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Oklahoma 2004 Book Awards A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Oklahoma March 13, 2004 Petroleum Club Oklahoma City Welcome to the 15th Annual Book Awards Ceremony 2004 L Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome.........................................................................................................................................................B.J. Williams President, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Comments................................................................................................................................................Susan McVey Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries Master of Ceremonies...................................................................................................................Joan Gilmore Columnist for the Journal Record Greetings from Washington....................................................................................Maurvene Williams Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Ralph Ellison Award...................................................................................................................Rodger Harris Honoring Lynn Riggs Oral Historian, Oklahoma Historical Society Accepted by Leo Cundiff and Bernice Hodges Non-fiction Award Presentation.....................................................................................Diane Glancy 2003 recipient of Fiction Award Poetry Award Presentation....................................................................................................Ivy Dempsey 2002 recipient of Poetry Award Children/Young Adult Award Presentation..................................... Bettie Estes-Rickner Board member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Design/Illustration Award Presentation.........................................................M. Scott Carter Board Member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Fiction Award Presentation..............................................................................................Diane Seebass Board member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Directors Award Presentation.......................................................................................Carol Hamilton Chairman of the Awards Committee 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.............................Eve Sandstrom Honoring Carolyn Hart 1994 recipient of Fiction Award Announcements and Drawing..........................................................................................Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Billie Letts Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Honoree Music by Edgar Cruz The book sale and signing continues following the dinner and ceremony. Please enjoy visiting with Book Award Finalists and Recipients. Lynn Riggs Recipient of the 2004 Ralph Ellison Award Rollie Lynn Riggs is probably best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II used as the basis for their groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! While Lilacs opened on Broadway in 1931, and had a limited eight-week engagement (before going on the road), its 1943 musical adaptation was the first Broadway show to run for over 2,000 performances, and was later translated into a motion picture. During the first half of the twentieth century, Lynn Riggs was the only active American Indian playwright , and by the end of his life, he had written thirty plays. Once an aspiring Hollywood actor, Riggs also worked on scripts for fourteen films produced between 1930 and 1955. His best known work includes co-writing Cecil B. DeMille’s Gary Cooper Western, The Plainsman, and two installments of the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series. Riggs was born on August 31, 1899, in the Cherokee Nation, a few miles southwest of Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother Rosie was one-eighth Cherokee, and had registered herself and her children on the Cherokee rolls. His father William was a prominent cattleman and banker. As a youth, Riggs held a variety of jobs, including cowhand and singer in local movie houses. He later moved to New York, where he worked as a proofreader at the Wall Street Journal, and clerked for Macy’s department store. Beginning in 1920, Riggs attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was poetry editor for the University of Oklahoma Magazine, and taught freshman English. In 1923, Riggs first play, Cuckoo, was produced at the university. Riggs’s first play to be produced in New York was The Big Lake in 1927, which the American Laboratory Theatre presented to mixed reviews (despite a cast that boasted Stella Adler and Harold Hecht). In 1928, Riggs received a Guggenheim Fellowship. While in France on that fellowship, he began writing his two most important plays, Green Grow the Lilacs and The Cherokee Night. Both plays were set in Indian Territory, in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth centuries, depicting ordinary people struggling in a hard and unyielding land during a time of rapid, unsettling change. Riggs also wrote such plays as The Lonesome West, The Cream in the Well, Laughter from a Cloud, Russet Mantle and Borned in Texas. Lynn Riggs died of stomach cancer on June 30, 1954. The Ralph Ellison Award From time to time, the Ralph Ellison Award, honoring a deceased Oklahoma writer, is pre-sented. 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. In 2000, Jim Thompson received the award. Non-Fiction Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s Benjamin L. Alpers—University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC Alpers focuses on U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts to trace America’s understanding of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the cold war. Alpers is Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor in the Honors College, and Assistant Professor of History and Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Art Treasures of the Oklahoma State Capitol—Bob Burke, Betty Crow, and Sandy Meyers—Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc. This official Oklahoma Centennial Project depicts and describes the more than 100 works of art on display in and around the State Capitol building. The Senate Historical Preservation Fund, founded through the leadership of Senator Charles Ford, was joined by the Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Heritage Association, Friends of the Capitol, and more than 36 other contributors to make this publication a reality. Burke received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1999 for From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae. Crow is co-author of The House Oklahoma Built: The History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion. Meyers’s goal for years has been to write a book about the art in the capitol and the contributions of Oklahoma Arts Council Director Betty Price. A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains Clyde Ellis—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Folklorist Barre Toelken describes the powwow as “one of the most rapidly growing expressions of ethnic awareness and identity to be found in the world today.” Ellis has written the first comprehensive history of Southern Plains powwow culture: from its history and traditions to the vital cultural force it is today in Indian country. Ellis himself has participated in powwow culture for the past two decades. He is Associate Professor of History at Elon University in North Carolina. Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893 William T. Hagan—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK The Cherokee Commission was formed to negotiate the purchase of huge acres of land from tribes in Indian Territory in order to “civilize” the Indians and speed their assimilation into American culture. The coerced sales opened 15 million acres to white settlement, making 2004 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists possible the state of Oklahoma at the expense of the tribes who had held claim to the land. Hagan is retired Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, and the author of numerous books on American Indian subjects. Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand Stanley Hamilton—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Machine Gun Kelly’s 1933 abduction of Oklahoma City oilman Charles Urschel (“arguably the shrewdest kidnap victim in American history”) sparked a chain of events that would have lasting significance on crime fighting in America. Hamilton’s cast of larger-than-life characters of the time includes the 38 year-old director of the national police force, J. Edgar Hoover. Hamilton is a freelance writer and former reporter for the Kansas City Star. One Woman’s Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930 Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK Kate Barnard was a tireless crusader for the disadvantaged, becoming a spokesperson for child labor laws, compulsory school attendance, and a modern penal structure. In 1907, she became the first woman in the nation elected to a state post: Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. Musslewhite and Crawford detail Barnard’s life and work, including her political successes and failures. Musslewhite is Professor Emeritus of History at Cameron University in Lawton. Crawford is Professor of History at Cameron. Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers Ron Padgett—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK Padgett draws on interviews, historical documents, police records and his own vivid memories to resurrect the father he never really knew. Wayne Padgett was a study in contrasts: charming and generous, and also one of the state’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. Poet Ron Padgett is the author of more than 20 books. He served as publications director of Teachers and Writers Collaborative from 1980 to 2000. Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt—University of California Press, Berkeley, CA “The biology of lizards is a window through which we can peek at the evolutionary history of life,” Vitt writes in his introductory copy. Lizards is considered the first comprehensive reference book on lizards around the world. Pianka is Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas. Vitt is Professor of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma and Curator of Reptiles at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Searching for Lost City: On the Trail of America’s Native Languages Elizabeth Seay—Lyons Press, Guilford, CT More than 100 Native American languages are quickly moving toward extinction. By the middle of this century, experts predict only twenty tribal languages may still be in use. What do we lose when a language disappears? That’s the question that fuels Seay’s narrative as she tracks down what is left of these languages in her home state of Oklahoma. Seay writes for the Wall Street Journal. The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family—Doris Eaton Travis with Joseph and Charles Eaton as told to J.R. Morris—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK At age 14, Doris Eaton Travis was a young Ziegfeld Follies dancer appearing with such legends as Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. Her sister Mary became a Ziegfeld star, and her brother Charles was a popular child actor. This book relates the remarkable successes and poignant sorrows of the theatrical Eatons, complete with period photographs and an Eaton Family show business chronology. Eaton Travis is still dancing at age 99, running a ranch in Norman. Morris is Provost Emeritus and Regents Professor Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma. Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era James Treat—Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY This is the first comprehensive study of the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Founded in 1969, the conference was an attempt at organizing grassroots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the conflict between tribal and Christian tradition. By the mid-seventies, thousands of people were gathering each summer to participate in weeklong encampments promoting spiritual revitalization and religious self-determination. Treat teaches in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. Children/Young Adult The Painters of Lexieville—Sharon Darrow—Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA For this harrowing coming-of-age story, Oklahoma native Darrow drew on her experience of working in an Arkansas county welfare department. The tale of determination and empowerment is told from the point of view of the heroine, Pert, as well as that of her brother, Jobe, and mother, Truly. This is Darrow’s first novel for young adults. She has written several books for children. She lives in Chicago with her three daughters. The Great American Bunion Derby—Molly Levite Griffis—Eakin Press, Austin, TX Did you know a Sooner was crowned the best long distance runner in the world in 1928? Griffis’s book is the inspiring story of Andy Payne, the “Cherokee Kid” who ran 3,000 miles between Los Angeles and New York to win the first International Trans-Continental Foot Race. Griffis expresses her appreciation to Jim Ross for the “mounds of research” provided for this book. Griffis has written five books for children. Three have now been Book Award finalists. She received the Oklahoma Book Award in 2002 for The Rachel Resistance. Flying Blind—Anna Myers—Walker & Company, New York, NY Two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner Anna Myers spins an unusual tale based on a real life environmental crisis. At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of birds were being slaughtered in Florida so that their feathers could be used to make fashionable hats. In Flying Blind, a father, son, and clairvoyant pet macaw take their traveling medicine show to the Everglades. The son faces a moral dilemma when he befriends two orphans who depend on feathering to stay alive. S is for Sooner: An Oklahoma Alphabet—Devin Scillian—Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI “E” is for Enid and Elk City and El Reno and Edmond and Eskimo Joe’s and evening at Lake Eufaula. Scillian’s book is a celebration of Oklahoma “A” to “Z.” Author, journalist, and musician Devin Scillian grew up all over the world, but considers Oklahoma home. He is former anchor for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, and author of the national best-seller A is for America: An American Alphabet. Grady’s in the Silo—Una Belle Townsend—Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., Gretna, LA How would someone squeeze a 1,200-pound cow out of a silo? That’s the problem Townsend solves in this book, which is based on a true story that happened in her hometown of Yukon, Oklahoma in 1949. Sick and upset, Grady the cow tries to escape after the vet gives her a shot, only to end up stuck in her farm family’s silo. People from across the country and around the world are all too happy to give their advice on how to rescue Grady. Townsend has been an elementary school teacher for nearly 20 years. Bone Head: Story of the Longhorn—Desiree Morrison Webber—Eakin Press, Austin, TX Webber was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 2000 for The Buffalo Train Ride, the story of how the American Bison was saved from extinction. Webber now turns her attention to the Longhorn, a species of cattle that played a unique role in the history of America. Indeed, as Webber explains, if not for these creatures, we may never have had the cowboy, trail drives, or the Wild West! Webber is Director of the Mustang Public Library. Poetry Crossing the Ladder of Sun—Laura Apol—Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI Apol’s poetry explores the ordinary, mundane moments of life, transforming them into the extraordinary. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including a full-length collection, Falling into Grace. She is currently Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University. Although she now lives in East Lansing, she still considers Oklahoma her spirit’s home. Wild Civility—David Biespiel—University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA Biespiel was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. The poems in Wild Civility are the product of two years of writing in a single form: a nine-line sonnet that Biespiel calls an American Sonnet. The result was an “explosion of language” for the author. Biespiel lives with his wife and son in Portland, Oregon. The Shadow’s Horse—Diane Glancy—University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ “Wholeness is when the shadow of the rider and his horse are one,” according to a saying in the Native American tradition. In The Shadow’s Horse, Glancy employs her diverse talent with words to walk the margin between her Indian and white heritage as she writes about family, work, and faith. A 2003 Oklahoma Book Award winner for The Mask Maker: A Novel, Glancy is a perennial presence on Oklahoma Book Award finalists lists, and is also a finalist in the Fiction category this year. By the Grace of Ghosts Judith Tate O’Brien and Jane Taylor—Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK O’Brien and Taylor met in poetry class in 1992. Thereafter, they met weekly, “teaching each other how to look for the poem that had gone into hiding; how to craft it or else abandon it; and how to braid our writing lives into a long rope of friendship.” The small Oklahoma Catholic mission of Sacred Heart, now a ghost town, played a role in the family histories of both women. O’Brien currently teaches creative writing at Rose State College, while Taylor makes her living as a reference librarian at the University of Central Oklahoma. Design/Illustration Art Treasures of the Oklahoma State Capitol Designed by Carol Haralson—Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc. The last decade has been kind to the grand State Capitol. Architectural restorations, the additions of new artwork, and the soaring new dome have enhanced this historic building. The establishment of the State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, through the leadership of Senator Charles Ford, means more art is destined for the halls of state government. Haralson has received a record five Oklahoma Book Awards. Her design for this work showcases the diverse murals, paintings and sculptures currently on display at the capitol, and provides a sneak peak at some projects in the works. Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company Designed by Scott Horton; Chief Photographer, Jim Argo The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, OK This book is one of two finalists that commemorate OPUBCO’s centennial. Family Album is already a collector’s item since the company printed only enough copies for distribution to employees, families, and friends. Horton employs an intimate photo scrapbook design to pay tribute to the many Oklahomans who have worked for OPUBCO, highlighting pictures from the vaults as well as modern photographs. How Medicine Came to the People and How Rabbit Lost His Tail Drawings by Murv Jacob—University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM These two titles mark the fifth and sixth times Jacob has been honored as a Book Award finalist in Design/Illustration. He won the Oklahoma Book Award last year for The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals, a retelling of a traditional Cherokee tale. Once again, Jacob has collaborated with author Deborah Duvall to bring two more Cherokee stories to life for children today. S is for Sooner—Illustrated by Kandy Radzinski—Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI Radzinski’s art has been described as “quirky realism.” She has taught art at Central Washington State College and the University of Tulsa, and has illustrated children’s books, posters, greeting cards, and even a six-foot penguin. She won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1993 for The Twelve Cats of Christmas. She lives in Tulsa with her husband, son, and two Scottie dogs. The Oklahoma Publishing Company’s First Century: The Gaylord Family Story Designed by Jeff Wincapaw—The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, OK Seattle designer Wincapaw helps bring author David Dary’s OPUBCO history to life with historic photos, notable editorial cartoons, and reproductions of Daily Oklahoman front pages from throughout the company’s 100 years of existence. Fiction Death Row—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books, New York, NY This “master of the courtroom drama” (Library Journal) returns with another legal thriller featuring crusading Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid. This time around, Ben must save an innocent man from execution. Bernhardt is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award in fiction. He is a former trial attorney who has received a number of awards for his public service. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and three children. Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea—Diane Glancy—The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY Glancy juxtaposes excerpts from Lewis and Clark’s diaries with those from an imagined journal kept by Sacajawea to retell the story of this legendary Shoshoni woman. Glancy won the Oklahoma Book Award in this category last year for The Mask Maker: A Novel. She is also a finalist in the Poetry category this year. She has received numerous other awards, including the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Native American Indian Prose Award. She teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Letter from Home—Carolyn Hart—Berkley Prime Crime, New York, NY Oklahoma City’s Carolyn Hart has written more than 30 mystery novels, but this is the only one set in Oklahoma. Journalist G.G. Gilman receives a letter from home, which brings back memories of a sultry summer in a small Oklahoma town, when her life changed forever. Hart has won a slew of mystery awards, including the cream of the crop: the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity. She is an Oklahoma Book Award winner for fiction, and is tonight’s Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. University Boulevard—A.B. Hollingsworth—Clock Tower Press, Ann Arbor, MI This sequel to the best-selling Flatbellies follows Chipper DeHart and Peachy Waterman as they maneuver college life in the late 1960s—a time when the John Wayne world of right and wrong is turned upside down in a tornado of social change. Flatbellies was also a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. In addition to his new career as author, Hollingsworth is a breast cancer specialist. He serves as Medical Director for Mercy Women’s Center in Oklahoma City. As Brown As I Want: The Indianhead Diaries Janelle Meraz Hooper—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE Eight year-old Glory has a father who has taken out a $50,000 accidental death policy on her. Now he’s spending the summer trying to collect. This is Hooper’s self-described “fictional autobiography” of her childhood, growing up in Southwestern Oklahoma, and her second novel set in Oklahoma. Her short stories and commentaries have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers. She currently lives in Oregon. The Greek Summer—John Douglas Miller—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE In this funny and thought-provoking coming-of-age story, five young lifeguards discover the Greek philosophers, and learn that the world of mind and ideas is far more fascinating than anything they have ever known. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Cincinnati. His past publications include A Footnote on Plato: An Introduction to Philosophy. He currently teaches philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma, and lives in Edmond with his wife, Janelle. Song of the Bones—M.K. Preston—Intrigue Press, Denver, CO Preston’s first novel, Perhaps She’ll Die, was also an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, as well as a finalist for the Redmond Barry, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. This engaging second novel is also set in the fictional town of Tetumka, Oklahoma, where protagonist and amateur sleuth Chantalene Morrell becomes embroiled in a decades-old mystery. Preston lives in Edmond, where she edits and publishes ByLine, a nationally distributed trade magazine for writers. This Raw, Red Land—Voncille Shipley—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE In Shipley’s first novel, a large family from Texas moves to Indian Territory to protect a son from the law and to start a new life. Death, murder, and punishment follow them to their new home. Shipley was raised in Healdton, a town near the area depicted in the novel. She and her husband John live an acreage where they raise pecans and hay. Walking the Choctaw Road—Tim Tingle—Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX In his Introduction, Tingle writes, “…the Trail of Tears lingers deep in the memory bank of every Choctaw. We have all heard the stories. In our minds and dreams, we have walked the frozen ground carrying our dead.” Although these stories depict tragedy and loss, they also represent triumph and survival. Tingle is a collector of Choctaw oral literature. He is the recipient of the 2003 John Henry Faulk Award for “outstanding contributions to the art of storytelling.” Available in hardcover from Berkley Prime Crime Berkley congratulates Carolyn Hart recipient of the 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Carolyn Hart Recipient of the 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Carolyn Hart is an acknowledged master of mystery and suspense. Hailed as America’s Agatha Christie, she is the author of 35 novels with more than 2.5 million copies of her books in print. Hart is the first author to win all three major mystery awards for her novels—the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity awards. She has won each award twice, and is the only author to be nominated seven times for the coveted Agatha Award. She was one of ten authors appearing in the Mystery and Thriller Pavilion at the 2003 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Born in Oklahoma City, Hart began her love affair with mystery by reading Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Beverly Gray. She received a BA in journalism with honors from the University of Oklahoma in 1958. She was a newspaper reporter and worked in public relations before her first book, a children’s mystery, was published in 1964. She wrote four more young adult novels before moving into the mainstream. Hart is renowned for her two bestselling mystery series—the Henrie O mysteries and the Death on Demand series. She was the recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction in 2001 for Sugarplum Dead. Hart’s newest novel Letter From Home—a finalist for tonight’s fiction award—has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Hart lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Phil. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to recognize a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Fiction 1990, Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister 1991, Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit 1992, Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark 1993, Rilla Askew, Strange Business 1994, Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist 1995, William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice 1996, Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is 1997, Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead 1998, Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat 1999, Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon 2000, William Bernhardt, Dark Justice 2001, Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead 2002, Douglas Kelley, The Captain’s Wife 2003, Diane Glancy, The Mask Maker: A Novel 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 2000, N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House 2001, Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire 2002, Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems 2003, Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 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 2000, Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net 2001, Joyce Carol Thomas, Hush Songs 2002, Molly Levite Griffis, The Rachel Resistance 2003, Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story Children/Young Adult Ralph Ellison Award 1995, Ralph Ellison—National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City 1997, Angie Debo—“First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall 1999, Melvin Tolson—poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston 2000, Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko 2002, John Berryman—poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester Previous Winners 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 2000, Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma 2001, Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 2002, Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003, Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals 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—author of young adult novels—Tulsa 1998, Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman 1999, Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa 2000, Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha 2001, Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City 2002, World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman 2003, Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa Non-Fiction 1990, Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick 1991, Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant 1992, David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State 1993, Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators 1994, J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever 1995, Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton 1996, William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm 1997, Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass 1998, John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin 1999, Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae 2000, Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West 2001, David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory 2002, Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003, Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape Congratulations Carolyn for winning the Oklahoma Center of the Book’s Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. William Morrow is proud to be your publisher. Project Highlights The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Friends of the Center for the Book have participated in several events in the past twelve months, and have made commitments for events later this year. National Book Festival—For the last two years, the Center has participated in the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. We hosted a booth promoting Oklahoma and Oklahoma authors where we distributed literary maps, tourism guides, and information on the State Summer Reading Program. Letters About Literature—is a contest with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Target, and the Weekly Reader where a student writes a letter to an author, living or dead, telling how a book has influenced his or her life. Prizes are awarded to the winners. Kid’s Caught Reading—is an annual activity of the Center, and is part of Oklahoma’s Celebration of Reading. Friends of 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, 2004. Oklahoma Library Association—The Friends will once again sponsor a speaker at the OLA annual conference in April. Red Dirt Book Festival—The Center was proud to be a sponsor of the Red Dirt Book Festival held last October in Shawnee. Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma—The Center is proud to be a sponsor of this statewide reading and discussion program. Billie Letts, author of the Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Book for 2004, is our guest tonight. Citizens selected Letts’s The Honk and Holler Opening Soon. Information is available tonight about the second Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma “six-pack” of books. Information is available tonight on membership to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. The Oklahoma Center for the Book's website address is www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb UNIVERSITYof OKLAHOMA PRESS oupre s s.com th Ave. NW Norman, Oklahoma - tel · fax The Days We Danced The Story of My Theatrical Family From Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray and Beyond By Doris Eaton Travis With Joseph and Charles Eaton As Told to J.R. Morris At age fourteen, she was a young Ziegfeld Follies dancer appearing with such legends as Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice,Will Rogers, and Marilyn Miller. In a refreshingly wise voice, Doris Eaton Travis recalls the accolades,as well as the poignant sorrows,of her theatrical fam-ily during almost a century of turbulent change.Accompanied by unique period photos, her memoir vividly reconstructs the life of a woman who never stopped dancing—even when the curtain fell. $27.95 Cloth · 0-8061-9950-4 · 264 pages, 8 color & 72 b&w illus. Oklahoma Tough My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers By Ron Padgett Wayne Padgett was a charming and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals from the 1960s to the 1980s, a high-ranking mem-ber of the Dixie Mafia. Poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood “King of the Bootleggers.” $29.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3509-3 · 288 pages, 21 b&w illus. One Woman’s Political Journey Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930 By Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford One Woman’s Political Journey details the life’s work, including the political successes and fail-ures, of a complex and courageous woman who appreciated that she was on the cutting edge of new and novel opportunities for women. $34.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3563-8 · 256 pages, 19 b&w illus. Taking Indian Lands The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893 By William T. Hagan Authorized by Congress in 1889, the Cherokee Commission coerced the tribes in Indian Territory to sell their fifteen million acres of allotted lands to white settlers to achieve what reformers called “civilization,” and to speed their assimilation into American culture. $39.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3513-1 · 288 pages, 24 b&w illus. Nancy Berland—Oklahoma City Bob Burke—Oklahoma City Diane Canavan—Shawnee Glenda Carlile—Oklahoma City M. Scott Carter—Oklahoma City David Clark—Norman Kim Doner—Tulsa Ann Hamilton—Edmond Carol Hamilton—Midwest City Gerald Hibbs—Oklahoma City Joe Holmes—Oklahoma City Julie Hovis—Edmond Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Susan McVey—Oklahoma City Teresa Miller—Tulsa Raymond D. Munkres—Midwest City Kitty Pittman—Oklahoma City Marcia Preston—Edmond Byron Price—Norman Judy Randle—Tulsa Diane Seebass—Tulsa Alice Stanton—Norman Sue Stees—Tulsa Joanie Stephenson—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa Jane Taylor—Edmond William R. Young—Oklahoma City Friends of the Center The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501-c-3 organization. The Friends is a cultural and educational corporation to advance and promote the role of the book and reading in Oklahoma. The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book supports and further enhances the programs and projects of the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. A volunteer board of directors from across the state governs the Friends. President— B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City Vice-President—M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City Secretary—Julia Fresonke—Edmond Treasurer—Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2004 competition: Keith Allen Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies M. Scott Carter Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Mort Hamilton Chris Hardy Gerald Hibbs Angie Jackson Louisa McCune Raymond D. Munkres Donna Norvell Dee Pierce Kitty Pittman Byron Price Richard Roulliard Diane Seebass Carl Sennhenn Dewayne Smoot William R. Struby Leah Taylor Mary Waidner The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Barnes and Noble Best of Books, Edmond Bob Burke Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City Rodger Harris, Archives Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society Fred Marvel, Photographer Metropolitan Library System Oklahoma Department of Libraries The Westin, Oklahoma City Special thanks to... Sue Stees, Ceremony Chair, and committee members Julia Fresonke, Diane Seebass, M.J. Van Deventer, B.J. Williams, and Bill Young Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Glenda Carlile, Melanie Price, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young
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Transcript | Oklahoma 2004 Book Awards A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors Oklahoma March 13, 2004 Petroleum Club Oklahoma City Welcome to the 15th Annual Book Awards Ceremony 2004 L Oklahoma Book Awards Welcome.........................................................................................................................................................B.J. Williams President, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Comments................................................................................................................................................Susan McVey Director, Oklahoma Department of Libraries Master of Ceremonies...................................................................................................................Joan Gilmore Columnist for the Journal Record Greetings from Washington....................................................................................Maurvene Williams Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Ralph Ellison Award...................................................................................................................Rodger Harris Honoring Lynn Riggs Oral Historian, Oklahoma Historical Society Accepted by Leo Cundiff and Bernice Hodges Non-fiction Award Presentation.....................................................................................Diane Glancy 2003 recipient of Fiction Award Poetry Award Presentation....................................................................................................Ivy Dempsey 2002 recipient of Poetry Award Children/Young Adult Award Presentation..................................... Bettie Estes-Rickner Board member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Design/Illustration Award Presentation.........................................................M. Scott Carter Board Member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Fiction Award Presentation..............................................................................................Diane Seebass Board member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Directors Award Presentation.......................................................................................Carol Hamilton Chairman of the Awards Committee 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.............................Eve Sandstrom Honoring Carolyn Hart 1994 recipient of Fiction Award Announcements and Drawing..........................................................................................Glenda Carlile Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book Billie Letts Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Honoree Music by Edgar Cruz The book sale and signing continues following the dinner and ceremony. Please enjoy visiting with Book Award Finalists and Recipients. Lynn Riggs Recipient of the 2004 Ralph Ellison Award Rollie Lynn Riggs is probably best known as the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, the play that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II used as the basis for their groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! While Lilacs opened on Broadway in 1931, and had a limited eight-week engagement (before going on the road), its 1943 musical adaptation was the first Broadway show to run for over 2,000 performances, and was later translated into a motion picture. During the first half of the twentieth century, Lynn Riggs was the only active American Indian playwright , and by the end of his life, he had written thirty plays. Once an aspiring Hollywood actor, Riggs also worked on scripts for fourteen films produced between 1930 and 1955. His best known work includes co-writing Cecil B. DeMille’s Gary Cooper Western, The Plainsman, and two installments of the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series. Riggs was born on August 31, 1899, in the Cherokee Nation, a few miles southwest of Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother Rosie was one-eighth Cherokee, and had registered herself and her children on the Cherokee rolls. His father William was a prominent cattleman and banker. As a youth, Riggs held a variety of jobs, including cowhand and singer in local movie houses. He later moved to New York, where he worked as a proofreader at the Wall Street Journal, and clerked for Macy’s department store. Beginning in 1920, Riggs attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was poetry editor for the University of Oklahoma Magazine, and taught freshman English. In 1923, Riggs first play, Cuckoo, was produced at the university. Riggs’s first play to be produced in New York was The Big Lake in 1927, which the American Laboratory Theatre presented to mixed reviews (despite a cast that boasted Stella Adler and Harold Hecht). In 1928, Riggs received a Guggenheim Fellowship. While in France on that fellowship, he began writing his two most important plays, Green Grow the Lilacs and The Cherokee Night. Both plays were set in Indian Territory, in the last decades of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth centuries, depicting ordinary people struggling in a hard and unyielding land during a time of rapid, unsettling change. Riggs also wrote such plays as The Lonesome West, The Cream in the Well, Laughter from a Cloud, Russet Mantle and Borned in Texas. Lynn Riggs died of stomach cancer on June 30, 1954. The Ralph Ellison Award From time to time, the Ralph Ellison Award, honoring a deceased Oklahoma writer, is pre-sented. 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. In 2000, Jim Thompson received the award. Non-Fiction Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s Benjamin L. Alpers—University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC Alpers focuses on U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts to trace America’s understanding of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the cold war. Alpers is Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor in the Honors College, and Assistant Professor of History and Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Art Treasures of the Oklahoma State Capitol—Bob Burke, Betty Crow, and Sandy Meyers—Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc. This official Oklahoma Centennial Project depicts and describes the more than 100 works of art on display in and around the State Capitol building. The Senate Historical Preservation Fund, founded through the leadership of Senator Charles Ford, was joined by the Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Heritage Association, Friends of the Capitol, and more than 36 other contributors to make this publication a reality. Burke received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1999 for From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae. Crow is co-author of The House Oklahoma Built: The History of the Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion. Meyers’s goal for years has been to write a book about the art in the capitol and the contributions of Oklahoma Arts Council Director Betty Price. A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains Clyde Ellis—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Folklorist Barre Toelken describes the powwow as “one of the most rapidly growing expressions of ethnic awareness and identity to be found in the world today.” Ellis has written the first comprehensive history of Southern Plains powwow culture: from its history and traditions to the vital cultural force it is today in Indian country. Ellis himself has participated in powwow culture for the past two decades. He is Associate Professor of History at Elon University in North Carolina. Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893 William T. Hagan—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK The Cherokee Commission was formed to negotiate the purchase of huge acres of land from tribes in Indian Territory in order to “civilize” the Indians and speed their assimilation into American culture. The coerced sales opened 15 million acres to white settlement, making 2004 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists possible the state of Oklahoma at the expense of the tribes who had held claim to the land. Hagan is retired Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, and the author of numerous books on American Indian subjects. Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand Stanley Hamilton—University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Machine Gun Kelly’s 1933 abduction of Oklahoma City oilman Charles Urschel (“arguably the shrewdest kidnap victim in American history”) sparked a chain of events that would have lasting significance on crime fighting in America. Hamilton’s cast of larger-than-life characters of the time includes the 38 year-old director of the national police force, J. Edgar Hoover. Hamilton is a freelance writer and former reporter for the Kansas City Star. One Woman’s Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930 Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK Kate Barnard was a tireless crusader for the disadvantaged, becoming a spokesperson for child labor laws, compulsory school attendance, and a modern penal structure. In 1907, she became the first woman in the nation elected to a state post: Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. Musslewhite and Crawford detail Barnard’s life and work, including her political successes and failures. Musslewhite is Professor Emeritus of History at Cameron University in Lawton. Crawford is Professor of History at Cameron. Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers Ron Padgett—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK Padgett draws on interviews, historical documents, police records and his own vivid memories to resurrect the father he never really knew. Wayne Padgett was a study in contrasts: charming and generous, and also one of the state’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals. Poet Ron Padgett is the author of more than 20 books. He served as publications director of Teachers and Writers Collaborative from 1980 to 2000. Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt—University of California Press, Berkeley, CA “The biology of lizards is a window through which we can peek at the evolutionary history of life,” Vitt writes in his introductory copy. Lizards is considered the first comprehensive reference book on lizards around the world. Pianka is Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas. Vitt is Professor of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma and Curator of Reptiles at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Searching for Lost City: On the Trail of America’s Native Languages Elizabeth Seay—Lyons Press, Guilford, CT More than 100 Native American languages are quickly moving toward extinction. By the middle of this century, experts predict only twenty tribal languages may still be in use. What do we lose when a language disappears? That’s the question that fuels Seay’s narrative as she tracks down what is left of these languages in her home state of Oklahoma. Seay writes for the Wall Street Journal. The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family—Doris Eaton Travis with Joseph and Charles Eaton as told to J.R. Morris—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK At age 14, Doris Eaton Travis was a young Ziegfeld Follies dancer appearing with such legends as Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. Her sister Mary became a Ziegfeld star, and her brother Charles was a popular child actor. This book relates the remarkable successes and poignant sorrows of the theatrical Eatons, complete with period photographs and an Eaton Family show business chronology. Eaton Travis is still dancing at age 99, running a ranch in Norman. Morris is Provost Emeritus and Regents Professor Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma. Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era James Treat—Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY This is the first comprehensive study of the Indian Ecumenical Conference. Founded in 1969, the conference was an attempt at organizing grassroots spiritual leaders who were concerned about the conflict between tribal and Christian tradition. By the mid-seventies, thousands of people were gathering each summer to participate in weeklong encampments promoting spiritual revitalization and religious self-determination. Treat teaches in the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. Children/Young Adult The Painters of Lexieville—Sharon Darrow—Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA For this harrowing coming-of-age story, Oklahoma native Darrow drew on her experience of working in an Arkansas county welfare department. The tale of determination and empowerment is told from the point of view of the heroine, Pert, as well as that of her brother, Jobe, and mother, Truly. This is Darrow’s first novel for young adults. She has written several books for children. She lives in Chicago with her three daughters. The Great American Bunion Derby—Molly Levite Griffis—Eakin Press, Austin, TX Did you know a Sooner was crowned the best long distance runner in the world in 1928? Griffis’s book is the inspiring story of Andy Payne, the “Cherokee Kid” who ran 3,000 miles between Los Angeles and New York to win the first International Trans-Continental Foot Race. Griffis expresses her appreciation to Jim Ross for the “mounds of research” provided for this book. Griffis has written five books for children. Three have now been Book Award finalists. She received the Oklahoma Book Award in 2002 for The Rachel Resistance. Flying Blind—Anna Myers—Walker & Company, New York, NY Two-time Oklahoma Book Award winner Anna Myers spins an unusual tale based on a real life environmental crisis. At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of birds were being slaughtered in Florida so that their feathers could be used to make fashionable hats. In Flying Blind, a father, son, and clairvoyant pet macaw take their traveling medicine show to the Everglades. The son faces a moral dilemma when he befriends two orphans who depend on feathering to stay alive. S is for Sooner: An Oklahoma Alphabet—Devin Scillian—Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI “E” is for Enid and Elk City and El Reno and Edmond and Eskimo Joe’s and evening at Lake Eufaula. Scillian’s book is a celebration of Oklahoma “A” to “Z.” Author, journalist, and musician Devin Scillian grew up all over the world, but considers Oklahoma home. He is former anchor for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, and author of the national best-seller A is for America: An American Alphabet. Grady’s in the Silo—Una Belle Townsend—Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., Gretna, LA How would someone squeeze a 1,200-pound cow out of a silo? That’s the problem Townsend solves in this book, which is based on a true story that happened in her hometown of Yukon, Oklahoma in 1949. Sick and upset, Grady the cow tries to escape after the vet gives her a shot, only to end up stuck in her farm family’s silo. People from across the country and around the world are all too happy to give their advice on how to rescue Grady. Townsend has been an elementary school teacher for nearly 20 years. Bone Head: Story of the Longhorn—Desiree Morrison Webber—Eakin Press, Austin, TX Webber was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in 2000 for The Buffalo Train Ride, the story of how the American Bison was saved from extinction. Webber now turns her attention to the Longhorn, a species of cattle that played a unique role in the history of America. Indeed, as Webber explains, if not for these creatures, we may never have had the cowboy, trail drives, or the Wild West! Webber is Director of the Mustang Public Library. Poetry Crossing the Ladder of Sun—Laura Apol—Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI Apol’s poetry explores the ordinary, mundane moments of life, transforming them into the extraordinary. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including a full-length collection, Falling into Grace. She is currently Associate Professor of Education at Michigan State University. Although she now lives in East Lansing, she still considers Oklahoma her spirit’s home. Wild Civility—David Biespiel—University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA Biespiel was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. The poems in Wild Civility are the product of two years of writing in a single form: a nine-line sonnet that Biespiel calls an American Sonnet. The result was an “explosion of language” for the author. Biespiel lives with his wife and son in Portland, Oregon. The Shadow’s Horse—Diane Glancy—University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ “Wholeness is when the shadow of the rider and his horse are one,” according to a saying in the Native American tradition. In The Shadow’s Horse, Glancy employs her diverse talent with words to walk the margin between her Indian and white heritage as she writes about family, work, and faith. A 2003 Oklahoma Book Award winner for The Mask Maker: A Novel, Glancy is a perennial presence on Oklahoma Book Award finalists lists, and is also a finalist in the Fiction category this year. By the Grace of Ghosts Judith Tate O’Brien and Jane Taylor—Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK O’Brien and Taylor met in poetry class in 1992. Thereafter, they met weekly, “teaching each other how to look for the poem that had gone into hiding; how to craft it or else abandon it; and how to braid our writing lives into a long rope of friendship.” The small Oklahoma Catholic mission of Sacred Heart, now a ghost town, played a role in the family histories of both women. O’Brien currently teaches creative writing at Rose State College, while Taylor makes her living as a reference librarian at the University of Central Oklahoma. Design/Illustration Art Treasures of the Oklahoma State Capitol Designed by Carol Haralson—Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc. The last decade has been kind to the grand State Capitol. Architectural restorations, the additions of new artwork, and the soaring new dome have enhanced this historic building. The establishment of the State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, through the leadership of Senator Charles Ford, means more art is destined for the halls of state government. Haralson has received a record five Oklahoma Book Awards. Her design for this work showcases the diverse murals, paintings and sculptures currently on display at the capitol, and provides a sneak peak at some projects in the works. Family Album: A Centennial Pictorial of the Oklahoma Publishing Company Designed by Scott Horton; Chief Photographer, Jim Argo The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, OK This book is one of two finalists that commemorate OPUBCO’s centennial. Family Album is already a collector’s item since the company printed only enough copies for distribution to employees, families, and friends. Horton employs an intimate photo scrapbook design to pay tribute to the many Oklahomans who have worked for OPUBCO, highlighting pictures from the vaults as well as modern photographs. How Medicine Came to the People and How Rabbit Lost His Tail Drawings by Murv Jacob—University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM These two titles mark the fifth and sixth times Jacob has been honored as a Book Award finalist in Design/Illustration. He won the Oklahoma Book Award last year for The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals, a retelling of a traditional Cherokee tale. Once again, Jacob has collaborated with author Deborah Duvall to bring two more Cherokee stories to life for children today. S is for Sooner—Illustrated by Kandy Radzinski—Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI Radzinski’s art has been described as “quirky realism.” She has taught art at Central Washington State College and the University of Tulsa, and has illustrated children’s books, posters, greeting cards, and even a six-foot penguin. She won the Oklahoma Book Award in 1993 for The Twelve Cats of Christmas. She lives in Tulsa with her husband, son, and two Scottie dogs. The Oklahoma Publishing Company’s First Century: The Gaylord Family Story Designed by Jeff Wincapaw—The Oklahoma Publishing Company, Oklahoma City, OK Seattle designer Wincapaw helps bring author David Dary’s OPUBCO history to life with historic photos, notable editorial cartoons, and reproductions of Daily Oklahoman front pages from throughout the company’s 100 years of existence. Fiction Death Row—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books, New York, NY This “master of the courtroom drama” (Library Journal) returns with another legal thriller featuring crusading Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid. This time around, Ben must save an innocent man from execution. Bernhardt is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award in fiction. He is a former trial attorney who has received a number of awards for his public service. He lives in Tulsa with his wife and three children. Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea—Diane Glancy—The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY Glancy juxtaposes excerpts from Lewis and Clark’s diaries with those from an imagined journal kept by Sacajawea to retell the story of this legendary Shoshoni woman. Glancy won the Oklahoma Book Award in this category last year for The Mask Maker: A Novel. She is also a finalist in the Poetry category this year. She has received numerous other awards, including the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Native American Indian Prose Award. She teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Letter from Home—Carolyn Hart—Berkley Prime Crime, New York, NY Oklahoma City’s Carolyn Hart has written more than 30 mystery novels, but this is the only one set in Oklahoma. Journalist G.G. Gilman receives a letter from home, which brings back memories of a sultry summer in a small Oklahoma town, when her life changed forever. Hart has won a slew of mystery awards, including the cream of the crop: the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity. She is an Oklahoma Book Award winner for fiction, and is tonight’s Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. University Boulevard—A.B. Hollingsworth—Clock Tower Press, Ann Arbor, MI This sequel to the best-selling Flatbellies follows Chipper DeHart and Peachy Waterman as they maneuver college life in the late 1960s—a time when the John Wayne world of right and wrong is turned upside down in a tornado of social change. Flatbellies was also a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. In addition to his new career as author, Hollingsworth is a breast cancer specialist. He serves as Medical Director for Mercy Women’s Center in Oklahoma City. As Brown As I Want: The Indianhead Diaries Janelle Meraz Hooper—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE Eight year-old Glory has a father who has taken out a $50,000 accidental death policy on her. Now he’s spending the summer trying to collect. This is Hooper’s self-described “fictional autobiography” of her childhood, growing up in Southwestern Oklahoma, and her second novel set in Oklahoma. Her short stories and commentaries have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers. She currently lives in Oregon. The Greek Summer—John Douglas Miller—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE In this funny and thought-provoking coming-of-age story, five young lifeguards discover the Greek philosophers, and learn that the world of mind and ideas is far more fascinating than anything they have ever known. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Cincinnati. His past publications include A Footnote on Plato: An Introduction to Philosophy. He currently teaches philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma, and lives in Edmond with his wife, Janelle. Song of the Bones—M.K. Preston—Intrigue Press, Denver, CO Preston’s first novel, Perhaps She’ll Die, was also an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, as well as a finalist for the Redmond Barry, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. This engaging second novel is also set in the fictional town of Tetumka, Oklahoma, where protagonist and amateur sleuth Chantalene Morrell becomes embroiled in a decades-old mystery. Preston lives in Edmond, where she edits and publishes ByLine, a nationally distributed trade magazine for writers. This Raw, Red Land—Voncille Shipley—iUniverse, Lincoln, NE In Shipley’s first novel, a large family from Texas moves to Indian Territory to protect a son from the law and to start a new life. Death, murder, and punishment follow them to their new home. Shipley was raised in Healdton, a town near the area depicted in the novel. She and her husband John live an acreage where they raise pecans and hay. Walking the Choctaw Road—Tim Tingle—Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, TX In his Introduction, Tingle writes, “…the Trail of Tears lingers deep in the memory bank of every Choctaw. We have all heard the stories. In our minds and dreams, we have walked the frozen ground carrying our dead.” Although these stories depict tragedy and loss, they also represent triumph and survival. Tingle is a collector of Choctaw oral literature. He is the recipient of the 2003 John Henry Faulk Award for “outstanding contributions to the art of storytelling.” Available in hardcover from Berkley Prime Crime Berkley congratulates Carolyn Hart recipient of the 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Carolyn Hart Recipient of the 2004 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award Carolyn Hart is an acknowledged master of mystery and suspense. Hailed as America’s Agatha Christie, she is the author of 35 novels with more than 2.5 million copies of her books in print. Hart is the first author to win all three major mystery awards for her novels—the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity awards. She has won each award twice, and is the only author to be nominated seven times for the coveted Agatha Award. She was one of ten authors appearing in the Mystery and Thriller Pavilion at the 2003 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Born in Oklahoma City, Hart began her love affair with mystery by reading Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Beverly Gray. She received a BA in journalism with honors from the University of Oklahoma in 1958. She was a newspaper reporter and worked in public relations before her first book, a children’s mystery, was published in 1964. She wrote four more young adult novels before moving into the mainstream. Hart is renowned for her two bestselling mystery series—the Henrie O mysteries and the Death on Demand series. She was the recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction in 2001 for Sugarplum Dead. Hart’s newest novel Letter From Home—a finalist for tonight’s fiction award—has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Hart lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Phil. The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year to recognize a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Fiction 1990, Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister 1991, Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit 1992, Robert L. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark 1993, Rilla Askew, Strange Business 1994, Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist 1995, William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice 1996, Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is 1997, Stewart O’Nan, The Names of the Dead 1998, Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat 1999, Billie Letts, The Honk and Holler Opening Soon 2000, William Bernhardt, Dark Justice 2001, Carolyn Hart, Sugarplum Dead 2002, Douglas Kelley, The Captain’s Wife 2003, Diane Glancy, The Mask Maker: A Novel 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 2000, N. Scott Momaday, In the Bear’s House 2001, Carolyne Wright, Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire 2002, Ivy Dempsey, The Scent of Water: New and Selected Poems 2003, Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 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 2000, Harold Keith, Brief Garland: Ponytails, Basketball, and Nothing But Net 2001, Joyce Carol Thomas, Hush Songs 2002, Molly Levite Griffis, The Rachel Resistance 2003, Darleen Bailey Beard, The Babbs Switch Story Children/Young Adult Ralph Ellison Award 1995, Ralph Ellison—National Book Award winner—Oklahoma City 1997, Angie Debo—“First Lady of Oklahoma History”—Marshall 1999, Melvin Tolson—poet, journalist, and dramatist—Langston 2000, Jim Thompson—novelist and screenwriter—Anadarko 2002, John Berryman—poet, biographer, and editor—McAlester Previous Winners 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 2000, Carol Haralson, Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma 2001, Lane Smith, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip 2002, Carl Brune, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003, Murv Jacob, The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals 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—author of young adult novels—Tulsa 1998, Jack Bickham—novelist, teacher and journalist—Norman 1999, Michael Wallis—historian and biographer—Tulsa 2000, Bill Wallace—writer of novels for young people—Chickasha 2001, Joyce Carol Thomas—children and adult fiction author, and playwright—native of Ponca City 2002, World Literature Today—The University of Oklahoma, Norman 2003, Joy Harjo—poet and member of the Muscogee Nation—native of Tulsa Non-Fiction 1990, Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick 1991, Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant 1992, David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys, Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State 1993, Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon; and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators 1994, J. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever 1995, Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton 1996, William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm 1997, Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey Into the Tall Grass 1998, John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, Editors; My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin 1999, Bob Burke, From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae 2000, Michael Wallis, The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West 2001, David LaVere, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory 2002, Lydia L. Wyckoff, Editor, Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection 2003, Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape Congratulations Carolyn for winning the Oklahoma Center of the Book’s Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. William Morrow is proud to be your publisher. Project Highlights The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Friends of the Center for the Book have participated in several events in the past twelve months, and have made commitments for events later this year. National Book Festival—For the last two years, the Center has participated in the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. We hosted a booth promoting Oklahoma and Oklahoma authors where we distributed literary maps, tourism guides, and information on the State Summer Reading Program. Letters About Literature—is a contest with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Target, and the Weekly Reader where a student writes a letter to an author, living or dead, telling how a book has influenced his or her life. Prizes are awarded to the winners. Kid’s Caught Reading—is an annual activity of the Center, and is part of Oklahoma’s Celebration of Reading. Friends of 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, 2004. Oklahoma Library Association—The Friends will once again sponsor a speaker at the OLA annual conference in April. Red Dirt Book Festival—The Center was proud to be a sponsor of the Red Dirt Book Festival held last October in Shawnee. Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma—The Center is proud to be a sponsor of this statewide reading and discussion program. Billie Letts, author of the Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma Book for 2004, is our guest tonight. Citizens selected Letts’s The Honk and Holler Opening Soon. Information is available tonight about the second Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma “six-pack” of books. Information is available tonight on membership to the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book. The Oklahoma Center for the Book's website address is www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb UNIVERSITYof OKLAHOMA PRESS oupre s s.com th Ave. NW Norman, Oklahoma - tel · fax The Days We Danced The Story of My Theatrical Family From Florenz Ziegfeld to Arthur Murray and Beyond By Doris Eaton Travis With Joseph and Charles Eaton As Told to J.R. Morris At age fourteen, she was a young Ziegfeld Follies dancer appearing with such legends as Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice,Will Rogers, and Marilyn Miller. In a refreshingly wise voice, Doris Eaton Travis recalls the accolades,as well as the poignant sorrows,of her theatrical fam-ily during almost a century of turbulent change.Accompanied by unique period photos, her memoir vividly reconstructs the life of a woman who never stopped dancing—even when the curtain fell. $27.95 Cloth · 0-8061-9950-4 · 264 pages, 8 color & 72 b&w illus. Oklahoma Tough My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers By Ron Padgett Wayne Padgett was a charming and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma’s most elusive bootleggers and career criminals from the 1960s to the 1980s, a high-ranking mem-ber of the Dixie Mafia. Poet Ron Padgett tells the inside story of his notorious father and of how he earned his reputation as a Robin Hood “King of the Bootleggers.” $29.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3509-3 · 288 pages, 21 b&w illus. One Woman’s Political Journey Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930 By Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford One Woman’s Political Journey details the life’s work, including the political successes and fail-ures, of a complex and courageous woman who appreciated that she was on the cutting edge of new and novel opportunities for women. $34.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3563-8 · 256 pages, 19 b&w illus. Taking Indian Lands The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893 By William T. Hagan Authorized by Congress in 1889, the Cherokee Commission coerced the tribes in Indian Territory to sell their fifteen million acres of allotted lands to white settlers to achieve what reformers called “civilization,” and to speed their assimilation into American culture. $39.95 Cloth · 0-8061-3513-1 · 288 pages, 24 b&w illus. Nancy Berland—Oklahoma City Bob Burke—Oklahoma City Diane Canavan—Shawnee Glenda Carlile—Oklahoma City M. Scott Carter—Oklahoma City David Clark—Norman Kim Doner—Tulsa Ann Hamilton—Edmond Carol Hamilton—Midwest City Gerald Hibbs—Oklahoma City Joe Holmes—Oklahoma City Julie Hovis—Edmond Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore Susan McVey—Oklahoma City Teresa Miller—Tulsa Raymond D. Munkres—Midwest City Kitty Pittman—Oklahoma City Marcia Preston—Edmond Byron Price—Norman Judy Randle—Tulsa Diane Seebass—Tulsa Alice Stanton—Norman Sue Stees—Tulsa Joanie Stephenson—Tulsa Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa Jane Taylor—Edmond William R. Young—Oklahoma City Friends of the Center The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501-c-3 organization. The Friends is a cultural and educational corporation to advance and promote the role of the book and reading in Oklahoma. The Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book supports and further enhances the programs and projects of the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. A volunteer board of directors from across the state governs the Friends. President— B.J. Williams—Oklahoma City Vice-President—M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City Secretary—Julia Fresonke—Edmond Treasurer—Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank the judges for the 2004 competition: Keith Allen Mary Ann Blochowiak Kay Boies M. Scott Carter Evelyn Davis Bettie Estes-Rickner Kathryn Fanning Mort Hamilton Chris Hardy Gerald Hibbs Angie Jackson Louisa McCune Raymond D. Munkres Donna Norvell Dee Pierce Kitty Pittman Byron Price Richard Roulliard Diane Seebass Carl Sennhenn Dewayne Smoot William R. Struby Leah Taylor Mary Waidner The Center acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals: Barnes and Noble Best of Books, Edmond Bob Burke Center for the Book in the Library of Congress Friends of the Metropolitan Library System Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City Rodger Harris, Archives Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society Fred Marvel, Photographer Metropolitan Library System Oklahoma Department of Libraries The Westin, Oklahoma City Special thanks to... Sue Stees, Ceremony Chair, and committee members Julia Fresonke, Diane Seebass, M.J. Van Deventer, B.J. Williams, and Bill Young Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries: Glenda Carlile, Melanie Price, Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young |
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Literary prizes--Oklahoma Oklahoma Book Awards |
Description | Program of the Oklahoma Book Awards. |
Physical Description | 20 p.; 22 cm. |
Place of Publication | Oklahoma City, OK |
Publisher | Oklahoma Center for the Book |
Publication Date | 2004 |
Source | Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Collection, Vertical File |
Copyright and Permissions | Copyright of this digital resource, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, 2011. For further information regarding use please consult the Copyright and Permissions page, http://www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/shell/rights.php or contact the holding institution of the digital resource. |
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