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Oklahoma Book Awards 2000 A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Books Are Forever March 11, 2000 National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Welcome to the 11th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony Oklahoma Book Awards 2000 Welcome............................................................................................Liz Codding. President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Master of Ceremonies..................................................................Dan Blanchard. Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book 2000 Ralph Ellison Award Presented to Jim Thompson Robert Polito. Author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Distinguished Service Award Presentation John Wooley. Entertainment Writer, Tulsa World Poetry Award Presentation............................................................... Teresa Miller. Director, Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers Fiction Award Presentation ��� Rilla Askew. Recipient of 1993 and 1998 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction Children/Young Adult Award Presentation ���������� Bettie Estes-Rickner. Director, Information Technology, Putnam City Schools Design/Illustration Award Presentation �������������������������� David Clark. Managing Editor, World Literature Today Non-Fiction Award Presentation ����������� Ann DeFrange. Columnist, The Daily Oklahoman 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award.......................................... Gerry Willingham Presented to Bill Wallace Retired Library Media Services Director, Putnam City Schools. Donna Bigby. Library Media Specialist, Dennis Elementary School. Putnam City Schools Announcements............................................................................ Glenda Carlile. Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book You are invited to an after-party at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place immediately following tonight’s ceremony. Jim Thompson Recipient of the 2000 Ralph Ellison Award Born September 27, 1906, Anadarko native James Meyers Thompson used his experience—growing up in the Depression, working the Texas oil fields, gambling, and drinking—to become renowned as one of this country’s finest pulp novelists. Thompson found an original voice in the crime genre. The darkness of his vision quickly set him apart from others in the field. Possibly Thompson’s best known novel–The Killer Inside Me–is the story of a doomed small-town sheriff unable to control his blood lust as circumstances compel him to kill and kill again. Thompson authored no fewer than 29 novels. A number of his books have been made (and remade) into movies, including The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, Coup de Torchon (based on Thompson’s Pop. 1280), The Grifters, and After Dark, My Sweet. Known as a journalist, as well as fiction writer, Thompson directed the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma during the 1930s, and later worked for the New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times Mirror. In the mid-fifties, Thompson began working in Hollywood. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on screenplays for two of the director’s seminal films, The Killing and Paths of Glory. Despite a promising beginning, Thompson’s remaining film career was marked by unproduced screenplays, and some writing for undistinguished televi-sion series. These years were marred by alcoholism and chronicled in his works The Alcoholics and Bad Boy. When he died April 7, 1977, at the age of 71, none of Thompson’s novels remained in-print in this country. However, critical opinion of his novels has grown steadily since his death. Today, Jim Thompson’s work is considered alongside that of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain—writing that tran-scends genre. 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, who received the award in 1995. The 1997 recipient was Angie Debo. Melvin B. Tolson was honored in 1998. Ken Jackson Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award This award is given in recognition for many years of dedication to Oklahoma writ-ers and to preserving the literary heritage of Oklahoma. Jackson was an accom-plished author and newspaper man—editor and columnist. He worked for the Tulsa World during most of his career. This award is in recognition, too, for Ken’s service to the Oklahoma Center for the Book as a member of the Board of Directors from 1988 to his death February 6 of this year. Poetry (Ado) Ration—Diane Glancy—Chax Press Glancy’s writing is familiar to Oklahomans as she has previously been a finalist in fiction, non-fiction and poetry categories of this competition. This year she is also a finalist in the fiction category. Glancy is associate professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. Glancy in (Ado) Ration writes about the human experience within the context of Native American and Spiritual themes. Dowsing for Light—Kennette Harrison—Elk River Review Press “Harrison reminds us that loss and longing are intertwined with joy in the ivied garden of the Spirit,” says Sandra Soli, a fellow Oklahoma poet. “Through these poems, a gate opens where doubters can vanish darkness by ‘dowsing for light’.” Harrison received a master’s degree in English/Creative Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines. In the Bear’s House—N. Scott Momaday—St. Martin’s Press Momaday is known for his unique connection to the beauty and spirituality of the natural world. This book reflects his intensely personal quest to understand the spirit of the wilderness embod-ied in the animal image of Bear. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn, Momaday received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. He is a native of Lawton and currently lives in New Mexico. First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writersedited by Susan Smith Nash—Texture Press This anthology of Paraguayan women writers is the culmination of more than two years of research and investigation of history, art, and literature of this culture. The poetry was edited, translated and accompanied by a critical introduction by Norman author and poet Susan Smith Nash. Nash is currently director of engineering and geosciences programs for the University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education. “Harlem Gallery” and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson edited by Raymond Nelson—University Press of Virginia Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) is recognized as one of America’s finest poets. He won numerous poetry awards and was named Poet Laureate of Liberia in 1947. In 1966 he stated: “I as a black poet, have absorbed the Great Ideas of the Great White World and interpreted them in the melting pot idiom of my people. My roots are in Africa, Europe and America.“ This 2000 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists complete collection of his works was edited by Raymond Nelson, arts and science Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Tolson received the Ralph Ellison Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book in 1998. Every Other One Francine Ringold-Johnson and Manly Johnson—Coman and Associates The editors of Nimrod International Journal, this husband and wife team are both well known individually as writers, performers, editors, and poets. They have shared writing and life side-by- side with six children, five grandchildren and many friends and relations. In this collaborative writing they look forward and back and take a close look at each moment. Ringold-Johnson won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. Fiction Dark Justice—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books With the seventh book in the “Justice” Series, Bernhardt has drawn acclaim as “a master of the courtroom drama.” Bernhardt has received awards both as an attorney and as an author. In 1993, he was named one of the top twenty-five young lawyers in the nation. He has been an Oklahoma Book Award finalist seven times, winning in 1995 for Perfect Justice. Bernhardt, wife Kirsten, and their children Harry and Alice live in Tulsa. Oklahoma Run—Alberta Wilson Constant—Lincoln County Historical Society First published in 1955, Alberta Wilson Constant’s book has assumed a place among the liter-ary classics of Oklahoma. In celebration of Oklahoma’s Diamond Jubilee of Statehood in 1982 the book was reissued by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Out of print for many years, the book was reissued by the Children’s Historical Resource Center, a branch of the Lincoln County Historical Society. Succubus—Paul F. Fernald—Sterling House Publishers An emotional courtroom drama that allows the reader to examine one of today’s most compel-ling issues: Are years of mental and physical abuse a justifiable reason for murder? Succubus illustrates Oklahoma City author and attorney Fernald’s 28 years of trial experience. This is Fernald’s first novel. The Voice That Was in Travel—Diane Glancy—University of Oklahoma Press In twenty stories that range in length from one-page vignettes to novellas, Glancy expresses the sense of displacement American Indian travelers endure. She reveals striking insights into contemporary American Indian life. Glancy, who is Cherokee, formerly lived in Oklahoma and was an artist-in residence at the Oklahoma Arts Council. A Prayer for the Dying—Stewart O’Nan—Henry Holt and Company Dark, poetic, and chilling, this book asks if it’s possible to be a good man in a time of mad- ness. Author Robert O’Connor describes it as “the rarest of books: a philosophical horror novel.” Considered one of America’s finest young authors, O’Nan has been a finalist for four Oklahoma Books Awards and won in 1997 for The Names of the Dead. A former University of Central Oklahoma professor, O’Nan lives in Connecticut. The Bingo Queens of Paradise—June Park—Harper Collins This first novel by Oklahoma City resident June Park is described as a tour de force that lyri-cally blends a powerful comic voice with a poignant tale of a woman who longs to escape her life and follow her dreams. Born and educated in London, this mother of three lives with her husband, her mother, and a dachshund named Sooner. The debut of her first book was bit-tersweet. Two days before the book arrived in Oklahoma City, her house was destroyed by the May 3rd tornado. She managed to save the disk containing the beginnings of her second book. Falling Dark—Tim Tharp—Milkweed Editions Winner of the 1999 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, this novel takes place in a small Okla-homa town. Diminished expectations, teenage love, small-town blues, and neighborhood bul-lies flourish amid strip joints, honky-tonks, gas stations, and the Git-n-Go convenience store. Tharp teaches composition and speech at Oklahoma State University, Okmulgee. Children/Young Adult Buffalo Dreams—Kim Doner—Westwinds Press Doner, an author and illustrator of numerous books for children, is a native Oklahoman who lives in Tulsa. Buffalo Dreams is a story about the legend of the white buffalo, and a spontane-ous pilgrimage of the Bearpaw family to take gifts to a white buffalo calf. Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing but Net. Harold Keith—Eakin Press This is a story about a man, Coach Jim, forced to coach a girls’ athletic team in Oklahoma, only to find that “he loves it and never wants to coach boys’ athletics again.” Coach Jim is the nephew of the late Harold Keith. Keith, who won the 1958 Newbery Medal for Rifles for Watie, was recipient of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. Head Above Water—S. L. Rottman—Freestone A sensitive exploration about conflicting desires and responsibilities frame a teenager’s growth into adulthood. Rottman is a high school English teacher and a swim coach in Colorado Springs. She has taught in Oklahoma, and she dedicates this book to the Deer Creek Class of 2002. Rottman won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1998 for Hero. Letters from Vinnie—Maureen Stack Sappèy—Front Street Books Sappèy, working from extensive research into the real life of Vinnie Ream, gives her a voice that is eloquent, impassioned, and deeply human. Ream, in her late teens, began sculpting the statue of Abraham Lincoln that stands today in the Rotunda of the Capitol. Sappèy says she has always admired those who courageously pursue their dreams with hands, heart, and soul. Vinnie Ream was such a person. Sappèy lives in Chestertown, Maryland. The Oklahoma town of Vinita was named for Ms. Ream. The Buffalo Train Ride—Desiree Morrison Webber—Eakin Press At the plea of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker to President Theodore Roosevelt, a wildlife pre-serve was established in Oklahoma Territory in 1905. Fifteen buffalo from the New York Zoo-logical Society were loaded onto a train for a “wild and woolly” 1,800-mile trip to Oklahoma in order to replenish the lost herds. Webber is a public library consultant for the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. She lives in Bethany. Design/Illustration Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition. Designed by Carl Brune—Philbrook Museum of Art This book is a catalog of an exhibition organized and curated by the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa. The exhibition examined American landscape painting in the second half of the 20th century, presenting the works of 89 artists. A native of Enid, Oklahoma, Brune has worked at the Philbrook for 17 years, where he is currently Graphics and Publications Manager. Buffalo Dreams—Illustrated by Kim Doner—Westwinds Press As an artist Doner is acclaimed for her warmth and richly authentic detail. Doner, who also wrote the text for this volume, is a finalist in the Children/Young Adult category. Doner received the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration in 1996 for Green Snake Ceremony. Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma. Designed by Carol Haralson—Oklahoma Heritage Association This comprehensive volume has hundreds of photos and articles about the great ball players who passed through Oklahoma. According to the book’s writers Burke, Franks, and Parr, designer Haralson “took stacks of printed word and hundreds of photos and created a mas-terpiece.” A former Tulsa resident (who now lives in Sedona, Arizona), Haralson has won the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration a record four times. Summertime, from Porgy and Bess. Illustrated by Mike Wimmer—Simon & Schuster Nothing seems to capture the feelings of summer better than the much-loved song “Summer-time.” Acclaimed illustrator Wimmer’s lush oil paintings depicting a family’s routine one summer day earlier in this century, this American classic takes on a whole new meaning. Wimmer won the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration in 1995. He lives in Norman. Nonfiction Native American Style. Elmo Baca and M.J. Van Deventer—Gibbs-Smith Publisher A view of Native American art and philosophy, this volume includes information about many tribes, from South America to the Pueblo dwellers. Many photographs and stories of utilitarian and religious objects are included. This book explores the significance of Bacone, the University of Oklahoma, and Philbrook art programs. Baca is director of New Mexico’s Main Street Pro-gram, a writer and historic preservationist. Van Deventer is editor of Persimmon Hill and director of publications for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside 1904-1920—Jim Bissett—University of Oklahoma Press This provocative book is a chronicle of the rise and fall of Marxian Socialism in Oklahoma. From 1900 to 1920, Oklahoma “supported the most vigorous, ambitious, and fascinating socialist movement of all ... a remarkable movement ... that successfully elected its candidates to a myriad of state and local offices.” The rapid demise of the party came with the hysteria and repression of the war years. Bissett is associate professor of history at Elon College, North Carolina. Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma. Bob Burke, Kenny A. Franks, and Royse Parr—Oklahoma Heritage Association In nearly 500 pages, the authors present some of the legendary baseball players with connec-tions to Oklahoma: Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn, Carl Hubbell, Lloyd and Paul Waner, and Dizzy and Daffy Dean. One in ten of the 14,000 men who have played major league baseball since 1876 have come through Oklahoma, and the details of their careers are included. Burke is an Oklahoma City lawyer and writer who received the 1999 Oklahoma Book Award for Non-fiction. Kenny Franks is one of Oklahoma’s most published historians. He is Director of Educa-tion and Publications for the Oklahoma Heritage Association. A retired oil company attorney, Parr lives in Tulsa, and is an active member of the Society of American Baseball Research. The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. Thomas W. Cowger—University of Nebraska Press The first full-length history of the NCAI, Cowger presents the story of the founding of the orga-nization in 1944 and its first two decades. The NCAI had a leading role in stimulating Native political awareness and activism. The NCAI provided a forum for debates about vital issues affecting reservations and tribes, including litigation efforts, and lobbying activities. The organi-zation fought against governmental efforts to end the reservation system. The NCAI continues today to steer a moderate course bringing together many tribal peoples. Cowger is assistant professor of history at East Central University in Ada. Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest. Dan Flores—University of New Mexico Press Flores explores the human and natural history of the area that includes New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas and Louisiana. The Horizontal Yellow is a Navajo term for the yellowed grass landscape of the region. Flores suggests that the region shares a common watershed, a common history, and a common sensory impression—a char-acteristic topography he describes as “one of the grandest, most windswept landscapes of plains, tablelands, and deserts on the planet.” Flores is the A.B. Hammond professor of history at the University of Montana in Missoula. The Cherokees and their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire Stanley Hoig—University of Arkansas Press Hoig traces the demise of the Cherokees’ historic homeland in the American South, their removal to present-day Oklahoma, the final destruction of their tribal autonomy, and then rise in political and social stature during the 20th Century. Hoig is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. In 1991, he won the Oklahoma Book Award for children’s literature, for A Capitol for the Nation. A Passion for Equality: The Life of Jimmy Stewart. Vicki Miles-LaGrange and Bob Burke—Oklahoma Heritage Association For more than 50 years, one of the undisputed leaders of integration efforts in Oklahoma, Jimmy Stewart started his professional career as a janitor at Oklahoma Natural Gas in 1937. He retired from the company as assistant to the vice president. He worked to produce a better life for those afflicted with poverty as a national leader of the NAACP during the times of school desegregation and integration. The book provides a wealth of information about the man and his times. Miles-LaGrange is U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma. Burke is a lawyer and historian. Bob Burke received the 1999 Book Award for Nonfiction. Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief. Daniel C. Swan—University Press of Mississippi The peyotists, controversial and misunderstood, have been the targets of discrimination from missionaries, government officials, and politicians. A religion based on the ritual consumption of the peyote cactus emerged in the 1870s on the Southern Plains. Its elaborate ceremony gained converts on the reservations of the southwestern Indian Territory, modern-day Oklahoma, and quickly spread to other tribes in Oklahoma and the surrounding region. An explanation of the origins, beliefs, and practices of the Native American Church and the peyote sacrament is given. Swan is senior curator at the Gilcrease Museum and has published numerous articles on the peyote religion. The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. Michael Wallis—St. Martin’s Press “The enthralling history of one of the wildest ranch empires of the American frontier and the birth of the western motion picture industry,” Wallis’ work was 10 years in the making. It is “nothing less than a sweeping history of the West of myth and reality.” This work chronicles the life of Col. George Washington Miller, founder of the 101 Ranch. The book follows Miller’s migration from Kentucky through Missouri and Kansas, and into the Cherokee Outlet, where he located the world-famous ranch on the banks of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, near Ponca City. Wallis, who lives in Tulsa, is an award-winning historian of the West, and recipient of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation 1843-1920. Mary Jane Warde—University of Oklahoma Press Grayson served as leader of the Creek Nation for sixty years. He was a Confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder. Warde’s work is the first extended study of Creek history since Debo’s classic The Road to Disappearance, in 1941. Warde is Indian historian at the Oklahoma Historical Society. She received her Ph.D. in history from Oklahoma State University. Bill Wallace Recipient of the 2000 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1947, William Keith Wallace started out his working life as a teacher. In 1971, after graduating with a degree in elementary education, Wal-lace began teaching school in his hometown. He taught kindergarten and fourth grade classes. After earning a Masters degree in Elementary Administration, Wallace served as an assistant principal, and eventually as principal of West Elementary in Chickasha. Along the way, Wallace studied professional writing with William Foster-Harris and Dwight Swain at the University of Oklahoma. A prolific writer, Bill Wallace has written or co-written 25 novels for young people. With titles like The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade, The Great Escape (Upchuck and the Rotten Willy), and Snot Stew, his books have been popular from the beginning. In 1983, Wallace received the Oklahoma Sequoyah Children’s Book Award for his book A Dog Called Kitty. The novel written for young people went on to win the Texas Bluebonnet Award in 1983, and the Nebraska Golden Sower Award in 1985. Over the years, Wallace has received writing awards from seventeen different states, including a second Sequoyah award in 1991 for Beauty. Watchdog and the Coyotes was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 1996, and Aloha Summer was a finalist in 1998. In 1988, Wallace intended to take one year off from teaching—he never returned. Instead, he began a new career as an extremely popular speaker in schools and at confer-ences throughout the United States. Teachers, librarians, and grandparents appreciate his candor and openness. Children seem to respond to his obvious enthusiasm for story telling and writing. His wife Carol, also a former elementary schoolteacher, has co-authored with Wallace The Flying Flea, Callie and Me and That Furball Puppy and Me. The Wallaces have three children and two granddaughters. Daughter Nikki Wallace is author of Stubby and the Puppy Pack. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to a person recognized 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. Officers and Board of Directors President— Liz Codding—Edmond Vice-President—B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City Secretary—Joyce Pipps—Shawnee Treasurer—Gerry Willingham—Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and is organized to focus attention on the vital role of books and reading in our lives. The Center promotes the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; promotes the literary heritage of the state; and encourages reading for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages. When the Library of Congress announced the granting of permission to States to become part of their program, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries assembled an advisory group and wrote a proposal. The Oklahoma Center for the Book became the fourth state center on February 28, 1986. The Center is governed by a 30-member, volunteer board of directors from across the state. Gale Bollinger—Oklahoma City Diane Canavan—Shawnee David Clark—Norman Robert L. Clark—Oklahoma City Aarone Corwin—Midwest City Kim Doner—Tulsa Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang Julia Fresonke—Oklahoma City Ann Hamilton—Edmond Mort Hamilton—Ardmore George Henderson—Norman Joe Holmes—Oklahoma City Julie Hovis—Edmond Glenda Madden—Norman Bill McCloud—Pryor Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Teresa Miller—Tulsa Anna Myers—Chandler Marcia Preston—Edmond Diane Seabass—Tulsa Dean Sims—Tulsa Sue Stees—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City John Wooley—Tulsa William R. Young—Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK Oklahoma Center for the Book Project Highlights 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. Kids Caught Reading is an annual activity of the Center, and is part of Oklahoma’s Celebra-tion 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 7, 2000 at the Lazy-E Arena. In another program which involves children, the center is cosponsoring, for the sixth year, the Letters 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 Center worked with the Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa during the Celebration of Books in September. 1999 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Wallis was featured in a program about the West with singer Michael Martin Murphy. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is also providing funds to the Oklahoma Library Associa-tion to sponsor author George Henderson as keynote speaker during their annual conference, April 26- 29, 2000. The Center continues to provide authors to libraries and schools, and plans to initiate an Oklahoma Authors database on the organization’s website. The Center's website address is www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb Previous Oklahoma 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 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 Children/ Young Adult 1990, Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and His Kin 1991, Stan Hoig, A Capitol 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 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 Leffler Ringold-Johnson, 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 Design/ Illustration 1990, David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson 1991, Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens 1992, Joe Williams, Woolaroc 1993, Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence; and 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 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award 1990, Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, native of Tulsa 1991, Tony Hillerman, 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, award winning author of young adult novels, Tulsa 1998, Jack Bickham, novelist, teacher and journalist, Norman 1999, Michael Wallis, award-winning historian and biographer, Tulsa 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 Book Award Winners The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2000 competition: Dan Blanchard Mary Ann Blochowiak David Clark Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Christopher Givans Ann Hamilton Mort Hamilton Joe Holmes Gayle Jones Kathy Latrobe Louisa McCune Denis McGilvray Donna Norvell Judith Tate O’Brien Dee Pierce Kitty Pittman Byron Price Diane Seebass Dewayne Smoot William Struby Leah Taylor James R. Tolbert III Mary Woodman The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Archives Division, Oklahoma Historical Society 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 Joe & Billie Holmes Metropolitan Library System National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Hilton Hotel Northwest Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Steve’s Books, Tulsa Special thanks to... Marcia Preston, Ceremony Chair, and. committee members Gail Bollinger, Liz Codding, Julia Fresonke, and M.J. Van Deventer Ann Hamilton, Program Chair and Audio-visual Producer Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Thelma Burchfiel, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK 200 Northeast 18 Street Oklahoma City OK 73105-3298 www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb • 1-800-522-8116
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Transcript | Oklahoma Book Awards 2000 A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Books Are Forever March 11, 2000 National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Welcome to the 11th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards Ceremony Oklahoma Book Awards 2000 Welcome............................................................................................Liz Codding. President, Oklahoma Center for the Book Master of Ceremonies..................................................................Dan Blanchard. Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book 2000 Ralph Ellison Award Presented to Jim Thompson Robert Polito. Author of Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson Distinguished Service Award Presentation John Wooley. Entertainment Writer, Tulsa World Poetry Award Presentation............................................................... Teresa Miller. Director, Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers Fiction Award Presentation ��� Rilla Askew. Recipient of 1993 and 1998 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction Children/Young Adult Award Presentation ���������� Bettie Estes-Rickner. Director, Information Technology, Putnam City Schools Design/Illustration Award Presentation �������������������������� David Clark. Managing Editor, World Literature Today Non-Fiction Award Presentation ����������� Ann DeFrange. Columnist, The Daily Oklahoman 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award.......................................... Gerry Willingham Presented to Bill Wallace Retired Library Media Services Director, Putnam City Schools. Donna Bigby. Library Media Specialist, Dennis Elementary School. Putnam City Schools Announcements............................................................................ Glenda Carlile. Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book You are invited to an after-party at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place immediately following tonight’s ceremony. Jim Thompson Recipient of the 2000 Ralph Ellison Award Born September 27, 1906, Anadarko native James Meyers Thompson used his experience—growing up in the Depression, working the Texas oil fields, gambling, and drinking—to become renowned as one of this country’s finest pulp novelists. Thompson found an original voice in the crime genre. The darkness of his vision quickly set him apart from others in the field. Possibly Thompson’s best known novel–The Killer Inside Me–is the story of a doomed small-town sheriff unable to control his blood lust as circumstances compel him to kill and kill again. Thompson authored no fewer than 29 novels. A number of his books have been made (and remade) into movies, including The Killer Inside Me, The Getaway, Coup de Torchon (based on Thompson’s Pop. 1280), The Grifters, and After Dark, My Sweet. Known as a journalist, as well as fiction writer, Thompson directed the Federal Writers Project in Oklahoma during the 1930s, and later worked for the New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times Mirror. In the mid-fifties, Thompson began working in Hollywood. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on screenplays for two of the director’s seminal films, The Killing and Paths of Glory. Despite a promising beginning, Thompson’s remaining film career was marked by unproduced screenplays, and some writing for undistinguished televi-sion series. These years were marred by alcoholism and chronicled in his works The Alcoholics and Bad Boy. When he died April 7, 1977, at the age of 71, none of Thompson’s novels remained in-print in this country. However, critical opinion of his novels has grown steadily since his death. Today, Jim Thompson’s work is considered alongside that of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain—writing that tran-scends genre. 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, who received the award in 1995. The 1997 recipient was Angie Debo. Melvin B. Tolson was honored in 1998. Ken Jackson Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award This award is given in recognition for many years of dedication to Oklahoma writ-ers and to preserving the literary heritage of Oklahoma. Jackson was an accom-plished author and newspaper man—editor and columnist. He worked for the Tulsa World during most of his career. This award is in recognition, too, for Ken’s service to the Oklahoma Center for the Book as a member of the Board of Directors from 1988 to his death February 6 of this year. Poetry (Ado) Ration—Diane Glancy—Chax Press Glancy’s writing is familiar to Oklahomans as she has previously been a finalist in fiction, non-fiction and poetry categories of this competition. This year she is also a finalist in the fiction category. Glancy is associate professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. Glancy in (Ado) Ration writes about the human experience within the context of Native American and Spiritual themes. Dowsing for Light—Kennette Harrison—Elk River Review Press “Harrison reminds us that loss and longing are intertwined with joy in the ivied garden of the Spirit,” says Sandra Soli, a fellow Oklahoma poet. “Through these poems, a gate opens where doubters can vanish darkness by ‘dowsing for light’.” Harrison received a master’s degree in English/Creative Studies from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines. In the Bear’s House—N. Scott Momaday—St. Martin’s Press Momaday is known for his unique connection to the beauty and spirituality of the natural world. This book reflects his intensely personal quest to understand the spirit of the wilderness embod-ied in the animal image of Bear. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn, Momaday received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. He is a native of Lawton and currently lives in New Mexico. First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writersedited by Susan Smith Nash—Texture Press This anthology of Paraguayan women writers is the culmination of more than two years of research and investigation of history, art, and literature of this culture. The poetry was edited, translated and accompanied by a critical introduction by Norman author and poet Susan Smith Nash. Nash is currently director of engineering and geosciences programs for the University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education. “Harlem Gallery” and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson edited by Raymond Nelson—University Press of Virginia Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) is recognized as one of America’s finest poets. He won numerous poetry awards and was named Poet Laureate of Liberia in 1947. In 1966 he stated: “I as a black poet, have absorbed the Great Ideas of the Great White World and interpreted them in the melting pot idiom of my people. My roots are in Africa, Europe and America.“ This 2000 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists complete collection of his works was edited by Raymond Nelson, arts and science Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Tolson received the Ralph Ellison Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book in 1998. Every Other One Francine Ringold-Johnson and Manly Johnson—Coman and Associates The editors of Nimrod International Journal, this husband and wife team are both well known individually as writers, performers, editors, and poets. They have shared writing and life side-by- side with six children, five grandchildren and many friends and relations. In this collaborative writing they look forward and back and take a close look at each moment. Ringold-Johnson won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. Fiction Dark Justice—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books With the seventh book in the “Justice” Series, Bernhardt has drawn acclaim as “a master of the courtroom drama.” Bernhardt has received awards both as an attorney and as an author. In 1993, he was named one of the top twenty-five young lawyers in the nation. He has been an Oklahoma Book Award finalist seven times, winning in 1995 for Perfect Justice. Bernhardt, wife Kirsten, and their children Harry and Alice live in Tulsa. Oklahoma Run—Alberta Wilson Constant—Lincoln County Historical Society First published in 1955, Alberta Wilson Constant’s book has assumed a place among the liter-ary classics of Oklahoma. In celebration of Oklahoma’s Diamond Jubilee of Statehood in 1982 the book was reissued by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Out of print for many years, the book was reissued by the Children’s Historical Resource Center, a branch of the Lincoln County Historical Society. Succubus—Paul F. Fernald—Sterling House Publishers An emotional courtroom drama that allows the reader to examine one of today’s most compel-ling issues: Are years of mental and physical abuse a justifiable reason for murder? Succubus illustrates Oklahoma City author and attorney Fernald’s 28 years of trial experience. This is Fernald’s first novel. The Voice That Was in Travel—Diane Glancy—University of Oklahoma Press In twenty stories that range in length from one-page vignettes to novellas, Glancy expresses the sense of displacement American Indian travelers endure. She reveals striking insights into contemporary American Indian life. Glancy, who is Cherokee, formerly lived in Oklahoma and was an artist-in residence at the Oklahoma Arts Council. A Prayer for the Dying—Stewart O’Nan—Henry Holt and Company Dark, poetic, and chilling, this book asks if it’s possible to be a good man in a time of mad- ness. Author Robert O’Connor describes it as “the rarest of books: a philosophical horror novel.” Considered one of America’s finest young authors, O’Nan has been a finalist for four Oklahoma Books Awards and won in 1997 for The Names of the Dead. A former University of Central Oklahoma professor, O’Nan lives in Connecticut. The Bingo Queens of Paradise—June Park—Harper Collins This first novel by Oklahoma City resident June Park is described as a tour de force that lyri-cally blends a powerful comic voice with a poignant tale of a woman who longs to escape her life and follow her dreams. Born and educated in London, this mother of three lives with her husband, her mother, and a dachshund named Sooner. The debut of her first book was bit-tersweet. Two days before the book arrived in Oklahoma City, her house was destroyed by the May 3rd tornado. She managed to save the disk containing the beginnings of her second book. Falling Dark—Tim Tharp—Milkweed Editions Winner of the 1999 Milkweed National Fiction Prize, this novel takes place in a small Okla-homa town. Diminished expectations, teenage love, small-town blues, and neighborhood bul-lies flourish amid strip joints, honky-tonks, gas stations, and the Git-n-Go convenience store. Tharp teaches composition and speech at Oklahoma State University, Okmulgee. Children/Young Adult Buffalo Dreams—Kim Doner—Westwinds Press Doner, an author and illustrator of numerous books for children, is a native Oklahoman who lives in Tulsa. Buffalo Dreams is a story about the legend of the white buffalo, and a spontane-ous pilgrimage of the Bearpaw family to take gifts to a white buffalo calf. Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing but Net. Harold Keith—Eakin Press This is a story about a man, Coach Jim, forced to coach a girls’ athletic team in Oklahoma, only to find that “he loves it and never wants to coach boys’ athletics again.” Coach Jim is the nephew of the late Harold Keith. Keith, who won the 1958 Newbery Medal for Rifles for Watie, was recipient of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. Head Above Water—S. L. Rottman—Freestone A sensitive exploration about conflicting desires and responsibilities frame a teenager’s growth into adulthood. Rottman is a high school English teacher and a swim coach in Colorado Springs. She has taught in Oklahoma, and she dedicates this book to the Deer Creek Class of 2002. Rottman won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1998 for Hero. Letters from Vinnie—Maureen Stack Sappèy—Front Street Books Sappèy, working from extensive research into the real life of Vinnie Ream, gives her a voice that is eloquent, impassioned, and deeply human. Ream, in her late teens, began sculpting the statue of Abraham Lincoln that stands today in the Rotunda of the Capitol. Sappèy says she has always admired those who courageously pursue their dreams with hands, heart, and soul. Vinnie Ream was such a person. Sappèy lives in Chestertown, Maryland. The Oklahoma town of Vinita was named for Ms. Ream. The Buffalo Train Ride—Desiree Morrison Webber—Eakin Press At the plea of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker to President Theodore Roosevelt, a wildlife pre-serve was established in Oklahoma Territory in 1905. Fifteen buffalo from the New York Zoo-logical Society were loaded onto a train for a “wild and woolly” 1,800-mile trip to Oklahoma in order to replenish the lost herds. Webber is a public library consultant for the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. She lives in Bethany. Design/Illustration Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition. Designed by Carl Brune—Philbrook Museum of Art This book is a catalog of an exhibition organized and curated by the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa. The exhibition examined American landscape painting in the second half of the 20th century, presenting the works of 89 artists. A native of Enid, Oklahoma, Brune has worked at the Philbrook for 17 years, where he is currently Graphics and Publications Manager. Buffalo Dreams—Illustrated by Kim Doner—Westwinds Press As an artist Doner is acclaimed for her warmth and richly authentic detail. Doner, who also wrote the text for this volume, is a finalist in the Children/Young Adult category. Doner received the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration in 1996 for Green Snake Ceremony. Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma. Designed by Carol Haralson—Oklahoma Heritage Association This comprehensive volume has hundreds of photos and articles about the great ball players who passed through Oklahoma. According to the book’s writers Burke, Franks, and Parr, designer Haralson “took stacks of printed word and hundreds of photos and created a mas-terpiece.” A former Tulsa resident (who now lives in Sedona, Arizona), Haralson has won the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration a record four times. Summertime, from Porgy and Bess. Illustrated by Mike Wimmer—Simon & Schuster Nothing seems to capture the feelings of summer better than the much-loved song “Summer-time.” Acclaimed illustrator Wimmer’s lush oil paintings depicting a family’s routine one summer day earlier in this century, this American classic takes on a whole new meaning. Wimmer won the Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration in 1995. He lives in Norman. Nonfiction Native American Style. Elmo Baca and M.J. Van Deventer—Gibbs-Smith Publisher A view of Native American art and philosophy, this volume includes information about many tribes, from South America to the Pueblo dwellers. Many photographs and stories of utilitarian and religious objects are included. This book explores the significance of Bacone, the University of Oklahoma, and Philbrook art programs. Baca is director of New Mexico’s Main Street Pro-gram, a writer and historic preservationist. Van Deventer is editor of Persimmon Hill and director of publications for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside 1904-1920—Jim Bissett—University of Oklahoma Press This provocative book is a chronicle of the rise and fall of Marxian Socialism in Oklahoma. From 1900 to 1920, Oklahoma “supported the most vigorous, ambitious, and fascinating socialist movement of all ... a remarkable movement ... that successfully elected its candidates to a myriad of state and local offices.” The rapid demise of the party came with the hysteria and repression of the war years. Bissett is associate professor of history at Elon College, North Carolina. Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma. Bob Burke, Kenny A. Franks, and Royse Parr—Oklahoma Heritage Association In nearly 500 pages, the authors present some of the legendary baseball players with connec-tions to Oklahoma: Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn, Carl Hubbell, Lloyd and Paul Waner, and Dizzy and Daffy Dean. One in ten of the 14,000 men who have played major league baseball since 1876 have come through Oklahoma, and the details of their careers are included. Burke is an Oklahoma City lawyer and writer who received the 1999 Oklahoma Book Award for Non-fiction. Kenny Franks is one of Oklahoma’s most published historians. He is Director of Educa-tion and Publications for the Oklahoma Heritage Association. A retired oil company attorney, Parr lives in Tulsa, and is an active member of the Society of American Baseball Research. The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years. Thomas W. Cowger—University of Nebraska Press The first full-length history of the NCAI, Cowger presents the story of the founding of the orga-nization in 1944 and its first two decades. The NCAI had a leading role in stimulating Native political awareness and activism. The NCAI provided a forum for debates about vital issues affecting reservations and tribes, including litigation efforts, and lobbying activities. The organi-zation fought against governmental efforts to end the reservation system. The NCAI continues today to steer a moderate course bringing together many tribal peoples. Cowger is assistant professor of history at East Central University in Ada. Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest. Dan Flores—University of New Mexico Press Flores explores the human and natural history of the area that includes New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas and Louisiana. The Horizontal Yellow is a Navajo term for the yellowed grass landscape of the region. Flores suggests that the region shares a common watershed, a common history, and a common sensory impression—a char-acteristic topography he describes as “one of the grandest, most windswept landscapes of plains, tablelands, and deserts on the planet.” Flores is the A.B. Hammond professor of history at the University of Montana in Missoula. The Cherokees and their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire Stanley Hoig—University of Arkansas Press Hoig traces the demise of the Cherokees’ historic homeland in the American South, their removal to present-day Oklahoma, the final destruction of their tribal autonomy, and then rise in political and social stature during the 20th Century. Hoig is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. In 1991, he won the Oklahoma Book Award for children’s literature, for A Capitol for the Nation. A Passion for Equality: The Life of Jimmy Stewart. Vicki Miles-LaGrange and Bob Burke—Oklahoma Heritage Association For more than 50 years, one of the undisputed leaders of integration efforts in Oklahoma, Jimmy Stewart started his professional career as a janitor at Oklahoma Natural Gas in 1937. He retired from the company as assistant to the vice president. He worked to produce a better life for those afflicted with poverty as a national leader of the NAACP during the times of school desegregation and integration. The book provides a wealth of information about the man and his times. Miles-LaGrange is U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma. Burke is a lawyer and historian. Bob Burke received the 1999 Book Award for Nonfiction. Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief. Daniel C. Swan—University Press of Mississippi The peyotists, controversial and misunderstood, have been the targets of discrimination from missionaries, government officials, and politicians. A religion based on the ritual consumption of the peyote cactus emerged in the 1870s on the Southern Plains. Its elaborate ceremony gained converts on the reservations of the southwestern Indian Territory, modern-day Oklahoma, and quickly spread to other tribes in Oklahoma and the surrounding region. An explanation of the origins, beliefs, and practices of the Native American Church and the peyote sacrament is given. Swan is senior curator at the Gilcrease Museum and has published numerous articles on the peyote religion. The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West. Michael Wallis—St. Martin’s Press “The enthralling history of one of the wildest ranch empires of the American frontier and the birth of the western motion picture industry,” Wallis’ work was 10 years in the making. It is “nothing less than a sweeping history of the West of myth and reality.” This work chronicles the life of Col. George Washington Miller, founder of the 101 Ranch. The book follows Miller’s migration from Kentucky through Missouri and Kansas, and into the Cherokee Outlet, where he located the world-famous ranch on the banks of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, near Ponca City. Wallis, who lives in Tulsa, is an award-winning historian of the West, and recipient of the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation 1843-1920. Mary Jane Warde—University of Oklahoma Press Grayson served as leader of the Creek Nation for sixty years. He was a Confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder. Warde’s work is the first extended study of Creek history since Debo’s classic The Road to Disappearance, in 1941. Warde is Indian historian at the Oklahoma Historical Society. She received her Ph.D. in history from Oklahoma State University. Bill Wallace Recipient of the 2000 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1947, William Keith Wallace started out his working life as a teacher. In 1971, after graduating with a degree in elementary education, Wal-lace began teaching school in his hometown. He taught kindergarten and fourth grade classes. After earning a Masters degree in Elementary Administration, Wallace served as an assistant principal, and eventually as principal of West Elementary in Chickasha. Along the way, Wallace studied professional writing with William Foster-Harris and Dwight Swain at the University of Oklahoma. A prolific writer, Bill Wallace has written or co-written 25 novels for young people. With titles like The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade, The Great Escape (Upchuck and the Rotten Willy), and Snot Stew, his books have been popular from the beginning. In 1983, Wallace received the Oklahoma Sequoyah Children’s Book Award for his book A Dog Called Kitty. The novel written for young people went on to win the Texas Bluebonnet Award in 1983, and the Nebraska Golden Sower Award in 1985. Over the years, Wallace has received writing awards from seventeen different states, including a second Sequoyah award in 1991 for Beauty. Watchdog and the Coyotes was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 1996, and Aloha Summer was a finalist in 1998. In 1988, Wallace intended to take one year off from teaching—he never returned. Instead, he began a new career as an extremely popular speaker in schools and at confer-ences throughout the United States. Teachers, librarians, and grandparents appreciate his candor and openness. Children seem to respond to his obvious enthusiasm for story telling and writing. His wife Carol, also a former elementary schoolteacher, has co-authored with Wallace The Flying Flea, Callie and Me and That Furball Puppy and Me. The Wallaces have three children and two granddaughters. Daughter Nikki Wallace is author of Stubby and the Puppy Pack. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to a person recognized 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. Officers and Board of Directors President— Liz Codding—Edmond Vice-President—B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City Secretary—Joyce Pipps—Shawnee Treasurer—Gerry Willingham—Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and is organized to focus attention on the vital role of books and reading in our lives. The Center promotes the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; promotes the literary heritage of the state; and encourages reading for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages. When the Library of Congress announced the granting of permission to States to become part of their program, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries assembled an advisory group and wrote a proposal. The Oklahoma Center for the Book became the fourth state center on February 28, 1986. The Center is governed by a 30-member, volunteer board of directors from across the state. Gale Bollinger—Oklahoma City Diane Canavan—Shawnee David Clark—Norman Robert L. Clark—Oklahoma City Aarone Corwin—Midwest City Kim Doner—Tulsa Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang Julia Fresonke—Oklahoma City Ann Hamilton—Edmond Mort Hamilton—Ardmore George Henderson—Norman Joe Holmes—Oklahoma City Julie Hovis—Edmond Glenda Madden—Norman Bill McCloud—Pryor Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Teresa Miller—Tulsa Anna Myers—Chandler Marcia Preston—Edmond Diane Seabass—Tulsa Dean Sims—Tulsa Sue Stees—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City John Wooley—Tulsa William R. Young—Oklahoma City OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK Oklahoma Center for the Book Project Highlights 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. Kids Caught Reading is an annual activity of the Center, and is part of Oklahoma’s Celebra-tion 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 7, 2000 at the Lazy-E Arena. In another program which involves children, the center is cosponsoring, for the sixth year, the Letters 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 Center worked with the Center for Poets and Writers in Tulsa during the Celebration of Books in September. 1999 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Wallis was featured in a program about the West with singer Michael Martin Murphy. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is also providing funds to the Oklahoma Library Associa-tion to sponsor author George Henderson as keynote speaker during their annual conference, April 26- 29, 2000. The Center continues to provide authors to libraries and schools, and plans to initiate an Oklahoma Authors database on the organization’s website. The Center's website address is www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb Previous Oklahoma 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 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 Children/ Young Adult 1990, Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and His Kin 1991, Stan Hoig, A Capitol 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 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 Leffler Ringold-Johnson, 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 Design/ Illustration 1990, David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson 1991, Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens 1992, Joe Williams, Woolaroc 1993, Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence; and 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 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award 1990, Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, native of Tulsa 1991, Tony Hillerman, 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, award winning author of young adult novels, Tulsa 1998, Jack Bickham, novelist, teacher and journalist, Norman 1999, Michael Wallis, award-winning historian and biographer, Tulsa 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 Book Award Winners The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2000 competition: Dan Blanchard Mary Ann Blochowiak David Clark Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Christopher Givans Ann Hamilton Mort Hamilton Joe Holmes Gayle Jones Kathy Latrobe Louisa McCune Denis McGilvray Donna Norvell Judith Tate O’Brien Dee Pierce Kitty Pittman Byron Price Diane Seebass Dewayne Smoot William Struby Leah Taylor James R. Tolbert III Mary Woodman The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Archives Division, Oklahoma Historical Society 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 Joe & Billie Holmes Metropolitan Library System National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Oklahoma City Hilton Hotel Northwest Oklahoma Department of Libraries Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association Steve’s Books, Tulsa Special thanks to... Marcia Preston, Ceremony Chair, and. committee members Gail Bollinger, Liz Codding, Julia Fresonke, and M.J. Van Deventer Ann Hamilton, Program Chair and Audio-visual Producer Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Thelma Burchfiel, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE BOOK 200 Northeast 18 Street Oklahoma City OK 73105-3298 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 | 18 p., 22 cm. |
Place of Publication | Oklahoma City, OK |
Publisher | Oklahoma Center for the Book |
Publication Date | 2000 |
Source | Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Collection, Vertical File |
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