NY Writers Hall of Fame Established
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- January
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This spring’s Empire State Book Festival will feature the induction of 12 authors into a newly created New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
The inaugural group will include ten writers who are deceased and two living whose writings have made a lasting contribution to literature, according to today’s news release.
The writers are James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Caro, Frederick Douglas, Mary Gordon, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Isaac B. Singer, Edith Wharton, E.B White and Walt Whitman.
Robert Caro & Mary Gordon are scheduled to attend the event to receive the honor in person. Robert Caro is the noted biographer of Robert Moses & Lyndon Johnson. He is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography and the National Book Award. Novelist and memoirist Mary Gordon is currently the New York State Author. Her work includes four bestselling novels: “Final Payments,” “The Company of Women,”” Men and Angels,” and “The Other Side.”
The induction ceremony into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame will be the focus of the Empire State Book Festival Gala scheduled Friday, April 9, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany. The gala will kickoff the state’s first Empire State Book Festival, which is free and open to the public. The Festival will bring together authors, illustrators, librarians, storytellers, publishers and booklovers to celebrate the literary heritage of New York State. It is free and open to the public. It will be held on Saturday, April 10th from 10 am to 5:30 p.m. at the Empire State Plaza, where readings, author signings and special presentations will take place.
The nominees into the NYS Writers Hall of Fame were chosen by a selection committee. The NYS Writers Hall of Fame will be physically located on a temporary basis at the Albany Public Library until a more permanent location can be arranged.
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on Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 5:49 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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The Empire State Book Festival sounds like it’s going to be great. I’ve been invited to be there to present my illustration program and do a book signing. As a NY artist/illustrator of more than sixty books I’m looking forward to celebrating the rich resources we have in this great state! Thanks for informing folks!