Tate, UMass Press title among Mass. Book Award honorees
English professor James Tate’s “The Ghost Soldiers” and Patricia Fanning’s “Through an Uncommon Lens,” published by the University of Massachusetts Press, are among the titles recognized this week with Massachusetts Book Awards.
Presented by the Massachusetts Center for the Book in Northampton, the awards are presented annually to books from the previous calendar year that were published by Massachusetts authors or that convey important Massachusetts themes. The 12 titles named in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s/young adult literature will be promoted during the programming year in libraries throughout the commonwealth.
Tate won the poetry award for his collection of prose poems that explores, among other themes, hometown and the national consciousness in a time of war. “The Ghost Soldiers” is published by Ecco.
Fanning’s work, a biography of photographer F. Holland Day, a significant early 20th century Massachusetts photographer, was selected for honors in the nonfiction category.
The Massachusetts Center for the Book is the state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. It works within the network of state-center affiliates across the country to promote books, reading, literacy and libraries. MCB sponsors programming and develops collaborations that forward the cause of books and lifelong reading.
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Massachusetts Center for the Book website
June 25, 2009.
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