Oklahoma Center for the Book. 2003 Oklahoma Book Award Program.

              Oklahoma 2003 A Celebration of Oklahoma
Books and Authors
Book Awards
March 8, 2003
Petroleum Club
Oklahoma City
Welcome to the
14th Annual
Oklahoma
Book Awards
Ceremony
Oklahoma Book Awards 2003
Welcome........................................................................................................... B.J. Williams
President, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book
Comments..................................................................................................... Susan McVey
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
Master of Ceremonies................................................................................ Joan Gilmore
Columnist for The Journal Record
Read Y’All...................................................................................................... M. Scott Carter
Metropolitan Library System
Children/Young Adult Award Presentation................................. Molly Levite Griffis
Recipient of 2002 award for children/young adult
Poetry Award Presentation........................................................................ Ivy Dempsey
Recipient of 2002 award for poetry
Fiction Award Presentation........................................................................ Gerald Hibbs
Board Member, Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book
Design/Illustration Award Presentation............................................ Louisa McCune
Editor in Chief, Oklahoma Today
Non-fiction Award Presentation................................................................ Judy Randle
Tulsa World Book Editor
Introduction of .......................................................................................... Craig Womack
2003 Lifetime Achievement Department of English, University of Oklahoma
Award Winner
2003 Lifetime Achievement Award................................................................ Joy Harjo
Announcements......................................................................................... Glenda Carlile
Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Music by Edgar Cruz
The book sale and signing continues following the dinner and ceremony. Please enjoy visiting with Book Award Finalists and Recipients.
Fiction
Criminal Intent—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books, New York, NY
Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid is back in action, this time defending a priest with renegade
views and a violent temper. Bernhardt, an attorney himself, is often called “the master of
the courtroom drama.” The author of fifteen books, he has twice won the Oklahoma Book
Award in the Fiction category: in 1995 for Perfect Justice, and in 2000 for Dark Justice. He
lives in Tulsa with his wife Kirsten, and their children, Harry, Alice, and Ralph.
The Mask Maker: A Novel—Diane Glancy—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, travels Oklahoma
teaching students the custom of mask making. As Edith works to reach students on an
intuitive, creative level, she confronts her own questions about identify and meaning.
Glancy was, herself, an artist-in-residence for the Oklahoma State Arts Council. Today,
she is a Professor of English at Macalester College in Minnesota. She has been a finalist
for the Oklahoma Book Award in the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction categories.
The Wailing Wind—Tony Hillerman—Harper Collins, New York, NY
The recipient of the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achieve-ment
Award in 1991, Hillerman is also Past President of the Mystery Writers of America
and has received its Edgar and Grand Master Awards. Other honors include the Navajo
Tribe’s Special Friend Award. In The Wailing Wind, he combines knowledge of Navajo
country and traditions with his mystery writing skills. He and his wife Marie live in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Shell Shaker—LeAnne Howe—Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA
Two murders, separated by more than two centuries, form the framework for this story
about the strength of love, family, culture and heritage. It is the destiny of the women
in a Choctaw family to solve both murders with the help of the Shell Shaker, a power-ful
spirit and a peacemaker of the Choctaw people. A fiction writer, playwright, scholar
and poet, Howe is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She cur-rently
lives in Ohio.
Oblivion’s Altar
2003 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
David Marion Wilkinson—New American Library/Penguin Putnam, New York, NY
Once a respected warrior, the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge was later
considered a traitor, hunted down by his own tribe. Based on historical events, Wilkin-son’s
novel details the Ridge’s contribution to the survival of the Cherokee Nation, a
contribution that would be forgotten on the infamous Trail of Tears. Wilkinson is an
award-winning author who lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.
Children/Young Adult
The Babbs Switch Story—Darlene Bailey Beard—Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, NY
Babbs Switch, Oklahoma was a real town, and a thriving community until a fire in its
one-room schoolhouse claimed the lives of thirty-six people on Christmas Eve, 1924.
Based on this true story that made national headlines, Bailey Beard’s novel is also filled
with warmth and humor, and told in the sparkling voice of a spunky, irreverent hero-ine.
The author is a frequent speaker to young people, and lives in Norman with her
two children, Spencer and Karalee.
Tulsa Burning—Anna Myers—Walker and Company, New York, NY
While there have been many articles and books in recent years on the tragedy of
the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Myers wanted to add a book for young people to that list,
because “it is the young who must learn from mistakes made by earlier generations.”
Author of eleven books for young people, Myers is a two-time winner of the Oklahoma
Book Award in the Children/Young Adult Category. She won in 1993 for Red Dirt Jessie
and in 1996 for Graveyard Girl. She has recently moved to Tulsa.
Goosed—Bill Wallace—Holiday House, New York, NY
When his owners receive a mysterious box, T.P. the dog decides to investigate. T.P. does
not know how to react to a new … puppy. A prolific writer, Wallace has written or co-written
25 novels for young people and won numerous awards. He received the 2000
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
A former elementary teacher and principal, he and his wife Carol, also a writer, live in
Chickasha.
Wingwalker—Rosemary Wells—Hyperion Books for Children, New York, NY
Wingwalker takes us back to a small town in Oklahoma shortly after the droughts of
the Dust Bowl. Second-grader Reuben’s secure life has vanished, and he needs a mea-sure
of love and courage. Wells shows us a lost America, of small farms and county fairs
where men and women danced on the wings of planes for a few dollars. A versatile
author, Wells is renowned for her outstanding picture books. She lives in Westchester
County, New York.
Poetry
Contradictions—Alfred Corn—Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
In his ninth book of poems, Corn explores multiple and often opposing viewpoints to
illuminate objects, places and ideas. Corn was raised in Georgia and earned degrees
from Emory and Columbia University. He is a visiting professor at Oklahoma State Uni-versity
in Stillwater, and held the 2001-2002 Bell Chair at the University of Tulsa.
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems
Joy Harjo—W.W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
This collection offers a selection of Joy Harjo’s body of work, including new poetry
written within the past four years, as well as author commentary on the individual
poems. Harjo received the 1995 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry for The Woman Who
Fell from the Sky. She is tonight’s recipient of the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s Arrell
Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Book of Jade—Yun Wang—Story Line Press, Ashland, OR
This work was selected from 900 entries to receive the 15th Annual Nicholas Roerich
Poetry Prize. Yun Wang employs the heart of a poet and the mind of a scientist to plot
the hidden meanings in experiences both personal and universal, horrifying and beau-tiful.
She was born in a small town in Southwest China in 1964 and came to the United
States to study physics in 1985. She is an assistant professor specializing in theoretical
cosmology at the University of Oklahoma.
Design/Illustration
Cherokee—Photography by David Fitzgerald—Graphic Arts Center Publishing, Portland, OR
This is the first large-format photo-essay book about the Cherokee people’s history
and culture. Fitzgerald’s photographs, which capture the diversity and common values
of his subjects, were shown in a Smithsonian exhibition, Cherokee: A Portrait of a People.
The Oklahoma City native received the 1999 Oklahoma Book Award in this category
for Bison: Monarch of the Plains.
Andiamo, Weasel!—Illustrated by Jon Goodell—Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY
Goodell earned his degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma and has
worked as an illustrator ever since. His paintings of the gorgeous Tuscan landscape
grace this trickster tale about a weasly weasel who takes advantage of an industrious
crow. In righting the wrong, the crow discovers she may be piccola in size, but she is
grande in spirit.
The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals—Drawings by Murv Jacob
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
Jacob is an award-winning artist and pipe maker who makes his home in Tahlequah.
This marks the fourth time he has been honored as an Oklahoma Book Award finalist
in design and illustration. The Great Ball Game is inspired by an ancient Cherokee story
about courage, creativity and determination. Jacob’s drawings bring the characters of
this legend to life for a new generation of children.
Will Rogers—Illustrated by Mike Wimmer—Silver Whistle / Harcourt, Inc., San Diego, CA
Norman’s Michael Wimmer received the 1995 Oklahoma Book Award in design/
illustration for All the Places to Love, and his book Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth was
named a Notable Children’s Book by the American Library Association. For Will Rogers,
Wimmer’s illustrations capture the state’s favorite son from his boyhood days in Okla-homa
to his role as a citizen of the world.
Non-Fiction
Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Alfred L. Brophy—Oxford University Press, New York, NY
Drawn on extensive contemporary accounts and court documents, Brophy offers a
gut-wrenching portrait of mob violence and racism. In addition to the revelations
and stark narrative of the events of 1921, Brophy also considers the case surrounding
reparations for the victims of the riot and the implications for other reparations move-ments,
including those for slavery. Brophy, who contributed to the report to the Tulsa
Race Riot Commission, is professor of law at the University of Alabama.
Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz—City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA
A dedicated activist and one of the founders of the early women’s liberation move-ment,
Dunbar-Ortiz tells about her decades of involvement with Students for a
Democratic Society, the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, the African
National Congress, among other groups and causes. Through a working-class, feminist
lens, this is a fascinating view of one of the most extraordinary times in U.S. history.
Dunbar-Ortiz is professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies at
California State University, Hayward. She grew up in Piedmont.
Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure
—Richard Green—University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Set against the historical, political, economic, and social upheavals of the Dawes allot-ment
program, Green, tribal historian for the Chickasaw Nation, recounts the life of Te
Ata. From her early life in Tishomingo to her performances before European royalty
and across the Americas, Te Ata’s special talent for collecting, adapting, and perform-ing
the stories of her Chickasaw family is displayed through personal papers, memora-bilia,
letters and photographs.
An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887
Kevin J. Hayes—University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
Described as “an entertaining, informative, and well-written romp across late-nine-teenth-
century America,” Hayes meticulously compiled this fascinating account of
a cross-country bicycle ride. Accomplished by newspaperman George Nellis (1965-
1948), the trip was re-constructed using Nellis’ letters and media coverage about his
journey. Presented in compelling detail, the reader gains a close-up view of America
and Americans of the time. Hayes is professor of English at the University of Central
Oklahoma in Edmond.
Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and its Legacy
James S. Hirsch—Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
Hirsch has produced an extensive investigation into the causes of the race riot, includ-ing
what he has called de facto apartheid, and the legacy the riot has left during the
past eight decades. Tracing how the memory of the riot gradually revived through
the work of academics and ordinary citizens of all colors, Hirsch addresses the ironies
in today’s battles about affirmative action and reparations. Hirsch is a former staff
reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal; he lives in the Boston area.
A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape
Michael A. Mares—Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Hostile habitats can reveal remarkable behavioral, physiological, and ecological adap-tations
to field observers with fortitude enough to struggle through the perils and pit-falls
awaiting them. Deserts denote barren wasteland, but Mares, while revealing inti-mately
the biologist’s life in the field, presents his life-filled findings from the deserts of
Argentina, Iran, Egypt, and the American Southwest. The driving force in the establish-ment
of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Okla-homa,
and its former director, Mares serves as the museum’s curator of mammals.
Prayer on Top of the Earth: The Spiritual Universe of the Plains Apaches
Kay Parker Schweinfurth—University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO
The important ethnographic information about the Plains Apaches is preserved in this
work about the spiritual lives of the tribe. From the U.S. Government ban on native
religions, to the arrival of the evangelicals, to the birth of the peyote religion, this work
reveals the Apaches’ spiritual challenges, in part, through the eyes of the last surviv-ing
primary repositories of Apache history. Schweinfurth is a native Oklahoman and a
research anthropologist.
Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M
W.K. Stratton—Crown Publishers, New York, NY
This historic football and cultural rivalry, once postponed because the fans were just
too violent, is chronicled in vivid detail. In ethnographic style, Stratton describes the
cultural divide, capturing the color and deeper significance of this game by victories
and defeats, triumph and tragedy. Stratton, who was raised in Oklahoma, writes for the
Dallas Morning News and has contributed to many national magazines.
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Circe Sturm—University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
This insightful analysis probes the intersection of race and national identity. Sturm
considers the social and political construction of Cherokee identity, as well as the
blood connections to the tribe. Combining contemporary ethnography with ethnohis-tory,
the meanings and significance of race and identity are considered, along with
the dangers of linking them. Strum is assistant professor of anthropology and Native
American studies at the University of Oklahoma.
What Color is a Conservative? My Life and My Politics
J.C. Watts Jr. with Chriss Winston—Harper Collins, New York, NY
A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Watts relates the stories of his
early life in Eufaula, his years as an Oklahoma Sooner quarterback, his years in politics,
and his decision to retire. The first black Republican elected to Congress from a south-ern
state since Reconstruction, Watts, in straight talk, shares his perspectives about the
nation’s parties and politics.
Joy Harjo
Recipient of the 2003 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
Recognized as one of America’s foremost poets, Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa and is an
enrolled member of the Muscogee Nation. She received the Oklahoma Book Award in
1995 in the poetry category for The Woman Who Fell From the Sky.
She is a high school graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New
Mexico where she studied painting and theater, not poetry and music. She received
a BA degree from the University of New Mexico followed by an M.F.A. from the
University of Iowa. She began writing poetry when the national Indian political climate
demanded singers and speakers, and was taken by the intensity in the craft.
She has published seven books of poetry. They include: The Last Song, She Had Some
Horses, In Mad Love and War, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, A Map to the Next World,
and What Moon Drove Me to This? Her most recent book, How We Became Human, New
and Selected Poems is nominated for a 2003 Oklahoma Book Award.
Awards for her writing include the 2002 Beyond Margins Award from the PEN
American Center, the 2001 American Indian Festival of Words Author Award from
the Tulsa City County Library, the 2000 Western Literature Association Distinguished
Achievement Award, the 1988 Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award, the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William
Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also a member of the
National Council on the Arts.
Harjo was the narrator for the Native American series on Turner Network and
the narrator for the Emmy award-winning show, Navajo Codetalkers for National
Geographic.
Currently living in Honolulu, Hawaii, Harjo travels nationally and internationally
playing saxophone with her band.
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.
Previous 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
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
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
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
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
2000, Bill Wallace—prolific and popular 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—Norman
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
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
Children/Young Adult
The Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries is
a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Oklahoma’s
Center, begun in 1986, was the fourth state center formed. The mission of the Oklahoma
Center for the Book is to promote the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma
authors; to promote the literary heritage of the state; and to encourage reading for
pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages.
Project Highlights
The Oklahoma Center for the Book (OCB) 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.
The Center had a table promoting Oklahoma and Oklahoma authors at the National
Book Festival in Washington, DC in September. We handed out our literary maps,
information on the OCB and had a display and brochures on Ralph Ellison and the
celebration of the 50th anniversary of Invisible Man.
FOLIO (Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma) named the Ralph Ellison Library in Oklahoma
City, the 2002 Literary Landmark. The Center was pleased to be a part of this
celebration, as well as supporting the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Invisible
Man by the Metropolitan Library System of Oklahoma County.
Kids Caught Reading is an annual activity of the Center, and is part of Oklahoma’s
Celebration of Reading. 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 11, 2003.
The Center is pleased to be on the steering committee of Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma, a
reading and discussion program to celebrate Oklahoma’s 100th birthday. Information is
available tonight.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book's website address is www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb
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
Angie Jackson—Tulsa
Susan McVey—Oklahoma City
Teresa Miller—Tulsa
Kitty Pittman—Oklahoma City
Marcia Preston—Edmond
Byron Price—Norman
Diane Seebass—Tulsa
Alice Stanton—Norman
Sue Stees—Tulsa
Joanie Stephenson—Tulsa
Laurie Sundborg—Tulsa
Jane Taylor—Edmond
M.J. Van Deventer—Oklahoma City
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—Lynn McIntosh—Ardmore
Secretary—Julia Fresonke—Edmond
Treasurer—Bettie Estes-Rickner—Mustang
The Oklahoma Center for the Book
wishes to thank the judges
for the 2003 competition:
Keith Allen
Dan Blanchard
Mary Ann Blochowiak
M. Scott Carter
Evelyn Davis
Bettie Estes-Rickner
Kathryn Fanning
Ann Hamilton
Mort Hamilton
Chris Hardy
Angie Jackson
Gayle Jones
Louisa McCune
Donna Norvell
Dee Pierce
Kitty Pittman
Byron Price
Diane Seebass
Carl Sennhenn
Dewayne Smoot
Sandra Soli
William R. Struby
Leah Taylor
James R. Tolbert III
Mary Waidner
The Center acknowledges the generous
contributions of the following organizations
and individuals:
Best of Books, Edmond
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
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
Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association
The Westin, Oklahoma City
Special thanks to...
M.J. Van Deventer, Ceremony Chair, and
committee members Diane Seebass,
Sue Stees, and B.J. Williams
Public Information Office—Oklahoma Department of Libraries:
Glenda Carlile, Ann Hamilton, Melanie Price,
Bill Petrie, Bill Struby, and Bill Young
200 Northeast 18 Street
Oklahoma City
OK 73105-3298
www.odl.state.ok.us/ocb • 1-800-522-8116