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May-June 2014 May-June, 2014 Biblio File ‘Wonderful work is still Dennis Cremin won the 2014 Russell P. Strange book of-the-year award from the Illinois State Historical Society for Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago's being honored, celebrated’ Front Yard. ... On June 4, Edward BY THOMAS FRISBIE Love” from Selected Poems, the Poetry Gordon was a panelist in a program on he Society of Midland Authors winner that year and a selection from the future of work force development at annual awards banquet is a Harry Mark Petrakis’ The Odyssey of which Vice President Joe Biden spoke Tvaluable forum for recognizing Kostas Volakis, the Adult Fiction winner. and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez led fine work by Midwest authors, Referring to a poster on display at the the discussion. A report on the discussion emcee Paul Durica said at this year’s dinner that listed SMA winners back to will be issued by Third Way, a Wash- event. 1957, Durica said, “All of you [should] go ington think tank that sponsored the “It is interesting to be here at the back and look it over and hopefully dis- event. Also, Ed reports he is teaming up dinner that marks the 99th anniversary cover some sort of treasure.” with a British historian to write a history of the Society of Midland Authors,” Following Durica’s remarks, former of World War II, said Durica, the founder of “Pocket SMA President James Schwab presented which should be out in Guide to Hell,” a series of free and the Society’s Distinguished Service 2019. ... Gillian Flynn interactive walks, talks and re-enact- Award to another former president, was the subject of the ments. “Every year all this wonderful Richard Lindberg, who unfortunately May 11 By the Book work is still being honored and celebrat- was not present because of an illness in feature in the New ed.” the family. York Times Book This year’s event was held May 13 at “Rich has contributed in a number of Review. ... Loyola The Cliff Dwellers club in Chicago to ways over the years,” Schwab said. “He University Chicago honor the best books by Midwest authors has contributed a lot of ideas and time to has acquired the published in 2013. this organization. He is simply someone Gillian papers of Margery Flynn Durica said he decided to take a random who loves to be part of this community Frisbie for its Women look at the 49th anniversary of the [of writers].” and Leadership Society of Midland Authors, which took Former SMA President Carol Carlson Archives. A key part of the collection place in 1964. read a note Lindberg wrote when he real- consists of taped interviews, correspon- “It was an important year,” he said. ized he would miss his first SMA banquet dence and other materials pertaining to “Earlier that year, [the Society] had a in 20 years. her biography of Msgr. John J. Egan, An special event at the Sheraton Hotel, where In the note, Lindberg lauded the Society Alley in Chicago. She has written several they honored founding member George for “championing the voice of the heart- other books and many articles for maga- Ade. More than 200 people attended to cele- land.” zines and newspapers. She was a colum- brate.” Next, Tracy Friend presented the James nist for The New World (since renamed The dinner itself was held May 22. Friend Memorial Award for Literary and the Catholic New World) and Marriage “At that time there were still a ... num- Dramatic Criticism to Chris Jones, magazine as well as children’s book ber of founding members of the Society Chicago Tribune theater critic, arts columnist for National Catholic Reporter. of Midland Authors who were still alive, columnist and reporter. She has served pro bono as president, most notably Edna Ferber and Alice Friend said her father, for whom the Northwest Community Services; member, Gerstenberg,” Durica said. award is named, “had a great fondness for Board of Councilors, Alexian Brothers He read Gwendolyn Brooks’ “To Be in Turn to Page 2 Hospital; chairperson, Family Life Commission, National Council of Catholic Women; and member, Family Committee, Illinois Status of Women The Society New Literary Landscape Commission. At 91, she still writes a at Printers Row Books Taylor Pensoneau monthly column for the Arlington PAGE 5 PAGES 4-5 PAGE 7 Turn to Page 2 Biblio File n Awards Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 those who were truly skilled at writing lit- Heights Daily Herald. ... The movie ver- erary and dramatic criticism, those who sion of John Green’s The Fault in Our could effectively bring their expertise, Stars had a “spectacular” opening week- insights and personal scholarship to their end, the June 9 New York Times said. ... evaluation of the writings of others. This D. Leigh Henson recently wrote the lead year’s award winner is just that type of article, 11,000 words, in the Journal of person.” the Abraham Lincoln Association. It was Jones said a critic tends to get a warm titled “Classical reception for praising a particular work Rhetoric as a Lens for but a cold shoulder if the review is nega- Carl James Reading the Key tive. Phillips Tobin Speeches of Lincoln’s “The most wonderful thing is to get an Political Rise, 1852- award from fellow writers who don’t have reads like an action-packed spy mystery.” 1856.” ... On June 24, a dog in the game, so to speak, who are The other judges were Ann Bausum Burt Levy wrote just there to say, ‘Well done,’ ” Jones and Andrew Medlar. Biblio File to say, “My said. “It just means an enormous amount For Children’s Fiction, the winner was first novel, The Last to me.” Amy Timberlake of Chicago for One Open Road, has In the Poetry category, the winner was Came Home (Knopf Books for Young D. Leigh Henson become a bit of a cult Roger Bonair-Agard of Chicago for Readers). The finalists were Clare classic on the motor- Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books), and Vanderpool of Wichita, Kan., for sports and collector-car scenes (it’s also the finalists were Carl Phillips of St. Navigating Early (Delacorte Press) and on the recommended reading lists at Louis for Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Patricia Polacco of Union City, Mich., many libraries and book clubs and is Giroux) and Averill Curdy of Chicago for The Blessing Cup (Paula Wiseman being used in some high school and col- for Song and Error (Farrar, Straus and Books/Simon & Schuster Books for lege-level English classes) and is now Giroux). Young Readers). heading into its ninth hardcover printing Judge Donna Seaman said Phillips’ Judge Marianne Malone said it was with approximately 50,000 copies sold. book was “quite provocative” and difficult to pick a winner because “in this Curdy’s was a “particularly beautiful swath of the country we have some amaz- Turn to Page 3 work.” ingly great writers.” Introducing the winner, judge Haki R. The Blessing Cup is “a touching tribute Madhubuti said, “When I read Roger’s to family traditions and love with the work, I saw the discipline and the crafti- story of Anna, a poor Jewish girl in ness of his language.” Czarist Russia,” Malone said, The book “is the sound of language Navigating Early has “beautifully ren- breaking open,” he said. “[It’s] gut-level dered characters” and the prose is 2014, Society reading, one that you must prepare for “absolutely astounding [and] masterful.” of Midland Authors with not only your head, but also your One Came Home “is one of these great P.O. Box 10419, Chicago IL 60610 body.” Midwestern tales that you cannot put Editor: Thomas Frisbie Bonair-Agard said, “I’ve always known down,” Malone said. “I loved everything [email protected] that ... poetry could solve, could heal, about this book.” could bring truth and respite where some Timberlake, who grew up in Wisconsin, Copy Editor: Beverly Offen other methods couldn’t.” said she set out “with the desire to write a www.midlandauthors.com The third poetry judge was Mark Western set in Wisconsin.” Follow the Society on Eleveld. The story takes place in 1871 when Twitter@midlandauthors For Children’s Nonfiction, the winner Wisconsin was home to a nesting of at was Neal Bascomb, who grew up in St. least 100 million passenger pigeons that Louis, for The Nazi Hunters: How a Team covered an area three times the size of Society of Midland Authors members of Spies and Survivors Captured the Chicago. can now pay their membership dues, World's Most Notorious Nazi (Arthur A. The other judges for Children’s Fiction buy tickets to the annual dinner and Levine Books). were Charlotte Herman and Gary make donations on our website with Judge Marlene Targ Brill said the Schmidt. PayPal (there is a $1 fee to help cover judges’ choice was difficult “because For Biography & Memoir, the winner PayPal’s fee). To make a donation, visit was James Tobin of Ann Arbor, Mich., our home page at www.midlandau- this title had a lot of quality competi- thors.com and click on the "Donate" tion.” for The Man He Became: How FDR button in the upper right corner. Of Boscomb’s book, she said, “Even Defied Polio to Win the Presidency” with all the amazing detail, this book (Simon & Schuster). The finalist was 2 LITERARY LICENSE, MAY-JUNE 2014 n Awards Continued from Page 2 Biblio File Michael Shelden of Bloomington, Ind., Continued from Page 2 for Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (Simon & Schuster).
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