Readings by winning Nebraska writers and book designers will
highlight the Nebraska Center for the Book’s
Celebration of
Nebraska Books on October 26 at the Nebraska State
Historical Society’s Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P Streets,
in downtown Lincoln. Presenters will include the following
2013 Nebraska Book Award Winners:
Fiction writers: Joy Castro, Hell or High Water and
Sean Doolittle,
Lake Country: A Novel.
Non-fiction writers: Ron Hull,
Backstage:
Stories from My Life in Public Television;
Lisa Knopp,
What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi,
Missouri, and Platte; Tom Lynch
and Susan Maher, Artifacts & Illuminations:
Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley; J
ames Potter,
Standing Firmly by the Flag: Nebraska Territory and the Civil
War, 1861-1867; and
Robert Puschendorf,
Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by
the New Deal.
Writers of books for children and youth: Ted Kooser,
House Held Up by Trees and
Nancy Plain,
Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of
Nebraska’s Pioneer Days.
Cover/Design/Illustration artists: Elysia Mann,
In Times of Considerable Wars and Interludes by Don Welch and
Nathan Putens,
Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the
Depression, Fostered by the New Deal by Robert Puschendorf.
The celebration, free and open to the public, will also feature
presentation of the Nebraska Center for the Book’s Jane Geske Award
to the Nebraska Library Commission for exceptional contribution to
literacy, books, reading, libraries, and literature in Nebraska. The
Jane Geske Award commemorates Geske’s passion for books, and was
established in recognition of her contributions to the well-being of
the libraries of Nebraska. Jane Pope Geske was a founding member of
the Nebraska Center for the Book, former director of the Nebraska
Library Commission, and a long-time leader in Nebraska library and
literary activities.
This year the Celebration marks the ninth year of One Book One
Nebraska, selecting and promoting a book title for Nebraskans to
read to celebrate the literary richness of our state. O Pioneers! is
the 2013 One Book One Nebraska, and Nebraska libraries and other
literary and cultural organizations across the state are hosting
activities and events to encourage all Nebraskans to read and
discuss the same book (see
http://onebook.nebraska.gov.)
The Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting will be held at 2:30
p.m.-just prior to the 3:30-6:30 p.m. celebration. An awards
reception honoring the winning authors, book signings, and
announcement of the
2014 One Book One Nebraska book
choice will conclude the festivities.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponsored by Nebraska Center
for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, and Nebraska Library Commission,
in partnership with the Nebraska State Historical Society, Museum of
Nebraska History, and the Friends of the University of Nebraska
Press. The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska
Library Commission and brings together the state’s readers, writers,
booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and
scholars to build the community of the book, supporting programs to
celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the
written word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is supported by the
Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an
advocate for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans.
The mission of the Library Commission is statewide promotion,
development, and coordination of library and information services,
bringing together people and information.
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Commission are always available on the Library Commission Website,
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.