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Riverdale Neighborhood
House
Bronx, New York
March 21st, 1996
 The
Foundation's March 21 Settlement House program kicked
off at 12:30 p.m. when award-winning adult and children's
book author Myron
Levoy visited with
seniors, elementary school children, teens, and staff
at the Riverdale Neighborhood House in the Bronx.
Weeks before the visit, participants at the Settlement
House read Mr. Levoy's book Alan and Naomi, which was
a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1980 and later
adapted as a motion picture. Mr. Levoy showed clips
from the movie and discussed the differences between
film and the written word as mediums of communication.
He also talked about the writing process, answer questions,
and explore various issues raised in the book, including
racism and
the holocaust.
The National Book Foundation's
Settlement House program is made possible through funding
by the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, the McGraw-Hill
Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts,
and the National Endowment for the Arts. Little, Brown
& Company made a generous donation of books to the
program. The University of Illinois Press and HarperCollins
Publishers offered books at a discount, which were purchased
and donated to each participant and the Settlement House
libraries by the National Book Foundation.
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