August 2006, eNewsletter 
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ATTENTION
STEINBECK FANS! National
Book Awards at the Steinbeck
Festival, Salinas, CA
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The
26th Annual Steinbeck Festival
Awards: The Price of
Fame will take place
in John Steinbeck's hometown
of Salinas, California from
August 3 - 6, 2006. Presented
by the National Steinbeck
Center, this year's Festival-four
days of speakers, bus and
walking tours, films and
other events that explore
Steinbeck's work and life
and the area in which he
lived-will focus on awards
and the effects they have
on writers and their readers.
John Steinbeck was a two-time
Finalist for the National
Book Award in Fiction, received
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
and was awarded of the Nobel
Prize for Literature.
Guest speakers will include
Harold Augenbraum, Executive
Director of the National
Book Foundation and Co-Director
of the 2002 National Steinbeck
Centennial, who will deliver
the talk Nobel's Oblige,
on Steinbeck, William Faulkner
and Ernest Hemingway and
literary awards. Susan Shillinglaw,
the National Steinbeck Center's
Scholar in Residence and
also Co-Director of the
2002 National Steinbeck
Centennial, will discuss
Steinbeck Resisting Fame.
Other speakers and panelists
include:
- Lawson
Inada, the Poet Laureate
of Oregon and a 2005
judge for the National
Book Award in Poetry
who also serves as the
Steinbeck Chair at Hartnell
College and the National
Steinbeck Center
- Thomas
Steinbeck, author and
son of John Steinbeck
- Chris
Mitchum, son of actor
Robert Mitchum, who
starred in The Red
Pony movie
- Jim
Risser, former Director
of Stanford Knight Fellows
and a Pulitzer Panelist,
who will speak on John
Steinbeck and the Pulitzer
Prize
- Robert
DeMott, distinguished
Professor at Ohio University
and one of the country's
preeminent Steinbeck
scholars.
For
more information on the
26th Annual Steinbeck Festival,
please visit www.steinbeck.org.
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National
Book Award Judges to Discuss
Truth in Nonfiction,
Texas Tech University
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The
2005 National Book Award
Nonfiction judges Mark
Bowden,
Dennis
Covington,
Brenda
Wineapple
and Gregory
Wolfe will
participate in a panel that
addresses truth in nonfiction-including
their thoughts on judging
the National Book Awards-on
Wednesday, October 11th
at Texas Tech University,
organized by Covington,
a professor of creative
writing and a National Book
Award Nonfiction Finalist
for Salvation on Sand
Mountain: Snake Handling
and Redemption in Southern
Appalachia. Bowden,
Wineapple and Wolfe will
also deliver individual
talks about their work.
Bowden is author of Black
Hawk Down, a 1999 National
Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction.
Wineapple is author of Hawthorne:
A Life. Wolfe is author
of Beauty Will Save the
World: Art, Faith, and the
Stewardship of Culture.
The panel discussion and
the individual talks are
free and open to the public.
The panel will be filmed
by C-Span for later broadcast.
For more information please
visit http://www.ttu.edu.
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Symphony
Space and the National Book
Foundation Celebrate Mavis
Gallant
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Mavis
Gallant
Photo credit: Alison
Harris
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On
November 1st, Russell Banks,
Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Ondaatje
and Edward Hirsch will celebrate
and read from the work of
Canadian-born short-story
master Mavis
Gallant at Symphony
Space in New York City,
as a special focus of its
popular Selected Shorts:
A Celebration of the Short
Story series. Ms. Gallant,
who lives in Paris, is acclaimed
for her mastery in short
story writing that has influenced
American writers for nearly
fifty years. She has published
more than 100 short stories
in the New Yorker,
the third-most in the magazine's
"storied" history. Gallant
will make a rare New York
appearance at the event.
The event is co-presented
by PEN and the National
Book Foundation.
For more information and
tickets, visit www.symphonyspace.org.
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MARK
THESE DATES: The
National Book Awards and
Other 2006 Events
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August
3rd-6th, The 26th
Annual Steinbeck Festival
in Salinas, California.
Harold Augenbraum, Executive
Director of the National
Book Foundation, will speak
on literary awards and the
careers of John Steinbeck
(two-time National Book
Award Finalist), William
Faulkner (four-time NBA
finalist and two-time winner),
and Ernest Hemingway (a
two-time NBA finalist).
August 15th, Deadline
for National Book Award
Judges and the National
Book Foundation to receive
books bound galleys, and
/or bound manuscripts from
publishers for the National
Book Awards.
September 11th, Commemoration
of 9/11 at the New School
in New York with National
Book Award Finalists and
other authors, New York
City.
September 16th, Brooklyn
Book Festival at Borough
Hall from 11:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
September 20th, Announcement
of Master of Ceremonies
for the 2006 National Book
Awards Dinner and Ceremony,
site of the National Book
Awards Finalists announcement,
and recipient for the Medal
for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters and
the Literarian Award.
September 29th, Tribute
to National Book Award Winner
Maxine Hong Kingston
on the 30th anniversary
of the publication The
Woman Warrior, various
locations in New York City,
in conjunction with the
Asian American Writers Workshop
and New York University
October 11th, Announcement
of this year's National
Book Award Finalists, San
Francisco
November 1st, A
Special Celebration for
Mavis Gallant with guests
Russell Banks, Edward Hirsch,
Jhumpa Lahiri, and Michael
Ondaatje at Symphony Space,
New York City
November 2-4th, the
Literary Writers Conference,
a program of the Council
of Literary Magazines and
Presses, co-sponsored by
Donadio & Olson, the
National Book Foundation,
the New School Graduate
Writing Program, and Sobel
Weber Associates, Inc.,
New York City
National
Book Awards Week in New
York
November 13th, 5
Under 35, a celebration
of the next generation of
fiction writers, with National
Book Award Finalists and
Winners
November 14th, National
Book Awards Teen Press Conference,
at the Donnell Library,
sponsored by Con Edison.
November 14th,
National Book Awards Finalist
Reading at the New School,
hosted by Nicole Krauss
November 15th, National
Book Awards Ceremony and
Dinner
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