Literary Masters was
a National Book Foundation program that promoted and supported
public programming across the country to highlight and celebrate
America's foremost authors past and present. The program initiated
in 2008 with Philip
Roth's 75th birthday that took place at Columbia University.
In celebration of the 60th National Book Awards, the
National Book Foundation co-sponsored a special evening,
"Nelson Algren Live!," which was recorded at the Steppenwolf
Theater’s April 6th tribute to Nelson Algren with Willem
Dafoe, Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo, and Russell Banks.
Produced by M30A Films in Collaboration with Seven Stories
Press.
www.m30afilms.com
www.sevenstories.com
In
celebration of the 60th National Book Awards, the National
Book Foundation cohosted the event Nelson Algren Live!,
Steppenwolf Theater’s April 6, 2009 tribute to Nelson
Algren with Willem Dafoe, Don DeLillo, and Russell Banks.
The presentation was part of
the Foundation's American Literary Masters, and done in
partnership with Seven Stories Press to celebrate the
centennial of the birth of Nelson Algren, the first National
Book Award Winner in Fiction for The Man With the
Golden Arm.
As part of the celebration and
in conjunction with Seven Stories Press, the Foundation
sent an eblast offering a free copy of Algren’s
National Book Award-winning novel The Man With the
Golden Arm, to the first 100 librarians that responded.
