Concordia College

Honors and National Book Awards Weekend - March 27

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REBECCA AMUNDSEN, assistant to the dean
(218) 299-3001

AMY KELLY, Media Relations director

(218) 299-3642

THIRD ANNUAL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS AT CONCORDIA

 
Concordia College welcomes two National book Awards finalists for a two-day event March 27-28. Authors, Jim Shepard and Woody Holton, 2007 finalists for fiction and nonfiction respectively, will be on campus for a reading and discussion hosted by Minnesota Public Radio’s Kerri Miller at 7:30 p.m., Thursday evening, March 27 in Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre. In addition, Shepard and Holton will be available for lectures and master-classes during their visit. Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the National Book Foundation, will also be participating.

Shepard is the J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., and the author of six novels and three collections of stories. Shepard’s book “Like You’d Understand, Anyway,” eleven first-person stories that offer an eclectic overview of the human experience, was named a 2007 National Book Award finalist in fiction.

Holton is associate professor of History at the University of Richmond. Richmond, Va. His work has been included in the Organization of American Historians’ Best American History Essays 2006, and his articles and reviews have appeared in American Historical Review and Journal of American History among others. Holton’s book “Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution,” is the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution. The book was named a 2007 National Book Award finalist in non-fiction.

Augenbraum is a Latino literary studies scholar, who served as director of the Mercantile Library, New York, for 14 years before assuming his position at the National Book Foundation.

Miller is host of MPR’s Midmorning and Talking Volumes, the joint book club of MPR, the Star Tribune and the Loft Literary Center. She has been a radio and television news reporter since 1981.

Both Shepard’s and Holton’s books are available in the campus library and bookstore. Once the schedule of events has been finalized it will be available at www.cord.edu/Academics/Events/NBA. 
 

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