2019 Annual Report 1

From the Chairman and the President

he great writing of the past and present can It takes a dedicated team to implement this vision. help us navigate the daunting issues we We are grateful to work with a committed and Tface today. It can open the door to a deeper creative Board of Trustees, who provide excellent understanding and acceptance of ourselves and counsel, financial oversight, and generous others. It offers a path to someplace new, with support, ensuring the museum’s steady growth endless possibilities for discovery. and financial stability. We are fortunate to have The themes and messages in American literature the involvement of our National Advisory Council, are as relevant today as when they were first a group of renowned scholars and writers from written. Frederick Douglass’s eloquent calls for across the country. Each member of the AWM equal treatment for people of color, women, and staff brings a personal passion for the museum’s other marginalized groups feel just as urgent mission. And, none of our achievements would be today. When Tim O’Brien describes the Vietnam possible without our donors — we are honored war and its toll on the individual’s soul, he is and grateful to have your support. Everything writing about every war, and he is speaking not we accomplished in 2019 was made possible only to every soldier, but to every reader. Great because of you. writing broadens our perspective, it raises tough Why does writing matter? We never finish questions, and it can give us hope. answering this question, or asking new ones. By presenting writers and their work in new ways, The American Writers Museum is not just a the American Writers Museum aims to teach, museum. It is a jumping-off point for discovery, inspire, and spark new ideas. With new exhibits a place to explore a deeper understanding of like My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers humanity and the world. It is where we celebrate Today, we curate content in new ways to reflect our love of words and their power to move us current issues, and strengthen our role as a forward, intellectually and emotionally. What are community hub and a safe space for dialogue. your questions? We invite you to continue the We extend the conversation through our public conversation with us. programs, by presenting in-person events with today’s established and emerging writers, who give us new perspectives and prose that is often beautiful, challenging, and conversation- provoking. And because the AWM has so much to offer young writers, we continue to make the Write In youth education program a focal point of what we do. Through this program, we provide an educational experience that is unique, memorable, and fun, and inspires students to write and be the voices of the future.

Chairman John W. Estey & President Carey Cranston

ON THE COVER Author photos: Top row: Gwendolyn Brooks; John Steinbeck. Second Row: Emily Dickinson. Third row: James Baldwin; Zora Neale Hurston; Gloria Anzaldua. Bottom Row: Ernest Hemingway; Langston Hughes 2 NUMBERS 1,400 &IMPACT2019 MEMBERS TOTAL 6,802 Students served through the Write In program. VISITORS INCLUDING 38,487 4,380 students from low-income households who participated at no cost to their families or schools, thanks to AWM donors 300+ writers & works of literature explored throughout the museum “I spent time in the American Writers Museum while in Chicago earlier this month and it was so inspiring as a writer and as an American. Original Tools New of the 2 Exhibits Trade Social Media NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE 686 PLACEMENTS REACH with a potential reach of 2.34 MILLION 649,000,000

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

39 AUTHOR PROGRAMS attended by 2,175 people. 3 The American Writers Museum’s permanent exhibits take visitors on a journey through the American story, from the perspective of the writers. They introduce people to great writing in all genres, illustrate how writing influences our history and culture, and spotlight the beauty and visceral impact of great writing. Through video, touch screens, and multi-sensory elements, visitors are invited to dive EXHIBITS into a world of discovery, and many are inspired to put their own words on paper.

S. Leigh Pierson Conant & Stead Family Foundation 2018-2019 Douglas R. Conant Readers Hall Writers Hall Featured Exhibits

Bob Dylan: Electric on view November 2018 through October 2019 Frederick Douglass: Agitator on view June 2018 through June 2019

John and Cathie Estey: Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation A Nation of Writers Mind of a Writer Gallery

New Exhibits in 2019

Opened November 2019 The Meijer Exhibit Gallery My America features videoed interviews with 31 of today’s most influential writers who are immigrants and refugees to the United States, from all parts of the world. They explore issues such as writing influences, being multilingual, community, family, culture and what it means to be an American. The exhibit is complemented by the Jeanne M. and John W. Rowe Program Series, featuring in-person public events with immigrant and refugee writers. Students who visit the museum as part of the Write In youth education program use specially-designed curriculum to further explore the themes in this exhibit. On view through May 2021.

Opened June 2019 Tools The Roberta Rubin Writer’s Room From Frederick Douglass’s ornate inkwell to Helen of the Keller’s braille writer, and the actual typewriters Trade owned by Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Maya Angelou, and others, this exhibit features the “tools of the trade” that were used to write some of the most important works in American literary history. Most of the typewriters in the exhibit are on loan from the collection of Steve Soboroff. On view through July 2020. 4 PUBLIC PROGRAMS In 2019 the American Writers Museum hosted conversations and readings from National Book Award winners, Pulitzer Prize honorees, living legends and rising stars. Sandra Cisneros introduced us to her new favorite Mexican-American novelist; Tim O’Brien and Alex Kotlowitz talked about writing and fatherhood, Jasmine Guillory explored the changing face of romance publishing, presidential speechwriters challenged us with the power of words, and Dave Eggers taught us more than we ever knew about coffee.

Author Events Public Conversations Samira Ahmed Love, Hate & Other Filters Dr. John Stauffer on the Legacy of Frederick Douglass Ronald Cohen Gene Scheer Moby Dick, Bob Dylan & American Folk Music in partnership with the Chicago Opera Theater Ross Gay Resisting Hate with Free Speech The Book of Delights, with Eve Ewing A Conversation with Nadine Strossen and Christie Hefner Daryl Sanders Chicago by the Book How Literature Changed Chicago That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound An Evening with Jonathan Lethem and Stacie Wiliams The Monk of Mokha Dave Eggers Performance and Conversation with Frank Waln & Tanaya Winder Tearing the World Apart Eric Hoffman An Evening with Sandra Cisneros and Fernando Flores Frederick Douglass In Ireland Tom Chaffin Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Horizons Writing Showcase Bob Dylan’s Poetics Timothy Hampton Archaeology from Space Writing the Past and Future Look Alive Out There Sloane Crosley Literature’s Lineage Joan Osborne Songs of Bob Dylan Descendants of Writers Share Family Stories Eve L. Ewing ‘1919’ Launch Party Writing to Power Presidential Speechwriters on Winning Elections Julien Gorbach The Notorious Ben Hecht Colin Asher Never a Lovely so Real: The Peanuts Papers The Life and Work of Nelson Algren An Evening with Tim O’Brien Elliot Ackerman Places and Names

Jasmine Guillory The Wedding Party Eve Ewing & R.O. Kwon The Incendiaries Ross Gay J. Michael Straczynski Becoming Superman Karl Marlantes Deep River Deborah Blum The Poison Squad Keah Brown The Pretty One Annalee Newitz Sandra Cisneros & Fernando Flores The Future of Another Timeline Aarti Shahani Here We Are David Shields Lynch, A History Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Rebecca Deng What They Meant for Evil Dominic Pacyga American Warsaw

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Leadership grant from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation In 2019, the AWM was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Saul Youth Education Program Zaentz Charitable Foundation to support the first phase of The AWM honors the past and promotes the present of American writing through implementation of the Write In exhibits and public programs. We inspire the future through the Write In youth five-year expansion plan. education program. This grant honors the legacy of The Write In program has evolved rapidly since the museum opened in 2017. iconic film producer Saul Zaentz, It builds on our exhibits and author programs to give students a fun and lasting who passed away in 2014. educational experience in the world’s only museum dedicated to the vast spectrum of American writing. The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation aims to address During a 90-minute visit, middle and high school students use specially- social justice and improve designed curriculum to explore the exhibits and do their own writing in response educational opportunities for to exhibit content. Based on feedback from students and teachers, we developed disadvantaged youth. an ambitious five-year plan to expand the program’s reach and deepen the educational experience. We began implementing the plan in the 2019-2020 This leadership grant has led the school year, by expanding our outreach to serve more students, adding twice- way for other donors to support the monthly author events just for students, and creating special curriculum for the program expansion. My America exhibit. Write In served 6,802 students during 2019, including 4,380 students from low- income households, whose museum admission and bus costs were subsidized thanks to donors to the program. Major support for the Write In youth education program is provided by the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation Other supporters include: Abra Prentice Foundation, Lead Sponsor Ralph & Evelyn Davis Family Foundation The Hammond Education Foundation Lloyd & Kathryn Bettis Anonymous 6

The AWM’s Inaugural Award Dinner

Nearly 400 friends and supporters came together for a celebration of the American Writers Museum at OnWord2019, held on April 9, 2019 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. The evening was hosted by Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and featured a performance by the Boston Typewriter Orchestra. The event was chaired by Hill Hammock and Roberta Rubin and raised more than $500,000 for the AWM’s education programs.

Wintrust CEO Edward J. Wehmer accepts the Cultural and Civic Leadership Award from AWM Founder Malcolm O’Hagan, honoring Wintrust’s strong commitment to Chicago’s cultural community and the AWM.

The Friend of the Writer award was presented to Marie Arana, author, editor, senior advisor to the Library of Congress and Director of the National Book Festival. Award-winning and bestselling author Rebecca Makkai presented the Inspiration Award to Tom Elieff, a former teacher who inspired her as a writer. 7

Our growth is made possible by generous donors. We are grateful to the individuals, foundations, and corporations that made gifts between DONORS Jan 1–Dec. 31, 2019. $100,000 and up Dominique Raccah and Patrick O’Hagan Robin and Edward Culbertson S. Leigh Pierson Conant Raymond Bennett Plunkett Cooney Philippe and Agnes De Dreuzy and Douglas R. Conant ReaderLink, LLC Judy Pomeranz Sue and Byram Dickes John and Cathie Estey Roberta Rubin PwC Margaret Duncan and The Meijer Foundation Larry Shulman and Lionel Rabb John Bisbikis The Negaunee Foundation Rhonda Rochambeau Robert R. McCormick Foundation William M. and Joan Dutton Saul Zaentz Charitable Jennifer Steans Sheli and Burton Rosenberg Steve Fitzell Foundation Alexander and Robin Stuart Sarah Schrup Gail Fosler $50,000–$99,999 $5,000–$9,999 Michael Scodro and Jack Frigo Abra Prentice Foundation, Inc. Allstate Insurance Company Tracey Zima Scodro Deborah Gelin Malcolm and Virginia O’Hagan Davinder Anand Securitas Security Services USA Mitchell Gordon Stead Family Foundation Arch W. Shaw Foundation Wells Fargo Private Bank Tom and Claire Goulding Wintrust Financial Gurminder Bedi Westminister Capital Joseph Hassett $25,000–$49,999 Lloyd and Kathryn Bettis $1,000 - $4,999 Scott Heitmann Roger and Julie Baskes Gail Bent Anonymous (2) Hugh M. Hefner Foundation Chicago Council of the BMO Wealth Management Dennis Abboud Joseph Huyler and Jackie Jackson American Writers Museum Norman and Virginia Bobins Frank and Catherine Araneo Heather and Jim Johnson Ellen and Don Clark Amy and Paul Carbone Olivia and Jonathan Bedi Christine and Glenn Kelly Jay and Robin Hammer Chicago Cubs Carol and Gary Berman Richard and Joan Kohn Hill and Cheryl Hammock Clune Construction Company Sara Bhatia Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra Jane Irwin Carolyn Curiel and Kate Boege Lorry Lichtenstein Ned Jannotta Mark Van Fleet Scott and Beth Brady Ludwig Family Foundation Catherine Mouly James and Catherine Denny Jack and Deedee Brannigan Susan and Douglas Lyons and Ted Carlson Edith and Gerald Falk Joseph Brennan & Leslie Shad Margaret Maclean National Endowment John Lillard Bill and Heather Burgess for the Humanities Lynn C. Maddox Gladys Krieble Delmas Walter Carlson Ralph and Evelyn Davis Foundation Ann McDermott Ellen Carnahan Family Foundation Martin J. Koldyke Millbrook Properties Liz and Skip Coggin John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Michael LoPresti Dave Miniat John Cole Steven and Jessica Sarowitz Mayer Brown LLP Robert Moriarty William F. Conlon S&C Electric Fund Raymond and Judy McCaskey Robert S. Murley Carey Cranston and $10,000–$24,999 Coco and Ethan Meers Ellen Tritschler Richard and Mary Beth Murphy Anonymous (2) Henry J. Munez Crest Insurance Group Gregory Mutz BMO Financial Group Northwestern Memorial John and Rosemary Croghan Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl Foundation Bulley & Andrews LLC Marion A. Cameron CIBC Bank USA Michael T. Clune Efroymson Family Fund First Eagle Bank Robert and Gena Franden Hammond Education Foundation Werner and Marleen Hein Joel and Diane Jastromb Julie and Kevin Justie Ivan and Kathy Kane Emily and Robert King Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation Angela Moore Linda S. Nagarkatti Shanti Nagarkatti Wintrust Chicago Gallery 8 John D. & Alexandra C. Nichols Elaine and Joseph Borruso Julia Karagianis Monica and Jim Pruyn Sharon and Leon Oberlander Jason Brett James Kelly Neil K. Quinn Charles O’Connor, III and Carolyn Brinkman Claire Kenny Anne and Brent Ray Susan Plaeger Sally Campbell Allison Kollar Chad Riley Kathryn and John Palmer Ann Carey and Gregg Walla Daniel Korengold and Robin S. Ross Robert and Jessie Palmer Susan Clarke Martha Dippell Joyce and Don Rumsfeld Sara Paretsky Deborah Clarkson Shermin and Stuart Kruse Peter and Mara Sagal Joseph L. Parker, Jr College of William & Mary Justin Kulovsek Michael and Cynthia Scholl Michael Power Pamela Costas Joseph Kye Roche Schulfer Kristen Prinz Sarah Crewe & Patrick Connor Karen Latchford Jonathan and Lauren Schwartz Lynne and Lawrence Robinson Philip and Julie Croll Randall M. Lending Laura Schwartz and Stephen and Ann Ross James and Peg Crowley Judy and Stephen Levin Susan Santiago Charles Rizzo John Czyzycki Robert Levin Andrew and Gabrielle John Robak Christopher Dayal and Jaedene and Charles Levy Schwertfeger John Rubin William Steinfeld Edward Liebow & Erin Younger Marsha Serlin John and Amanda Rutledge Nancy Dehmlow Michael Malkin Suzanne Shapiro John and Alice Sabl Regis and Elena Delmontagne Helen Marlborough and Jeffrey Sharp Andy Salk Mary Dempsey Harry Roper Patricia Smart Allison and Anthony Sansone Mike and Denise Dickens Betsy Martens & Gary Von Euer Mollie Starnes David and Mary Schlott Yves Dinte Mary and Peter Mavrogenes Joanne Starzec Joseph Scoby Paulette Dodson Meredith Mays Espino Joan Steel Walt Sheffler Helen DuBois Molly McGinnis Stine Joanne Stevenson and Clark and Marcia Silcox Tom and Eden Elieff Martha McGivern and Marshall Grate John Sirek & Colleen Loughlin Diana Ferguson Luis Calzada Todd Stocke Stanley and Donna Slabas Barry and Jeanette Filderman Mark Miller Eric Stone Marilyn Stewart Ann Folwell Stanford Jonathan Moore Ramello and Durkin Storino Chandler and Paul Tagliabue Deborah and James Franczek Susan Morris Karen Teitelbaum Philip Neil Tague Friends of American Writers Corinne Morrissey Dana and Karen Twible Richard Traut Mark and Cindy Fuller Frank and Jackie Murnane Lisa and Andrew Vandecaveye April Tritschler Kevin and Kathleen Gallagher Sheila Murphy Caroline Vickrey Therese Unumb and Arthur Garwin Lisa Nee Jacqueline Vossler Philip Thompson Kendal and Kenneth Gladish Bethany and Brandon Ngo Lisa Warshauer and David Simmons Vedder Price P.C. Martha and Todd Golub Sally and Luis Nieto Steve and Lorrayne Weiss Jon and Shari Vegosen Barbara Goodman Maura O’Hara Carol Wells Edward J. Wehmer Andrew and Ann Gore Morgan Olenski David Wheeler Betty and Stanley Weinberger Jeffrey and Ilene Gutman Jane Ottenberg and Richard Creighton Nike Whitcomb James Whitney John and Cheri Hayes Joanne Pastwa Douglas Wilkerson Scott Williamson Christie Hefner Patricia Hurley & Associates, Inc. Audrey Williams-Lee Karina Yuen Wong and Mike Hesselbach Susan A. Payne Adam Wolek Mark Wadley Jack Higgins Chris Perry Shaun and Christina Zhang Irv and Carol Yoskowitz Laurie Howick Jon Phillips Amy Ziegler $250–$999 Jacqueline Jackson Craig and Tara Primis Basel Al-Aswad Judith Jurin Semo and Carol Prins and John Hart Randall Albers Joseph Semo Amaze Design Sarah and Vincent Anderson Susan and Stephen Baird Sid Bala Anthony Barash Robin Bauer Stuart Baum Robert and Arlene Bein Peter Bensinger Elysa Blacker Wasim Bleibel Andy and Shaun Block Judith Block Hindy Bogner-Orenstein Kathy Borrus Negaunee Foundation Children’s Literature Gallery 9 EXHIBIT AND PROGRAM SPONSORS Tools Tradeof the

LEAD SPONSOR The Meijer Foundation

Irv and Carol Yoskowitz PARTNER SPONSORS John & Cathie Estey Susan & Shanti Nagarkatti Malcolm & Virginia O’Hagan Jeanne M. & John W. Rowe Steve & Jessica Sarowitz

GUILD SPONSORS Marion Cameron Michael T. Clune Dell Youth Education Program Efroymson Family Fund The Gladys Krieble Saul Zaentz Charitable Delmas Foundation Foundation Werner & Marleen Hein Jane Irwin LEAD SPONSOR Abra Prentice Foundation Jastromb Family Philanthropic Fund Ralph & Evelyn Davis Angela Moore Family Foundation Catherine Mouly & Ted Carlson The Hammond Education Foundation The Neilom Foundation Dominique Raccah Lloyd & Kathryn Bettis & Raymond Bennett Anonymous Larry Shulman & Rhonda Rochambeau FINANCES Statement of Activities Statement of Cash Flows - Modified Cash Basis Year Ended 12/31/2019 Year Ended 12/31/2019

Revenue Cash Flows from Operating Activities Museum Admissions...... $220,839 Change in Net Assets...... $8,632 Retail Sales: Net...... $30,510 Adjustments to Reconcile Change in Net Assets Memberships ...... $44,845 to Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities Individual Gifts...... $864,332 Depreciation...... $491,849 Security Deposit...... $100,000 Event Income, net of $198,360...... $528,024 Inventory...... $1,430 Corporations and Foundations...... $1,045,000 Other Current Liabilities...... $1,708 Space Rental...... $41,515 Other Current Assets...... $90 Program Income...... $18,632 Sales Tax Payable...... ($1,714) Other Income...... $1,748 Net Cash Provided (Used) Total: $2,835,445 by Operating Activities...... $601,995 Expenses Museum Programming Cash Flows from Investing Activities and Operations...... $2,114,263 Principal Repayment...... ($175,000) Management and General...... $529,150 Net Cash Provided (Used) Fundraising...... $183,400 by Investing Activities...... ($175,000) Total: $2,826,813 Net Increase in Cash...... $426,995 Cash Balance - Beginning of Year...... $274,879 Change in Net Assets...... $8,362 Cash Balance - End of Year...... $701,874

Expense Categories Sources of Contributions

Fundraising 6%

Government Fundraising Grants Events Administration 1% 21% Individuals 19% 35%

Corporations 8% Museum Programs and Operations 75% Foundations 35%

NOTE: These financials are final but unaudited, due to delays caused by COVID-19. Audited financial statements will be available later in 2020. 11

BOARD OF CHICAGO NATIONAL ADVISORY DIRECTORS COUNCIL COUNCIL

OF THE AMERICAN Kwame Alexander Jeffrey Lependorf John W. Estey WRITERS MUSEUM Poet, Children’s writer, Executive Director, Council of Literary Vice Chairman and Newberry Medal winner Magazines and Presses M. Hill Hammock Isabel Allende Lisa Lucas Immediate Past Chair Shaun Zhang Novelist, Memoirist, American Journalist, Broadcaster, and Executive President Roberta Rubin Academy of Arts and Letters, and Director, National Book Foundation Presidential Medal of Freedom Immediate Past Chair Chad Riley recipient Haki R. Madhubuti Vice President Roger Baskes Author, Poet, and Publisher, Third World Press Vice Chairman Marie Arana Novelist, Biographer, Critic, National Jonathan Bedi Gail Bent Book Award finalist, & L.A. Times Book Leonard S. Marcus Author, Critic, Corporate Secretary Prize winner Olivia Bedi and Children’s book historian Jabari Asim Ellen Clark John Bisbikis Treasurer Novelist, Children’s writer, Alice McDermott Literary critic, and Educator Novelist, Educator, and Werner Hein Wasim Bliebel National Book Award winner Vice Chairman A. Scott Berg Sarah Campbell Biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Azar Nafisi Jane Irwin National Book Award winner Author and Professor Vice Chairman Margaret Duncan Billy Collins Joyce Carol Oates Malcolm O’Hagan Art Garwin U.S. Poet Laureate and Educator Novelist and Educator Founder Heather Grove Maureen Corrigan Roxana Robinson Jerre Stead Journalist, Author, Professor, and Novelist, Biographer, and Critic Vice Chairman Julianne Hartzell Literary Critic, The Washington Post, Marilynne Robinson Jason Hsu and NPR Novelist, Essayist, Educator, Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award Marie Arana Adam Kelly Rita Dove Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Essayist, finalist, Library of Congress Prize for Olivia Bedi Claire Gorman Kenny Educator, and Pulitzer Prize winner American Fiction winner Gail Bent Max Rudin Shermin Kruse Stuart Dybek Allan E. Bulley, III Poet and Fiction writer Publisher, Library of America Marion Cameron Stuart Kruse Jennifer Egan George Saunders Novelist, Short story writer, Fiction Writer and Educator S. Leigh Pierson Conant Sonia Mathew and Pulitzer Prize winner Donna Seaman Carolyn Curiel Katy Mickelson Dave Eggers Senior Editor, Booklist, American Library Association Edith Falk Nhan Nguyen Author, Editor, Publisher, Robert Franden National Book Award finalist, Lisa See Anne Ray & L.A. Times Book Prize winner Novelist, Memoirist, and Jay Hammer Asian/Pacific American Brent Ray Louise Erdrich Julie Justie Novelist, Bookseller, National Book Award for Literature winner Ivan P. Kane Laura Schwartz Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Anna Deavere Smith and Library of Congress Prize for Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Playwright, Actress, Educator, and Mark Smith American Fiction winner Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize winner Coco Meers Lilibet Snellings Elliot Figman Ilan Stavans Catherine Mouly Poet and Executive Director, Editor, Essayist, Caroline Vickrey Poets & Writers Foundation Grove Mower Translator and Educator Richard Murphy Matthew Walch Reginald Gibbons Natasha Trethewey Poet, Author, and Professor Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Judy Pomeranz Britt Yackey Nikki Giovanni Jr. Educator, and Pulitzer Prize winner Dominique Raccah Christina Zhang Poet, Essayist, Activist, and Educator Scott F. Turow Lynne Robinson Adam Gopnik Novelist and Memoirist Amanda Rutledge Author, Journalist, and Viet Thanh Nguyen George Polk Award winner Sarah Schrup Novelist, Educator, Joy Harjo Pulitzer Prize winner, and Michael Scodro Poet, Writer, Musician, Playwright, Asian/Pacific American Larry Shulman and Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Award for Literature winner Foundation Tom Staley Edward Widmer Historian and Scholar Shaun Zhang Juan Felipe Herrera Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Performer, Cartoonist, and Educator 12

AFFILIATES STAFF The AWM Affiliates Program fosters collaboration among American author Carey Cranston museums and homes to increase interest in the works of our great American writers. President This program helps increase the national scope of the AWM. MUSEUM OPERATIONS Christopher Burrow Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House Longfellow House – George Washington’s Director of Operations Nelson Algren Museum of Miller Beach Headquarters National Historic Site Christina Carrera Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Garden The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies Facilities Supervisor Herman Melville’s Arrowhead Westerly Library & Wilcox Park Ari Bachechi Margaret Wise Brown The Merwin Conservancy Data Operations Coordinator William Cullen Bryant Homestead The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society STORYTELLERS Pearl S. Buck Birthplace at Steepletop Margaret Mitchell House Courtney Borjas Pearl S. Buck House Olivia Brownlee Monroe County Museum John Muir National Historic Site Cassidy Kearns Truman Capote & Harper Lee John G. Neihardt State Historic Site Matt Masino National Willa Cather Center Andalusia: The Home of Flannery O’Connor Zoe Nyman Jake Trapp The Pat Conroy Literary Center Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site Emily Dickinson Museum Monte Cristo Cottage PROGRAMS The Homestead and The Evergreens William Sidney Porter, O. Henry Museum Allison Sansone Program Director Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Poe Baltimore Paul Laurence Dunbar House Edgar Allan Poe Museum Sonal Shukla Assistant Director of The Old Manse Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park Ralph Waldo Emerson Programming and Education & Nathaniel Hawthorne James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home Bisola Sosan Concord Museum Theodore Roethke Home Museum Assistant Director of Programming Ralph Waldo Emerson Will Rogers Memorial Museums and Education (temporary) & Henry David Thoreau Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site MARKETING AND EVENTS Rowan Oak Carl Sandburg State Historic Site William Faulkner Karie McGahan The William Saroyan House Museum Director of Marketing & Private Events Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Cherokee Nation, Catherine Ryan Robert Frost Farm Sequoyah’s Cabin Museum Assistant Director of Hamlin Garland Homestead The National Steinbeck Center Marketing & Private Events Georgia Writers Museum Harriet Beecher Stowe House Nate King Edward Gorey House Content and Communications Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Coordinator Woody Guthrie Center Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site DEVELOPMENT Alex Haley Museum & Interpretive Center Thoreau Farm The Wren’s Nest – Joel Chandler Harris Thurber House Linda Dunlavy Director of Development Georgia Writers Museum The Mark Twain House & Museum Nikki Geslani The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Mark Twain Home Foundation Association – Nathaniel Hawthorne Development & Membership Associate The John Updike Childhood Home Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home Museum Emily Decker-Bess Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Development and Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Special Projects Coordinator and Educational Center Margaret Walker Center Washington Irving’s Sunnyside Noah Webster House INTERNS Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Eudora Welty House and Garden Hannah Bradford Lake Forest College Jihan Davis University of Pennsylvania Helen Hunt Jackson Edith Wharton, The Mount Frankie Paar Lake Forest College Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Claire Schultz University of Chicago Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation John Greenleaf Whittier Birthplace Christian Thorsberg Northwestern University Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove VOLUNTEERS The Beat Museum – Jack Kerouac Laura Ingalls Wilder Jennifer Buehler The Beauregard-Keyes House Historic Home & Museum Susan Duan Frances Parkinson Keyes Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum Kara Friederich Hillary Scaletta Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site Thomas Wolfe Memorial Laura Sterkel Jack London State Historic Park Chuck West 14 COMING SOON A new exhibit in the Roberta Rubin Writer’s Room

RAY BRADBURY INEXTINGUISHABLE

Opening in fall 2020, Ray Bradbury: Inextinguishable will explore the enduring, and sometimes unexpected, influence of Ray Bradbury and his enduring legacy. Visitors will see original manuscripts, personal items, and the typewriter and desk on which Bradbury wrote many of his famous works!

The mission of the American Writers Museum is to engage the public in celebrating American writers and exploring their influence on our history, our identity, our culture, and our daily lives.

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