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Oklahoma Book Awards
Books and Authors Welcome to the Tenth Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors March 13, 1999 National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City 1999 Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome ...... . .... ... .. . . . ................... .. . . .......... . ........ Liz Codding President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Greetings .. ..... . .. .. . ......... . ............ .. . .. . .. . ... . .. ........... John Y. Cole Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Master of Ceremonies ........ . ... . ......... . . .. ......... . . . ........ . Daniel Blanchard Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Tenth Anniversary Celebration The First Book Award Celebration Aarone Corwin Past Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Presentation of Special Service Awards Past Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Presented by Liz Codding President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Former Executive Directors .. . . . ....... . ... .. .. . . ... .... . ..... Presented by Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Distinguished Service . . . .... .. . . .. .. ... . ........... . .......... Presented by David Clark Chair, Oklahoma Book Award Committee Presentation of Book Awards Poetry .. . ............ . .... . ............................. Presented by Carol Hamilton Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1992 Non-Fiction Award . . .. . .... . ............ . ........ . ... . ..... Presented by Marilyn Geiger Board of Directors, Oklahoma Center for the B,ook ChildrenlYoung Adult Award .. . . ..... . ..... .. .. . . . .... . . . ...... . Presented by Joe Holmes Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Design/Illustration Award .. . ....... . .... . .. .... . .. .. .... . .. ... . . Presented by Kim Doner Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1 996 Fiction Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Presented by Eve K. Sandstrom Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award . . .... ... . ............... . .... . .. . Presented by George Singer Oklahoma Business and Civic Leader You're invited to an after-party! Join us at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place, Immediately following tonight's ceremony Special Service Awards Past Presidents Arrell Gibson (deceased), first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. The center's lifetime achievement award is named for Dr. Gibson, a historian. Dan Blanchard, president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book, 1988-1990 and Master of Ceremonies for nine of the Oklahoma Book Award programs. Director and president of the American Institute of Discussion from 1961 to the present, Blanchard is also co-owner of the Grapevi ne Gallery David Clark, president of the Center from 1992 to 1994. Clark is Associate Editor of the University of Oklahoma's quarterly journal World Literature Today - sponsor of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Puterbaugh Conferences on World Literature. Glenda Carlile, president of the Center from 1994 to 1996. Carli Ie is present executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. She is an author and speaker who was honored in 1997 by the American Association of State and Local History for promoting Oklahoma history. Laurie Sundborg, president of the Center from 1996 to 1998. Sundborg is Adult Resource Coordinator with the Tulsa City-County Library System. She is 1998-99 chairman of the Oklahoma Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, and a board member of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Past Executive Directors Aarone Corwin, first executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Corwin helped the Center get started, and she initiated the Book Awards. She served as Executive Director from 1988 to 1990 and still serves on the board of directors. She is the Federal Programs Coordinator for Choctaw/Nicoma Park Schools. Ann Hamilton, executive director of the Center from 1990 to 1996. Hamilton is editor of the Oklahoma Almanac, the state's "official information source." She is on the Center's board of directors. As program chairman she has produced the videos I and slide presentations for several Book Award dinners. She has been an instructor of communication at the University of Central Oklahoma for seven years. (Special Awards continued on next page) Distinguished Service Awards Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus. Boorstin is founder of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the outreach program which established state centers. Dr. Boorstin grew up in Tulsa. He received the Oklahoma Center's Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. John Y. Cole, Director, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Cole has directed the Center since its beginning in 1977. Under his leadership, the Center has developed a network of 36 affiliated state centers, more than 50 national and civic organizations, and several centers for the study of the history of the book located in academic and research organizations. He is also an author and an authority on the history of the Library of Congress. Robert L. Clark, Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Clark directed his 'staff to apply for establishment of a state center for the book, and ODL has housed the Center since its inception. As ODL director, Clark also serves as the State Archivist and State Records Administrator. Lee Brawner, Director of the Metropolitan Library System. Brawner served on the original advisory board of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. During his 27-year tenure at Metropolitan Library System, he helped the system grow from six to nineteen libraries serving the county. He retires in September of this year. 1999 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Poetry Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone by Mark Cox Cox's first book, Smoulder, won for him a Whiting Writers' Award and a Bread Loaf Fellowship. In Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone, the author explores different types of love, and his homey scenes often feature a twist, lending his poetry a bittersweet quality. Cox directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University. Smoldering by Wendell Graham Subtitled "Poems of Romance," Smoldering is a paean to romantic and erotic love. Graham is currently working on other projects at his home in Oklahoma City, where (the book jacket tells us) "he is visited, occasionally, by a cat named Oreo." Just a Drop in the Bucket by Frederick A. Olds Familial love, nature, pioneers and cowboy days all come into play in Just a Drop in the Bucket. Olds is a "buckeye" by birth and a "Sooner" by choice. He is sculptor of The Wedding, which celebrates the joining of Oklahoma and Indian Territories to form the new State of Oklahoma. The sculpture stands in front of the Oklahoma Territorial Museum in Guthrie. Olds and his wife, Flo, live near Guthrie. Non-Fiction From Oklahoma To Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae by Bob Burke Part of the Oklahoma Trackmaker Series, published by the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Burke brings to life the story of one of Oklahoma's heroes. This is the first biography of Wiley Post. Burke was born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and now practices law and writes books in Oklahoma City. Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West by David Dary Newspapers in the Old West had tremendous influence, oftening directing these societies more than politics. This is an exuberant and evocative account of the roles of journalists and their publications at the turn of the century. Dary is a native of Kansas, and now is head of the H.H. Herbert School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The Cold-and-Hunger Dance by Diane Glancy A bold and stimulating collection of essays, this volume is an imaginative and honest account of journeys to and from the margins of memory, everyday life, and different cultural worlds. Glancy's Cherokee heritage and Christian faith empower her to tell several stories at once. Glancy is an associate professor of English at Macalester College. The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators by Gordon Grice We are brought face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil, in this collection of essays. Grice charts the simple brutality of the lives of the predators found in his rural Oklahoma home. Our Souls to Keep: Black/White Relations in America by George Henderson In this personal and practical look at black/white relations in the United States, Henderson, writing primarily for white Americans, offers a window into black American culture. He discusses race relations frankly and offers practical suggestions for dealing effectively with cultural differences. Henderson is dean of the College of Liberal Studies, and Regents' Professor of Human Relations, Education and Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution 1765-1900 by James L. Huston An examination of beliefs about wealth distribution, leading to the conclusion that ' Americans' earliest economic attitudes were formed during Revolutionary times and remained virtually unchanged until the close of the nineteenth century. Huston is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Family Matters, Tribal Affairs by Carter Revard A moving memoir by one of our most accomplished Native American poets, Revard dedicates these essays to "those who grow, who build, who keep things working, who have always helped and keep on helping." Revard, a Rhodes Scholar, is professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He grew up on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. Revard received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1994 for poetry. Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 by Nigel Anthony Sellars The Industrial Workers of the World (lWW), a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma from the founding of the union in 1905 until its demise in 1930. Sellars describes union efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers. The rise and fall of the IWW in Oklahoma explains much about the failure of the labor movement in the U.S. during the 1920s. Sellars is instructor of history at the University of Oklahoma. Euphemism, Spin, and the Crisis in Organizational Life by Howard F. Stein This book, about deception and self-deception in and beyond the workplace, focuses on the psychological, ethical, cultural, and spiritual dilemmas that cannot be reduced to a mere business crisis. Stein explores the role of euphemism in the official doctrines and public claims of business, including how people experience the trauma of mass layoffs and turmoil in the workplace. Stein is professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. Turning Toward Home: The Art of Jean Richardson by Joan Carpenter Troccoli Art historian Troccoli traces Richardson's development as an artist from her formative period to the present. Included in the volume are more than 250 reproductions of Richardson's paintings, prints, sculpture, and drawings from childhood. Troccoli is deputy director of the Denver Art Museum and a former director of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art in Tulsa. Children!Young Adult The Flimflam Man by Darleen Bailey Beard Beard was inspired by the true story of a flimflam man who bamboozled the town of Wetumka, Oklahoma in 1950. The author lives in Tuttle with her husband, Danny, and their two children, Spencer and Karalee. Broken Chords by Barbara Snow Gilbert Gilbert's first book, Stone Water, won the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award, and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Broken Chords is the story of seventeen-year-old Clara Lorenzo, whose coming-of-age experience occurs during a highly charged, internationally renowed piano competition. This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie Guthrie's celebratory ballad, written toward the end of the great depression, is also a call for justice and dignity for all of America's people. With paintings by Kathy Jakobsen, a tribute by Pete Seeger, and sheet music of the chorus, the book becomes a mixed-media experience for children. The First Starry Night by Joan Shaddox Isom Based on Vincent van Gogh's time in Aries, France, this book tells the story of the painter's friendship with a young boy named Jacques. Through this unique friendship, Jacques learns a new way to look at the world around him. Isom received her B.A. in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her paintings have won awards in the U.S.A. and Europe. Chico & Dan by Harold Keith Keith won the Newberry Medal for Rifles for Watie in 1958. In 1997 he received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Just before the publication of Chico & Dan, Mr. Keith died at the age of ninety-four. He was the author of sixteen books, as well as a noted historian, long distance runner, and barber shop quartet singer. Ethan Between Us by Anna Myers Myers is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award in the children and young adult category. In Ethan Between Us, a jealous young girl betrays her friend, setting in motion a tragic turn of events. A native Oklahoman, Myers lives in Chandler. Rough Waters by S.L. Rottman Mastering the art of survival- physical and emotional- is the theme of this work by former Oklahoma school teacher Rottman. The author received the 1998 Oklahoma Book Award for Hero. She now lives in Colorado Springs. I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas This Ponca City native has won both the National Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. Thomas writes that I Have Heard of a Land "is one story of the journey of African-Americans to a place of hope, a hope connected to the yearning for land-when land was another word for freedom." Design/III ustration I Have Heard of a Land Illustrations by Floyd Cooper Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. Born and raised in Tulsa, Cooper now lives with his wife and children in West Orange, New Jersey. He often returns to Oklahoma, where his family still lives on the farm his great-grandfather staked in a land run. Bison: Monarch of the Plains Photographs by David Fitzgerald Fitzgerald has documented the beauty of Oklahoma thousands of times, and in 1996, received the Outstanding Tourism Contributor award from the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation . Fitzgerald's work is in several public and private collections, including the Oklahoma State Arts Collection and the University of Oklahoma's Museum of Art. Oklahoma Crossroads Photographs by David Fitzgerald The official photographer of Aerospace America, and a contributing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, Fitzgerald was a finalist for the 1994 and 1995 Oklahoma Book Awards for design/illustration. Fitzgerald lives in Oklahoma City. Turning Toward Home: The Art of Jean Richardson Designed by Carol Haralson Haralson is a four-time Oklahoma Book Award winner; she received awards in 1991, 1993, 1997, and 1998. She lived in Tulsa for many years, and now lives in Sedona, Arizona. Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth Illustrations by Michael Wimmer The Chicago Sun- Times has described Wimmer's artwork as "reminiscent of some of Norman Rockwell's best." Wimmer won the 1995 Oklahoma Book Award for design/ illustration for All the Places to Love. He lives with his family in Norman. Fiction Extreme Justice by William Bernhardt The Vancouver Sun has dubbed Bernhardt lithe American equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse and John Mortimer." The bestselling author has made the Book Award's finalist list six times. He won in 1995 for Perfect justice. Bernhardt, wife Kirsten, and children Harry and Alice live in Tulsa. Flutie by Diane Glancy Glancy is a poet, essayist and novelist who has won numerous awards, including the first North American Indian Prose Award and the Capricorn Prize for poetry. In F/utie, a young girl finds her voice amidst a hardscrabble life in western Oklahoma. Glancy is also a finalist this year in the Non-Fiction category. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts Letts' won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award for Where the Heart Is. That book's recent selection for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club has brought national fame to this Oklahoma native. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon is another tale of small-town Oklahoma life, and the healing power of love. The Freshour Cylinders by Speer Morgan Suspense, history, and strong storytelling combine in this book that author Robert Olen Butler calls "a splendid achievement." Action takes place in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Morgan is the author of four novels and a collection of stories. He is currently editor of The Missouri Review. Paradise by Toni Morrison This Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author's Paradise is called lithe strangest and most original book that she has written" by The New Yorker. Morrison's inspiration for this novel was the establishment of Oklahoma's all-black towns during the late nineteenth century. A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Noted as one of America's best young writers, this former University of Central Oklahoma professor won the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award for Names of the Dead. In A World Away, universal truths are revealed in a story of one family's summer during World War II. Michael Wallis Recipient of the 1999 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Few people are as renowned for their writing about Oklahoma, its rich heritage and its people. Michael Wallis's books about our state's history include: • Route 66: The Mother Road • Mankiller: A Chief and Her People • Pretty Boy Floyd: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd • Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum • Beyond the Hills: The Journey of Waite Phillips • Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation • Oklahoma Crossroads (with photographer David Fitzgerald) With his wife Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, he has coauthored Song Dog Diary: 66 Stories from the Road, and Greetings from the Mother Road: Route 66 Postcards. Although not an Oklahoma native, Wallis considers himself an adopted "Okie." Born in Missouri, he and his wife moved to Tulsa in 1982. Wallis's books have been nominated for the National Book Award and on three occasions for the Pulitzer Prize. He has won other prestigious awards and honors, including the 1994 Lynn Riggs Award from Rogers State University in Claremore. In 1994, he was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame. Also in 1996, he became the first recipient of the Steinbeck Award, presented by the National Historic Route 66 Federation to honor Route 66 preservationists. 'Michael and Suzanne have been credited with helping revitalize "America's Main Street" by leading Route 66 tours for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wallis considers his latest book to be his biggest and his best. Ten years in the making, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West will be officially released in Ponca City on March 27. In 1999, Wallis will be inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year as recognition for a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Oklahoma Center for the Book Officers and Board of Directors Liz Codding is president. Liz is employed at Dunlap Codding and Rogers Law Firm. She has previously been a school librarian, and a librarian for the Oklahoma County Metropolitan Library System. She has been a member of the Center's Board of Directors for eight years. B.J. Williams is vice-president. B.J. is host of Read About It, the television program sponsored by the Metropolitan Library System. She often highlights Oklahoma authors on her program, and annually interviews book award finalists. Kim Doner is secretary. She is an illustrator from Tulsa, who won the Design/Illustration award at the 1996 Oklahoma Book Awards for Green Snake Ceremony. She has been the artist for the Department of Libraries' annual summer reading program for the past three years. Gerry Willingham is treasurer. She is retired from the Putnam City School District, where she served as director of the Library Media program. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, S01-c-3 organization serving as an outreach program of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Oklahoma's Center, begun in 1986, was the fourth state center formed. The mission of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is to promote the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; to promote the literary heritage of the state; and to encourage reading for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is governed by a volunteer board of directors from across the state. They are listed below, except for officers named above. Hannah Atkins, Oklahoma City William Bernhardt, Tulsa Gale Bollinger, Oklahoma City Diane Canavan, Shawnee Glenda Carlile, Oklahoma City David Clark, Norman Robert L. Clark Jr., Oklahoma City Aarone Corwin, Midwest City Nance Diamond, Shawnee Lennie Draper, Norman Julia Fresonke, Edmond Marilyn Geiger, Norman Ann Hamilton, Edmond Julie Hovis, Edmond Ken Jackson, Tulsa Bill McCloud, Pryor Howard Meredith, Oklahoma City Teresa Miller, Tulsa Paulette Millichap, Tulsa Joyce Pipps, Shawnee Marcia Preston, Edmond Eve K. Sandstrom, Lawton Dean Sims, Tulsa John Wooley, Tulsa William R. Young, Oklahoma City tO KLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK Project Highlights, 1998-99 The Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries has participated in several events in the past twelve months, and has made commitments for events later this year. My Favorite Poem was a project sponsored by Nimrod literary magazine in Tulsa in May of 1998. The Center provided funds and many members attended the poetry readings by business and civic leaders at Border Books. The Center assisted with exhibits and book signings by Oklahoma authors at Oklahoma City's Crossroads Mall in November of 1998, as part of the Oklahoma County literacy Fair. Kids Caught Reading is an annual activity of the Ce nter, and is part of Oklahoma's Celebration of Reading (formerly known as National Young Readers Day). The Center will once again give $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are caught reading in their spare time. The prizes will be presented at the Celebration of Reading on April 9, 1999 at the Lazy-E Arena. j In another program which involves children, the center is cosponsoring, for the fifth year, the ~etters about literature competition. Nationally promoted by Weekly Reader and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, students in grades 6 through 12 are asked to write letters to the author of a book that affected them in some way. The Center awards a total of $250 to writers of the top five letters. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is also providing funds to the Oklahoma Library Association to sponsor author Billie Letts' presentation at the association 's Friday night banquet during their annual conference, March 24-27, 1999. The Center continues to provide authors to libraries and schools, and hopes to initiate an Oklahoma Authors database on the organization's website during 1999. The Centers website address is www.odl.state.ok.uslocb The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 1999 competition. They were: Dan Blanchard Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies David Clark Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Karyn Gilman Christopher Givans Ann Hamilton Rosemary Hardy Gayle Jones Carol Davis Koss Bill McCloud Louisa McCune Howard Meredith Donna Norvell Dee Pierce Byron Price Diane See bass Dewayne Smoot William Struby Leah Taylor Jim Tolbert Mary Woodman The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Best of Books, Edmond Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Dunlap, Codding and Rogers Patent Law Firm Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library System Jerry and Ruth Murphey National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Hilton Hotel Northwest Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Prairie Wind Writers, Inc. Steve's Books, Tulsa Very special thanks to ... Laurie Sundborg, Liz Codding, Kim Donner, Marcia Preston and Gail Bollinger of the ceremony committee. Proceeds from tonight's book sales will benefit the Oklahoma Center for the Book 200 Northeast 18th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105·3298 http://www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb/ 1·800·522·8116
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Oklahoma Book Awards Books and Authors Welcome to the Tenth Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors March 13, 1999 National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City 1999 Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome ...... . .... ... .. . . . ................... .. . . .......... . ........ Liz Codding President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Greetings .. ..... . .. .. . ......... . ............ .. . .. . .. . ... . .. ........... John Y. Cole Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Master of Ceremonies ........ . ... . ......... . . .. ......... . . . ........ . Daniel Blanchard Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Tenth Anniversary Celebration The First Book Award Celebration Aarone Corwin Past Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Presentation of Special Service Awards Past Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Presented by Liz Codding President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Former Executive Directors .. . . . ....... . ... .. .. . . ... .... . ..... Presented by Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Distinguished Service . . . .... .. . . .. .. ... . ........... . .......... Presented by David Clark Chair, Oklahoma Book Award Committee Presentation of Book Awards Poetry .. . ............ . .... . ............................. Presented by Carol Hamilton Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1992 Non-Fiction Award . . .. . .... . ............ . ........ . ... . ..... Presented by Marilyn Geiger Board of Directors, Oklahoma Center for the B,ook ChildrenlYoung Adult Award .. . . ..... . ..... .. .. . . . .... . . . ...... . Presented by Joe Holmes Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Design/Illustration Award .. . ....... . .... . .. .... . .. .. .... . .. ... . . Presented by Kim Doner Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1 996 Fiction Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Presented by Eve K. Sandstrom Oklahoma Book Award Medalist, 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award . . .... ... . ............... . .... . .. . Presented by George Singer Oklahoma Business and Civic Leader You're invited to an after-party! Join us at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place, Immediately following tonight's ceremony Special Service Awards Past Presidents Arrell Gibson (deceased), first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. The center's lifetime achievement award is named for Dr. Gibson, a historian. Dan Blanchard, president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book, 1988-1990 and Master of Ceremonies for nine of the Oklahoma Book Award programs. Director and president of the American Institute of Discussion from 1961 to the present, Blanchard is also co-owner of the Grapevi ne Gallery David Clark, president of the Center from 1992 to 1994. Clark is Associate Editor of the University of Oklahoma's quarterly journal World Literature Today - sponsor of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Puterbaugh Conferences on World Literature. Glenda Carlile, president of the Center from 1994 to 1996. Carli Ie is present executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. She is an author and speaker who was honored in 1997 by the American Association of State and Local History for promoting Oklahoma history. Laurie Sundborg, president of the Center from 1996 to 1998. Sundborg is Adult Resource Coordinator with the Tulsa City-County Library System. She is 1998-99 chairman of the Oklahoma Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, and a board member of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Past Executive Directors Aarone Corwin, first executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Corwin helped the Center get started, and she initiated the Book Awards. She served as Executive Director from 1988 to 1990 and still serves on the board of directors. She is the Federal Programs Coordinator for Choctaw/Nicoma Park Schools. Ann Hamilton, executive director of the Center from 1990 to 1996. Hamilton is editor of the Oklahoma Almanac, the state's "official information source." She is on the Center's board of directors. As program chairman she has produced the videos I and slide presentations for several Book Award dinners. She has been an instructor of communication at the University of Central Oklahoma for seven years. (Special Awards continued on next page) Distinguished Service Awards Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus. Boorstin is founder of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the outreach program which established state centers. Dr. Boorstin grew up in Tulsa. He received the Oklahoma Center's Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990. John Y. Cole, Director, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Cole has directed the Center since its beginning in 1977. Under his leadership, the Center has developed a network of 36 affiliated state centers, more than 50 national and civic organizations, and several centers for the study of the history of the book located in academic and research organizations. He is also an author and an authority on the history of the Library of Congress. Robert L. Clark, Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Clark directed his 'staff to apply for establishment of a state center for the book, and ODL has housed the Center since its inception. As ODL director, Clark also serves as the State Archivist and State Records Administrator. Lee Brawner, Director of the Metropolitan Library System. Brawner served on the original advisory board of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. During his 27-year tenure at Metropolitan Library System, he helped the system grow from six to nineteen libraries serving the county. He retires in September of this year. 1999 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists Poetry Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone by Mark Cox Cox's first book, Smoulder, won for him a Whiting Writers' Award and a Bread Loaf Fellowship. In Thirty-Seven Years from the Stone, the author explores different types of love, and his homey scenes often feature a twist, lending his poetry a bittersweet quality. Cox directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University. Smoldering by Wendell Graham Subtitled "Poems of Romance," Smoldering is a paean to romantic and erotic love. Graham is currently working on other projects at his home in Oklahoma City, where (the book jacket tells us) "he is visited, occasionally, by a cat named Oreo." Just a Drop in the Bucket by Frederick A. Olds Familial love, nature, pioneers and cowboy days all come into play in Just a Drop in the Bucket. Olds is a "buckeye" by birth and a "Sooner" by choice. He is sculptor of The Wedding, which celebrates the joining of Oklahoma and Indian Territories to form the new State of Oklahoma. The sculpture stands in front of the Oklahoma Territorial Museum in Guthrie. Olds and his wife, Flo, live near Guthrie. Non-Fiction From Oklahoma To Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae by Bob Burke Part of the Oklahoma Trackmaker Series, published by the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Burke brings to life the story of one of Oklahoma's heroes. This is the first biography of Wiley Post. Burke was born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and now practices law and writes books in Oklahoma City. Red Blood and Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West by David Dary Newspapers in the Old West had tremendous influence, oftening directing these societies more than politics. This is an exuberant and evocative account of the roles of journalists and their publications at the turn of the century. Dary is a native of Kansas, and now is head of the H.H. Herbert School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The Cold-and-Hunger Dance by Diane Glancy A bold and stimulating collection of essays, this volume is an imaginative and honest account of journeys to and from the margins of memory, everyday life, and different cultural worlds. Glancy's Cherokee heritage and Christian faith empower her to tell several stories at once. Glancy is an associate professor of English at Macalester College. The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators by Gordon Grice We are brought face to fanged face with the inadequacy of our distinctions between normal and abnormal, dead and alive, innocent and evil, in this collection of essays. Grice charts the simple brutality of the lives of the predators found in his rural Oklahoma home. Our Souls to Keep: Black/White Relations in America by George Henderson In this personal and practical look at black/white relations in the United States, Henderson, writing primarily for white Americans, offers a window into black American culture. He discusses race relations frankly and offers practical suggestions for dealing effectively with cultural differences. Henderson is dean of the College of Liberal Studies, and Regents' Professor of Human Relations, Education and Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution 1765-1900 by James L. Huston An examination of beliefs about wealth distribution, leading to the conclusion that ' Americans' earliest economic attitudes were formed during Revolutionary times and remained virtually unchanged until the close of the nineteenth century. Huston is an associate professor of history at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Family Matters, Tribal Affairs by Carter Revard A moving memoir by one of our most accomplished Native American poets, Revard dedicates these essays to "those who grow, who build, who keep things working, who have always helped and keep on helping." Revard, a Rhodes Scholar, is professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He grew up on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. Revard received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1994 for poetry. Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 by Nigel Anthony Sellars The Industrial Workers of the World (lWW), a radical labor union, played an important role in Oklahoma from the founding of the union in 1905 until its demise in 1930. Sellars describes union efforts to organize migratory harvest hands and oil-field workers. The rise and fall of the IWW in Oklahoma explains much about the failure of the labor movement in the U.S. during the 1920s. Sellars is instructor of history at the University of Oklahoma. Euphemism, Spin, and the Crisis in Organizational Life by Howard F. Stein This book, about deception and self-deception in and beyond the workplace, focuses on the psychological, ethical, cultural, and spiritual dilemmas that cannot be reduced to a mere business crisis. Stein explores the role of euphemism in the official doctrines and public claims of business, including how people experience the trauma of mass layoffs and turmoil in the workplace. Stein is professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. Turning Toward Home: The Art of Jean Richardson by Joan Carpenter Troccoli Art historian Troccoli traces Richardson's development as an artist from her formative period to the present. Included in the volume are more than 250 reproductions of Richardson's paintings, prints, sculpture, and drawings from childhood. Troccoli is deputy director of the Denver Art Museum and a former director of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art in Tulsa. Children!Young Adult The Flimflam Man by Darleen Bailey Beard Beard was inspired by the true story of a flimflam man who bamboozled the town of Wetumka, Oklahoma in 1950. The author lives in Tuttle with her husband, Danny, and their two children, Spencer and Karalee. Broken Chords by Barbara Snow Gilbert Gilbert's first book, Stone Water, won the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award, and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Broken Chords is the story of seventeen-year-old Clara Lorenzo, whose coming-of-age experience occurs during a highly charged, internationally renowed piano competition. This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie Guthrie's celebratory ballad, written toward the end of the great depression, is also a call for justice and dignity for all of America's people. With paintings by Kathy Jakobsen, a tribute by Pete Seeger, and sheet music of the chorus, the book becomes a mixed-media experience for children. The First Starry Night by Joan Shaddox Isom Based on Vincent van Gogh's time in Aries, France, this book tells the story of the painter's friendship with a young boy named Jacques. Through this unique friendship, Jacques learns a new way to look at the world around him. Isom received her B.A. in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her paintings have won awards in the U.S.A. and Europe. Chico & Dan by Harold Keith Keith won the Newberry Medal for Rifles for Watie in 1958. In 1997 he received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Just before the publication of Chico & Dan, Mr. Keith died at the age of ninety-four. He was the author of sixteen books, as well as a noted historian, long distance runner, and barber shop quartet singer. Ethan Between Us by Anna Myers Myers is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award in the children and young adult category. In Ethan Between Us, a jealous young girl betrays her friend, setting in motion a tragic turn of events. A native Oklahoman, Myers lives in Chandler. Rough Waters by S.L. Rottman Mastering the art of survival- physical and emotional- is the theme of this work by former Oklahoma school teacher Rottman. The author received the 1998 Oklahoma Book Award for Hero. She now lives in Colorado Springs. I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas This Ponca City native has won both the National Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. Thomas writes that I Have Heard of a Land "is one story of the journey of African-Americans to a place of hope, a hope connected to the yearning for land-when land was another word for freedom." Design/III ustration I Have Heard of a Land Illustrations by Floyd Cooper Cooper received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. Born and raised in Tulsa, Cooper now lives with his wife and children in West Orange, New Jersey. He often returns to Oklahoma, where his family still lives on the farm his great-grandfather staked in a land run. Bison: Monarch of the Plains Photographs by David Fitzgerald Fitzgerald has documented the beauty of Oklahoma thousands of times, and in 1996, received the Outstanding Tourism Contributor award from the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation . Fitzgerald's work is in several public and private collections, including the Oklahoma State Arts Collection and the University of Oklahoma's Museum of Art. Oklahoma Crossroads Photographs by David Fitzgerald The official photographer of Aerospace America, and a contributing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, Fitzgerald was a finalist for the 1994 and 1995 Oklahoma Book Awards for design/illustration. Fitzgerald lives in Oklahoma City. Turning Toward Home: The Art of Jean Richardson Designed by Carol Haralson Haralson is a four-time Oklahoma Book Award winner; she received awards in 1991, 1993, 1997, and 1998. She lived in Tulsa for many years, and now lives in Sedona, Arizona. Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth Illustrations by Michael Wimmer The Chicago Sun- Times has described Wimmer's artwork as "reminiscent of some of Norman Rockwell's best." Wimmer won the 1995 Oklahoma Book Award for design/ illustration for All the Places to Love. He lives with his family in Norman. Fiction Extreme Justice by William Bernhardt The Vancouver Sun has dubbed Bernhardt lithe American equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse and John Mortimer." The bestselling author has made the Book Award's finalist list six times. He won in 1995 for Perfect justice. Bernhardt, wife Kirsten, and children Harry and Alice live in Tulsa. Flutie by Diane Glancy Glancy is a poet, essayist and novelist who has won numerous awards, including the first North American Indian Prose Award and the Capricorn Prize for poetry. In F/utie, a young girl finds her voice amidst a hardscrabble life in western Oklahoma. Glancy is also a finalist this year in the Non-Fiction category. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts Letts' won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award for Where the Heart Is. That book's recent selection for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club has brought national fame to this Oklahoma native. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon is another tale of small-town Oklahoma life, and the healing power of love. The Freshour Cylinders by Speer Morgan Suspense, history, and strong storytelling combine in this book that author Robert Olen Butler calls "a splendid achievement." Action takes place in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Morgan is the author of four novels and a collection of stories. He is currently editor of The Missouri Review. Paradise by Toni Morrison This Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author's Paradise is called lithe strangest and most original book that she has written" by The New Yorker. Morrison's inspiration for this novel was the establishment of Oklahoma's all-black towns during the late nineteenth century. A World Away by Stewart O'Nan Noted as one of America's best young writers, this former University of Central Oklahoma professor won the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award for Names of the Dead. In A World Away, universal truths are revealed in a story of one family's summer during World War II. Michael Wallis Recipient of the 1999 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Few people are as renowned for their writing about Oklahoma, its rich heritage and its people. Michael Wallis's books about our state's history include: • Route 66: The Mother Road • Mankiller: A Chief and Her People • Pretty Boy Floyd: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd • Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum • Beyond the Hills: The Journey of Waite Phillips • Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation • Oklahoma Crossroads (with photographer David Fitzgerald) With his wife Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, he has coauthored Song Dog Diary: 66 Stories from the Road, and Greetings from the Mother Road: Route 66 Postcards. Although not an Oklahoma native, Wallis considers himself an adopted "Okie." Born in Missouri, he and his wife moved to Tulsa in 1982. Wallis's books have been nominated for the National Book Award and on three occasions for the Pulitzer Prize. He has won other prestigious awards and honors, including the 1994 Lynn Riggs Award from Rogers State University in Claremore. In 1994, he was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Professional Writers Hall of Fame. Also in 1996, he became the first recipient of the Steinbeck Award, presented by the National Historic Route 66 Federation to honor Route 66 preservationists. 'Michael and Suzanne have been credited with helping revitalize "America's Main Street" by leading Route 66 tours for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wallis considers his latest book to be his biggest and his best. Ten years in the making, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West will be officially released in Ponca City on March 27. In 1999, Wallis will be inducted into the Missouri Writers Hall of Fame. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year as recognition for a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Oklahoma Center for the Book Officers and Board of Directors Liz Codding is president. Liz is employed at Dunlap Codding and Rogers Law Firm. She has previously been a school librarian, and a librarian for the Oklahoma County Metropolitan Library System. She has been a member of the Center's Board of Directors for eight years. B.J. Williams is vice-president. B.J. is host of Read About It, the television program sponsored by the Metropolitan Library System. She often highlights Oklahoma authors on her program, and annually interviews book award finalists. Kim Doner is secretary. She is an illustrator from Tulsa, who won the Design/Illustration award at the 1996 Oklahoma Book Awards for Green Snake Ceremony. She has been the artist for the Department of Libraries' annual summer reading program for the past three years. Gerry Willingham is treasurer. She is retired from the Putnam City School District, where she served as director of the Library Media program. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, S01-c-3 organization serving as an outreach program of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Oklahoma's Center, begun in 1986, was the fourth state center formed. The mission of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is to promote the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; to promote the literary heritage of the state; and to encourage reading for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is governed by a volunteer board of directors from across the state. They are listed below, except for officers named above. Hannah Atkins, Oklahoma City William Bernhardt, Tulsa Gale Bollinger, Oklahoma City Diane Canavan, Shawnee Glenda Carlile, Oklahoma City David Clark, Norman Robert L. Clark Jr., Oklahoma City Aarone Corwin, Midwest City Nance Diamond, Shawnee Lennie Draper, Norman Julia Fresonke, Edmond Marilyn Geiger, Norman Ann Hamilton, Edmond Julie Hovis, Edmond Ken Jackson, Tulsa Bill McCloud, Pryor Howard Meredith, Oklahoma City Teresa Miller, Tulsa Paulette Millichap, Tulsa Joyce Pipps, Shawnee Marcia Preston, Edmond Eve K. Sandstrom, Lawton Dean Sims, Tulsa John Wooley, Tulsa William R. Young, Oklahoma City tO KLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK Project Highlights, 1998-99 The Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries has participated in several events in the past twelve months, and has made commitments for events later this year. My Favorite Poem was a project sponsored by Nimrod literary magazine in Tulsa in May of 1998. The Center provided funds and many members attended the poetry readings by business and civic leaders at Border Books. The Center assisted with exhibits and book signings by Oklahoma authors at Oklahoma City's Crossroads Mall in November of 1998, as part of the Oklahoma County literacy Fair. Kids Caught Reading is an annual activity of the Ce nter, and is part of Oklahoma's Celebration of Reading (formerly known as National Young Readers Day). The Center will once again give $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are caught reading in their spare time. The prizes will be presented at the Celebration of Reading on April 9, 1999 at the Lazy-E Arena. j In another program which involves children, the center is cosponsoring, for the fifth year, the ~etters about literature competition. Nationally promoted by Weekly Reader and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, students in grades 6 through 12 are asked to write letters to the author of a book that affected them in some way. The Center awards a total of $250 to writers of the top five letters. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is also providing funds to the Oklahoma Library Association to sponsor author Billie Letts' presentation at the association 's Friday night banquet during their annual conference, March 24-27, 1999. The Center continues to provide authors to libraries and schools, and hopes to initiate an Oklahoma Authors database on the organization's website during 1999. The Centers website address is www.odl.state.ok.uslocb The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 1999 competition. They were: Dan Blanchard Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies David Clark Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Karyn Gilman Christopher Givans Ann Hamilton Rosemary Hardy Gayle Jones Carol Davis Koss Bill McCloud Louisa McCune Howard Meredith Donna Norvell Dee Pierce Byron Price Diane See bass Dewayne Smoot William Struby Leah Taylor Jim Tolbert Mary Woodman The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Best of Books, Edmond Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Dunlap, Codding and Rogers Patent Law Firm Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library System Jerry and Ruth Murphey National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Hilton Hotel Northwest Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Prairie Wind Writers, Inc. Steve's Books, Tulsa Very special thanks to ... Laurie Sundborg, Liz Codding, Kim Donner, Marcia Preston and Gail Bollinger of the ceremony committee. Proceeds from tonight's book sales will benefit the Oklahoma Center for the Book 200 Northeast 18th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105·3298 http://www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb/ 1·800·522·8116 |
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Literary prizes--Oklahoma Oklahoma Book Awards |
Description | Program of the Oklahoma Book Awards. |
Physical Description | 16 p.; 22 cm. |
Place of Publication | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Publisher | Oklahoma Center for the Book |
Publication Date | 1999 |
Source | Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Collection, Vertical File |
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