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The Society of Midland Authors Salute Year's Best Books
May, 11, 2005
CHICAGO, ILL.: Fourteen authors received awards from the Society of Midland Authors at its 90th Anniversary Banquet May 10 at the Chicago Athletic Club. The Midwest's 2004 Best Books-of-the-Year include:
Adult Fiction
Winner
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Honorable Mention
Bring Your Legs with You by Darrell Spencer (University of Pittsburgh Press)
The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt (Houghton Mifflin)
Adult Nonfiction
Winner
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt)
Honorable Mention
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry by Carl Phillips (Graywolf Press)
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A by Lisa M. Fine (Temple University Press)
Children's Fiction
Winner
Ida B:…and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan (Greenwillow Books/ HarperCollins Children's Books)
Children's Nonfiction
Winner
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Biography
Winner
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America by William Souder (North Point Press)
Honorable Mention
Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves M. F. K. Fisher by Joan Reardon (North Point of Illinois Press)
In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau by Larry Haeg (University of Iowa Press)
Poetry
Winner
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
Critic's Award
Eric Arnesen, Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, for distinguished literary criticism in the Chicago Tribune
Richard M. Daley, Mayor of the City of Chicago, had proclaimed May 10, 2005, to be "the Society of Midland Authors Day in Chicago," and has encouraged "all Chicagoans to be aware of the important cultural contributions of its authors."
The Society of Midland Authors is a 90-year old writer's group founded in 1915 by poets Vachel Lindsay, James Whitcomb Riley, and Harriet Monroe, among others, and novelists Edna Ferber, Clarence Darrow, and Hamlin Garland. It meets the first Tuesday of each month, October through May, at the Chicago Athletic Club with its annual awards banquet each May. Members are nominated and must reside in or be identified with one of the 12 Midwestern states.
For more information contact R. Craig Sautter, 773-262-5806;
rcsautter@aol.com
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