahoma
Design and Illustration .................... Carol Haralson
Cleora's Kitchens
Published by Council Oaks Books, Ltd.
Award presented by Neil Baldwin, Executive Director,
National Book Foundation
Non-Fiction . ................ Carl Albert and Danney Goble
Little Giant
Published by the University o/Ok/ahoma Press
Award presented by Robert H. Henry, Attorney General of Oklahoma
Arrell Gibson
Lifetime Achievement Award .............. Tony Hillerman
Award presented by Phil Dessauer, Board of Directors,
Oklahoma Center for the Book
Acknowledgements
The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to gratefully
acknowledge these individuals, businesses and foundations for their
assistance with this event. ..
Barna Pie, Ltd.
Bollinger's Bookhouse
Dean Doerr
HBW Associates, Inc.
Barney Hillennan
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
and Western Heritage Center
Neustadt Charitable Foundation
Oklahoma Department
of Libraries
Debra Krittenbrink
Metropolitan Library System
1. R. Montgomery
Public Service Company
ofOkJahoma
Southwestern Bell
Bankcorporation Bill Young
We also gratefully acknowledge the participation of the Okla­homa
Book Award judges ...
Doug Benton
Dan Blanchard
Jean Brace
Bill Cason
David Clark
Genell Dellin
Jonette Ellis
Bettie Estes-Rickner
Kathryn Fanning
Ann Frankland
Sue Galloway
Gayla Goodell
John Goodell
Carol Hamilton
Joan Isom
Bob Motter, Jr.
Byron Price
Ron Robinson
Jim Tolbert
The Oklahoma Book Awards were initiated by the Oklahoma
Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
Books nominated for the awards must have an Oklahoma-based
theme or llave been written by an author who has resided in Okla­homa.
The books nominated this year were published between
September 1, 1989 and September 1, 1990.