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Ohioana Quarterly Winter 2021 QUARTERLY WINTER 2021 | VOL. 64 NO. 1 Collecting, Preserving, and Celebrating Ohio Literature Winter 2021 1 Contents QUARTERLY WINTER 2021 FEATURES BOARD OF TRUSTEES HONORARY CHAIR Fran DeWine, Columbus 4 Ohioana at the Movies: The Sequel ELECTED 8 A Conversation with Ernest Cline President: John Sullivan, Plain City Vice-President: Katie Brandt, Columbus Secretary: Bryan Loar, Columbus Treasurer: Jay Yurkiw, Columbus BOOK REVIEWS Gillian Berchowitz, Athens Daniel M. Best, Columbus 10 Nonfiction Rudine Sims Bishop, Columbus Helen F. Bolte, Columbus 12 Fiction Flo Cunningham, Stow Dionne Custer Edwards, Columbus 14 Poetry Negesti Kaudo, Columbus Helen Kirk, Maumee Ellen McDevitt-Stredney, Columbus 15 Young Adult & Middle Grade Mary Heather Munger, Ph.D., Perrysburg Louise Musser, Delaware 17 Juvenile Cynthia Puckett, Columbus Craig Rapp, Lewis Center Chris Santagate, Upper Arlington BOOKS Daniel Shuey, Westerville David Siders, Cincinnati Jacquelyn L. Vaughan, Dublin 18 Book List Betty Weibel, Chagrin Falls APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF OHIO Carol Garner, Mount Vernon Peter W. Niehoff, Cincinnati Brian M. Perera, Upper Arlington TRUSTEES EMERITUS Francis Ott Allen, Cincinnati Ann Bowers, Bowling Green Christina Butler, Ph.D., Columbus Robert Webner, Columbus OHIOANA STAFF Executive Director..............David Weaver Office Manager...............Kathryn Powers Library Specialist............Courtney Brown Program Coordinator........Morgan Peters The Ohioana Quarterly (ISSN 0030-1248) is currently published four times a year by the Ohioana Library Association, 274 East First Avenue, Suite 300, Columbus, Ohio 43201. Individual subscriptions to the Ohioana Quarterly are available through membership in the Association; $35 of membership dues pays the required subscription. Single copy $6.50. U.S. postage paid at Columbus, Ohio. Send address changes to Ohioana Quarterly, 274 E. First Ave., Suite 300, Columbus, Ohio, 43201. Copyright © 2021 by the Ohioana Library Association. All rights reserved. Printed by PXPOHIO. 2 | Ohioana Quarterly From the Director Dear Friends, It’s a question I’m sure we’ve all heard more than once: “Say, have you read any good books lately?” Or its variation, “Hey, seen any good movies lately?” Books and movies . movies and books. The two are so related, they’re almost twins. While not every book is made into a movie, and every movie is not based on a book, it’s remarkable how many films start out that way. And books by Ohio authors have provided the source material for movies almost since the dawn of cinema. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had no less than nine adaptations in the Silent Era alone. A few years ago, we took our first-ever look in theOhioana Quarterly at Hollywood and films written by or based on books by Ohio authors. That article covered movies only to the early 2000s. With the past decade seeing a boom in the number of Ohio writers whose best-selling and award- winning books have been adapted for the screen, the time seemed ripe for an update. You’ll find it in Morgan Peters’ cover story, “Ohioana at the Movies: The Sequel.” And test your movie IQ with the quiz on our back cover! Additionally, we’re delighted to present a special feature interview with Ernest Cline, whose debut book Ready Player One was a huge best-seller and turned into a blockbuster movie by Steven Spielberg. Cline spoke with us just as Ready Player Two hit bookstores worldwide. It’s 2021, and I’m sure all of us are hopeful that this new year will be better than the last, which itself seemed like a dystopian novel adapted into a disaster movie. As I write this, vaccines have just been approved which will help us finally to overcome the scourge of COVID-19. I know we’re all looking forward soon to the day when we can gather safely once again with loved ones and friends, and enjoy all the many activities that bring us together as a community. Until then, take care and thank you for all you do to support Ohio authors and their books—and movies! ON THE COVER We celebrate films based on books by Ohio authors in “Ohioana at the Movies: The Sequel” by Morgan Peters. Cover design and artwork by Kathryn Powers. David Weaver Executive Director Winter 2021 3 Ohioana at the Movies: The Sequel by Morgan Peters In a year marked by social distancing and staying home, released alongside the movie in the summer of 2013. In many of us have found ourselves with a new wealth of advance of the historic 2008 presidential election where free time and have had to find ways to stay busy and Barack Obama became the United State’s first Black entertained. At Ohioana, one of our favorite activities is, president, Haygood had the idea to interview Eugene of course, reading. We also love movies and TV shows, Allen, a Black butler who had served in the White House and are excited whenever a book by an Ohio author is during the presidencies of Harry Truman through brought to life on the screen. In 2020 alone, we have Ronald Reagan. The result is an intimate account of the seen the release of two feature films and two television life of Allen and his wife, Helene Allen (changed in the miniseries based on books by Ohio writers, with many movie to Cecil and Gloria Gaines). The book explores others having been released in recent years. the history of race in American politics and offers perspectives on presidents as told by a man who had In the cover story of the winter 2015 Ohioana Quarterly, spent his career working for and with them. The movie "Going Hollywood: Ohioana at the Movies," we was directed by Lee Daniels and stars Forest Whitaker celebrated many of the great film adaptations that and Oprah Winfrey as Cecil and Gloria Gaines. The have been made from books by Ohio writers, from Jack cast also stars Mariah Carey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Robin Schaefer’s Shane to Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief. Williams, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, and Jane Fonda. Just five years later, many other movies and TV shows have been added to this ever-growing roster. With winter setting in again, it’s the perfect time to discuss these newer releases, including eight feature films (with My Boyfriends’ Dogs – 2014 two sequels) and two television miniseries. If you’re The Hallmark Channel is known for creating classic feeling unsure of what to do while social distancing this comedy-romance films, and their adaptation ofMy winter, we hope you will check out some of the entries Boyfriends’ Dogs by Dandi Daley Mackall is a great in this special feature. For more suggestions, be sure to example of this. Mackall is a well-established Ohio revisit the above-mentioned article from winter of 2015, author who has published over 450 books and counting available on www.ohioana.org. for adults, teens, and children. My Boyfriends’ Dogs was published in 2010 as a juvenile title about a teenage girl who stumbles into an after-hours diner in a soaked The Butler – 2013 prom dress with three dogs in tow. The film adaptation is geared toward an older audience, with the main cast The first entry on our list is based on Columbus native of characters reimagined as adults and the prom dress Wil Haygood’s The Butler: A Witness to History. An swapped for a wedding dress. The film was released in expansion of an essay written by Haygood in 2008 called 2014 starring Erika Christensen, Teryl Rothery, and “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” the book was Emily Holmes. 4 | Ohioana Quarterly Goosebumps – 2015 Few Ohio writers are more well-known than R. L. Stine. Author of the wildly popular Goosebumps series, Stine has written at least 300 books, has been referred to as the “Stephen King of children’s literature,” and his work has been adapted into video games, comic books, and a TV series that ran from 1995 to 1998. In 2013, it was revealed that a Goosebumps movie was in the works starring Jack Black as a fictionalized version of R. L. Stine himself. Stine was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in the Columbus suburb of Bexley. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1965, and later moved to New York City to further pursue his writing career. Rather than focus on a single entry in the series, the Goosebumps film follows a teenage boy named Zach Cooper (Dylan Minette) who moves in next door to Jack Black (left) stars in Goosebumps as a fictionalized version of R. L. Stine and his daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush). author R. L. Stine (right). (Photo: Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures) After unintentionally releasing the monsters in Stine’s manuscripts, the three must join together to return them George Beard and Harold Hutchins, the two fourth-grade to their books before they wreak untold havoc. The film students. is a celebration of all of the themes most prevalent in the Goosebumps series—fear, monsters, and everything Though Dav Pilkey might be best known for creating unusual. A sequel, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Captain Underpants, he has also written and illustrated was released in 2018. a large number of other picture books and novels for children. One of which, his Dragon series, was adapted into a stop-motion television series that ran from 2004- 2007 and had seventy-nine episodes. Pilkey was born in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie – 2017 Cleveland, attended Kent State University, and now lives The first entry in theCaptain Underpants series by in Bainbridge Island, Washington, with his wife. Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, was released in 1997.
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