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Dear Librarians,

Below you will find the press release announcing the recipients of the
Ohioana Library's annual Ohioana Awards. Perhaps you would like to help us
promote Ohio authors and Ohioana Day by doing a display of this year's Award
winning books, and the books written by other Ohioana Award recipients such
as Jack Matthews - Career Award winner, Jan Wahl - Children's Literature
Award winner, and James Reiss - Krout Poetry Award winner. The awards will
be present at our Ohioana Day luncheon on October 22, 2005. If you will
like more information about Ohioana Day, please let me know. We are also
now accepting nominations for the 2006 Ohioana Awards. I would be happy to
send you a copy of any of the nomination forms or they can be accessed at:
http://www.oplin.org/page.php?Id=66-59-279&msg=
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ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us <mailto:ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us> 
Ohioana Award Winners Announced
Columbus, OH - Sept. 1, 2005. . . .Linda Hengst, executive director of the
Ohioana Library Association, has announced the recipients of the 2005
Ohioana Awards. "These outstanding individuals represent the very best of
Ohio's literary, musical and artistic talent," she said. "We are proud to
have the opportunity to honor them in this way."
This year, 16 people will be recognized at the annual luncheon and awards
ceremony. Author and professor Jack Matthews of Athens is the recipient of
the 2005 Ohioana Career Award, given to an Ohio native for a lifetime of
service to the arts and humanities; and artist and sculptor Alfred Tibor of
Columbus has been chosen for the 2005 Pegasus Award, which honors a native
or non-native Ohioan for outstanding cultural achievements. The recipients
of the Ohioana Book Awards, Ohioana Citations and Named Awards are listed
below (a detailed profile of each award recipient, listed in alphabetical
order, is also attached, and digital photos are available upon request):
Ohioana Book Awards-awarded for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, juvenile books,
and books about Ohio or Ohioans.
For Fiction: About Grace by Anthony Doerr from Parma/Cleveland, Ohio.
For Nonfiction (two recipients): 
	Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It Is Necessary
to Give by Julie Salamon from Seaman, Ohio.
	Trains in the Distance by Paul Zimmer from Canton, Ohio.
For Poetry:  Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher from Columbus and
Brimfield, Ohio.
For Juvenile Literature:  The Greatest Skating Race by Louise Borden from
Cincinnati, Ohio.
About Ohio/	Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of 
Ohioans:	The Birds of America by William Souder of Stillwater,
Minnesota.
Ohioana Citations-awarded for distinguished service in specific fields or
areas of the arts and humanities.
Celeste Friedman, Newark, Ohio, for music performance.
Mark Phillips, Athens, Ohio, for music.
Sue Studebaker, Dayton, Ohio, for historic preservation of decorative arts.
Jud Yalkut, Dayton, Ohio, for visual arts.
Named Awards-endowed awards for individuals' contributions to children's
literature, poetry, editorial excellence and for a writer under 30 who has
yet to publish a book.
Ohioana Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature
Jan Wahl, Toledo, Ohio.
Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award
James Reiss, Oxford, Ohio.
Ohioana James P. Barry Award for Editorial Excellence
Bird Watcher's Digest, Bill Thompson III, editor, Marietta, Ohio.
Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
Margot Kahn, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Ohioana Awards will be presented at the Ohioana Day celebration on Oct.
22, 2005, at the Ohioana Library/State Library of Ohio building, located at
274 East First Ave., Columbus, Ohio. The luncheon and awards ceremony begins
at 11:30 a.m., preceded by the 76th annual meeting at 10 a.m. and a
reception/book fair at 11 a.m. The event is open to the public; however,
reservations are required. The cost of the luncheon is $35 per person. 
A gala fundraiser featuring a silent auction, jazz music by Arnett Howard
and hors d'oeuvres by Catering by Scott will be held the evening before,
Oct. 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the same location and is also open to the
public. The cost is $50 per person.
For more information about the Ohioana Awards or to make reservations for
the luncheon and/or gala, please contact the Ohioana Library at 274 East
First Ave., Suite 300, Columbus, OH  43201, call 614-466-3831, or email
ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us <mailto:ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us> .
The Ohioana Library Association's mission is to recognize and encourage the
creative accomplishments of Ohioans; preserve and expand a permanent
collection of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by
Ohioans and about Ohio; and disseminate information about the work of Ohio
writers, musicians and other artists to researchers, schools and the general
public.
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2005 Ohioana Award Winners
(in alphabetical order)
Louise Borden, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohioana Book Award for Juvenile Literature for The Greatest Skating Race
Louise Borden began writing children's books in 1989 and to date has penned
19 books. Her most recent, The Greatest Skating Race, chosen for this year's
Ohioana Book Award, is set in the Netherlands during World War II. In it a
brave boy must use all his wits and courage to lead two smaller children
past Nazi soldiers across the border into Belgium where they will be safe.
Borden, who lives in Cincinnati, graduated from Denison University with a
degree in history and has been the recipient of several honors and awards:
Miami University's Silver Gertie Award for her contributions to the field of
children's literature; a 2002 alumni citation from Denison University; and
the 2002 Ohioana Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature.
Anthony Doerr, Boise, Idaho
Ohioana Book Award for Fiction for About Grace
This is the third Ohioana Award that Anthony Doerr has received. In 2000, he
was chosen for Ohioana's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, given to promising
writers under 30, and in 2002, his book, The Shell Collector, garnered the
Ohioana Book Award for fiction. Doerr is also the recipient of the 2002
Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction and the 2003 New York Public
Library Young Lions Award. He earned his B.A. in history from Bowdoin
College and his M.F.A. in writing from Bowling Green State University. He
and his wife Shauna live in Boise, Idaho. About Grace is his first
full-length novel.
Diane Gilliam Fisher, Brimfield, Ohio
Ohioana Book Award for Poetry for Kettle Bottom
Diane Gilliam Fisher is a native of Columbus. She earned her bachelor's and
master's degrees in Spanish from Ohio State University, then went back later
to earn her Ph.D. in romance languages from Ohio State and an M.F.A. in
creative writing from Warren Wilson College. A recipient of an Ohio Arts
Council Individual Artist's Fellowship, Fisher has had work appear in Wind
Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review, Appalachian Journal and Shenandoah. She
is the author of two complete collections of poetry: One of Everything in
2003 and the Ohioana Award-winning Kettle Bottom in 2004.
Celeste Friedman, Newark, Ohio
Ohioana Citation for Music Performance
Celeste Friedman is the author/composer of "O" Is for Ohio, a chronicle of
the state's history in story and song. During the state's bicentennial in
2003, Celeste took her program on the road, performing at more than 80
schools, libraries, retirement villages and other community venues. Friedman
comes from a musical family; her grandfather Leo Reichert had his own
orchestra and traveled throughout the Midwest. For combining her love of
music with education and history, Friedman has been recognized by the Points
of Light Foundation, the Department of Education of the State of New York
and the Ohio State University for her contributions and accomplishments.
Margot Kahn, Seattle, Washington
Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
Margot Kahn, born in Cincinnati and raised in Cleveland, attributes her
writing skills to the efforts of a series of dedicated Ohio teachers
throughout grade school and high school. As she remembers, "Practically
every English teacher I had in those years encouraged and enhanced my love
of literature and writing." She earned her B.A. in English from Bates
College in Maine, then continued on to earn her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing
from Columbia College in New York City. The Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant is
awarded to a writer under the age of 30 who has yet to publish a book.
Margot was awarded the grant on the strength of her manuscript-in-progress,
Horses That Buck.
Jack Matthews, Athens, Ohio
Ohioana Career Award
Jack Matthews has devoted much of his life to the craft of writing and to
the love of books. He was born and raised in Columbus. After completing a
bachelor's degree in English literature and classical Greek at Ohio State
University, he stayed on to pursue a master's degree in English literature.
Upon completing his education, he undertook a career as a university
professor, first at Urbana University and then at Ohio University, where he
has taught for the past 40 years. He is the author of more than 20 novels
and collections of poetry and short stories. One critic noted of Matthews'
fiction, "Like Sinclair Lewis, Matthews captures the essence of Middle
America. He does so, however, without the didacticism of Lewis and with more
of the comic and a surer control of the dramatic." His work has earned a
number of honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council
Major Artist's Fellowship, three Ohioana Book Awards and a Distinguished
Professorship at Ohio University. 
Mark Phillips, Athens, Ohio
Ohioana Citation for Music
Mark Phillips was born in Philadelphia, PA, and earned his Bachelor of Music
degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown. He then attended Indiana
University, where he earned both Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees
in composition. His music has been featured at the Blossom Festival, the
Chautauqua Summer Music Festival, Ohio University's Bicentennial Celebration
and at the University of Memphis, where his most recent composition, Dreams
Interrupted, was performed at their Imagine 2005 Festival. He has been
awarded fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, Ohio University and the
Indiana Arts Commission, among others, and his honors include the Delius
Chamber Music Award and the ASCAP Raymond Hubbell Award to Young Composers.
James Reiss, Oxford, Ohio
Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award
James Reiss is a native New Yorker who has made a career of poetry and
teaching in the Midwest. He attended the University of Chicago and after
graduating, accepted a position with the English Department of Miami
University in Oxford, where he established the university's creative writing
program. He also was involved in Ohio's Poet in the Schools Program and
served as editor of the Miami University Press. The author of six books of
poetry, Reiss has won two Academy of American Poets first prizes, the Poetry
Center Discovery Award and fellowships from Breadloaf, the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His poem, "The Breathers"
about the death of his newborn son, has been widely anthologized.
Julie Salamon, New York, New York
Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction for Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on
Generosity and Why It Is Necessary to Give
Julie Salamon was born in Cincinnati and raised in Seaman, OH, where her
father was a family doctor. A graduate of Tufts University and New York
University Law School, she served as a reporter and film critic for the Wall
Street Journal before becoming a culture writer for the New York Times.
Salamon is the author of four books, and three of them, The Net of Dreams
(1996), Facing the Wind (2001) and Rambam's Ladder (2003) have won Ohioana
Book Awards. She currently lives in New York City.
William Souder, Stillwater, Minnesota
Ohioana Book Award for a Book About an Ohioan for Under a Wild Sky: John
James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
After his first successful book, A Plague of Frogs, William Souder was
casting about for a topic for a second book. His agent suggested naturalist
John James Audubon. "I knew Audubon's name, but not much about him," Souder
told a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a May 2005 interview.
"Then I got on Amazon and realized the most recent biography was published
in 1964. It's an eye-popping moment if you find a major historical figure
who hasn't been done in thirty years. Within an hour, I decided to do a
proposal." The result of that proposal, Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon
and the Making of The Birds of America, is this year's recipient of the
Ohioana Book Award in the Category of About an Ohioan. Souder and his family
live in Stillwater, MN, where he writes for the Washington Post and other
major newspapers.
Sue Studebaker, Dayton, Ohio
Ohioana Citation for Historic Preservation of Decorative Arts
Sue Studebaker has presented lectures, courses and symposiums on Ohio
decorative arts throughout the Midwest, most notably at Colonial
Williamsburg and at various museums in Ohio. She also served as curator for
the Ohio Sampler exhibit at the Warren County Historical Society in 1988 and
the Ohio Is My Dwelling Place exhibit at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
in Lancaster in 2003. Along with articles in Early American Homes and Ohio
Antique Review, she has written two books on needlework: Ohio Samplers:
Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1803-1850, and Ohio Is My Dwelling Place:
Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1800-1850. In 1988, she received the Award of
Achievement from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums,
and in 1996, the Montgomery County Historical Society presented her and her
husband Richard with its Heritage Award for their restoration of Quaker
Hill, their 1797-built home and Dayton-area landmark.
Bill Thompson III, Marietta, Ohio
Ohioana James P. Barry Award for Editorial Excellence
Bill Thompson III took over the editorship of Bird Watcher's Digest from his
parents, Elsa and Bill Thompson Jr., who launched the magazine from their
home in Marietta, Ohio, in 1978. Since its inception the magazine's
circulation has grown from 5,000 to more than 100,000. Along with editing
the magazine, Thompson has authored three books, Bird Watching for Dummies,
An Identification Guide to Common Backyard Birds and the Backyard Bird
Watcher's Answer Guide, along with a series of bird watching guides for the
Midwest. Thompson lives on an 80-acre farm just outside of Whipple, Ohio,
with his wife, author/artist Julie Zickefoose, who often provides artwork
for the magazine. 
Alfred Tibor, Columbus, Ohio
Ohioana Pegasus Award
Artist and sculptor Alfred Tibor once offered this explanation for his work:
"I would like to speak after I am gone." Tibor's work speaks volumes. As a
Holocaust survivor, Tibor has spent his life expressing a message of hope
and promise through his artwork. His sculptures in marble, alabaster and
bronze have been commissioned by and/or displayed at the Columbus Museum of
Art, the James Cancer Institute, the Indianapolis Jewish Center and the Yad
Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, among many others. Tibor is a recipient of the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Liturgical Art Guild and has been
inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.
Jan Wahl, Toledo, Ohio
Ohioana Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature
Jan Wahl is the author of well over 100 children's books. Born in Columbus
and raised in Toledo, Wahl earned his bachelor's degree at Cornell
University, where he was a student of Vladimir Nabokov's. A Fulbright
scholarship to the University of Copenhagen led to working with director
Carl Theodor Dreyer on the classic film Ordet (The Word) and serving as
secretary for a time to author Isak Dinesen as she wrote Last Tales. His
work has received numerous awards, among them the Avery Hopwood Award in
fiction from the University of Michigan, an American Library Association
Notable Book citation and the Parents' Choice Literary Award.
Jud Yalkut, Dayton, Ohio
Ohioana Citation for Visual Arts
Jud Yalkut of Dayton has been a groundbreaking artist in film and video. He
attended City College in New York for a year before transferring to McGill
University in Canada to study nuclear physics, but quickly shifted to
English literature and the study and writing of poetry. In his third year,
Yalkut left academe to take up travel. His interest in eastern religions and
the gift of an 8 mm camera led to his creating such experimental works as
Diffraction Film, Turn, Turn, Turn (in collaboration with Nam June Paik),
Vision Cantos and most recently Light Display: Color. Yalkut's work has been
collected by or shown at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Pompidou Center
in Paris and the Dayton Art Institute, among others. His honors include six
Ohio Arts Council Fellowships and media grants from the Ohio Humanities
Council.
Paul Zimmer, Soldier's Grove, Wisconsin
Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction for Trains in the Distance
Paul Zimmer, born in Canton, Ohio, has successfully combined lifelong
careers in both poetry and publishing. The author of 12 books of poetry-the
most recent being Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems -he also has served
as director of the University of Pittsburgh Press, the University of Georgia
Press, and the University of Iowa Press. In addition, he has authored two
books of prose, After the Fire: A Writer Finds His Place and Trains in the
Distance. Zimmer has been the recipient of numerous honors, among them two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes
and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for
Literature. He and his wife currently divide their time between a farm in
Wisconsin and a place in the south of France.
Linda R. Hengst
Executive Director
Ohioana Library Association
274 E. First Ave. - Suite 300
Columbus, OH 43201

ph: 614-466-3831
fax: 614-728-6974
email: lhengst@sloma.state.oh.us

The mission of the Ohioana Library Association is to: recognize and
encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve, and expand a
permanent archive of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by
Ohioans and about Ohio, and disseminate information about the work of Ohio
writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the
general public.

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Below you will find the press release =
announcing the recipients of the Ohioana Library's annual Ohioana =
Awards. Perhaps you would like to help us promote Ohio authors and =
Ohioana Day by doing a display of this year's Award winning books, and =
the books written by other Ohioana Award recipients such as Jack =
Matthews - Career Award winner, Jan Wahl - Children's Literature Award =
winner, and James Reiss - Krout Poetry Award winner.&nbsp; The awards =
will be present at our Ohioana Day luncheon on October 22, 2005.&nbsp; =
If you will like more information about Ohioana Day, please let me =
know.&nbsp; We are also now accepting nominations for the 2006 Ohioana =
Awards.&nbsp; I would be happy to send you a copy of any of the =
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Columbus, OH - Sept. 1, 2005. . . =
.Linda Hengst, executive director of the Ohioana Library Association, =
has announced the recipients of the 2005 Ohioana Awards. "These =
outstanding individuals represent the very best of Ohio's literary, =
musical and artistic talent," she said. "We are proud to have the =
opportunity to honor them in this way."

This year, 16 people will be =
recognized at the annual luncheon and awards ceremony. Author and =
professor Jack =
Matthews of Athens is the =
recipient of the 2005 Ohioana =
Career Award, given to an =
Ohio native for a lifetime of service to the arts and humanities; and =
artist and sculptor Alfred =
Tibor of Columbus has been =
chosen for the 2005 Pegasus =
Award, which honors a native =
or non-native Ohioan for outstanding cultural achievements. The =
recipients of the Ohioana Book Awards, Ohioana Citations and Named =
Awards are listed below (a detailed profile of each award recipient, =
listed in alphabetical order, is also attached, and digital photos are =
available upon request):

<P><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Ohioana Book</FONT></B><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman"></FONT><B> <FONT FACE=3D"Times New =
Roman">Awards-</FONT></B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">awarded for =
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, juvenile books, and books about Ohio or =
Ohioans.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">For Fiction:</FONT><B><I> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">About Grace</FONT></I></B><I></I><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> by Anthony Doerr from Parma/Cleveland, =
Ohio.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">For Nonfiction (two recipients): =
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<P><B><I><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Rambam's =
Ladder:</FONT></I><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"></FONT><I> <FONT =
COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">A Meditation on Generosity =
and Why It Is Necessary to Give</FONT></I></B><I></I><FONT =
COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> by Julie Salamon from =
Seaman, Ohio.</FONT><B></B>
<BR><B><I><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Trains in =
the Distance</FONT></I></B><I></I><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times =
New Roman"> by Paul Zimmer from Canton, Ohio.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">For =
Poetry:&nbsp;</FONT><B></B><B><I> <FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times =
New Roman">Kettle Bottom</FONT></I></B><I><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman"></FONT></I> <FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">by Diane Gilliam Fisher from Columbus and =
Brimfield, Ohio.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">For Juvenile =
Literature:&nbsp;</FONT><B></B><B><I> <FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">The Greatest Skating =
Race</FONT></I></B><I><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New =
Roman"></FONT></I> <FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">by =
Louise Borden from Cincinnati, Ohio.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">About =
Ohio/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><B></B><B><I> <FONT =
COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Under a Wild Sky: John James =
Audubon and the Making of<BR>
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Roman">Ohioans:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><B> =
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">The Birds of =
America</FONT></B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> by =
William Souder of Stillwater, Minnesota.</FONT><B></B><B><I></I></B>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Ohioana =
Citations-</FONT></B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New =
Roman">awarded for distinguished service in specific fields or areas of =
the arts and humanities.</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Celeste Friedman</FONT></B><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">, Newark, Ohio, for music performance.<BR>
</FONT><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Mark Phillips</FONT></B><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">, Athens, Ohio, for music.<BR>
</FONT><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Sue Studebaker</FONT></B><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">, Dayton, Ohio, for historic preservation of =
decorative arts.<BR>
</FONT><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Jud Yalkut</FONT></B><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">, Dayton, Ohio, for visual arts.</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Named =
Awards-</FONT></B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Times New =
Roman">endowed awards for individuals' contributions to children's =
literature, poetry, editorial excellence and for a writer under 30 who =
has yet to publish a book.</FONT></P>

Ohioana Alice =
Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature 
Jan Wahl, Toledo, Ohio.
 Ohioana Helen =
and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award 
James Reiss, Oxford, Ohio.
 Ohioana James =
P. Barry Award for Editorial Excellence 
Bird Watcher's =
Digest, Bill Thompson =
III, editor, Marietta, =
Ohio.
 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin =
Grant 
Margot Kahn, Cleveland, =
Ohio.
 The Ohioana Awards will be presented =
at the Ohioana Day celebration on Oct. 22, 2005, at the Ohioana =
Library/State Library of Ohio building, located at 274 East First Ave., =
Columbus, Ohio. The luncheon and awards ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m., =
preceded by the 76th annual meeting at 10 a.m. and a =
reception/book fair at 11 a.m. The event is open to the public; =
however, reservations are required. The cost of the luncheon is $35 per =
person.

A gala fundraiser featuring a silent =
auction, jazz music by Arnett Howard and hors d'oeuvres by Catering by =
Scott will be held the evening before, Oct. 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the =
same location and is also open to the public. The cost is $50 per =
person.

<P><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">For more information about the =
Ohioana Awards or to make reservations for the luncheon and/or gala, =
please contact the Ohioana Library at 274 East First Ave., Suite 300, =
Columbus, OH&nbsp; 43201, call 614-466-3831, or email </FONT><A =
HREF=3D"mailto:ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us"><U><FONT COLOR=3D"#003399" =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">ohioana@sloma.state.oh.us</FONT></U></A><FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">The Ohioana Library Association's =
mission is to recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of =
Ohioans; preserve and expand a permanent collection of books, sheet =
music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio; and =
disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians and =
other artists to researchers, schools and the general =
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Ohioana</FONT></B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"></FONT><B> <FONT =
FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Award Winners</FONT></B></P>

<P ALIGN=3DCENTER><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">(in alphabetical =
order)</FONT></P>

Louise Borden, Cincinnati, =
Ohio 
Ohioana Book Award for Juvenile Literature for The Greatest Skating Race
 Louise Borden began writing =
children's books in 1989 and to date has penned 19 books. Her most =
recent, The Greatest Skating =
Race, chosen for this year's =
Ohioana Book Award, is set in the Netherlands during World War II. In =
it a brave boy must use all his wits and courage to lead two smaller =
children past Nazi soldiers across the border into Belgium where they =
will be safe. Borden, who lives in Cincinnati, graduated from Denison =
University with a degree in history and has been the recipient of =
several honors and awards: Miami University's Silver Gertie Award for =
her contributions to the field of children's literature; a 2002 alumni =
citation from Denison University; and the 2002 Ohioana Alice Louise =
Wood Memorial Award for Children's Literature.

Anthony Doerr, Boise, Idaho 
Ohioana Book Award for Fiction for About Grace
 This is the third Ohioana Award that =
Anthony Doerr has received. In 2000, he was chosen for Ohioana's Walter =
Rumsey Marvin Grant, given to promising writers under 30, and in 2002, =
his book, The Shell =
Collector, garnered the =
Ohioana Book Award for fiction. Doerr is also the recipient of the 2002 =
Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Prize for Fiction and the 2003 New York =
Public Library Young Lions Award. He earned his B.A. in history from =
Bowdoin College and his M.F.A. in writing from Bowling Green State =
University. He and his wife Shauna live in Boise, Idaho. =
About Grace is his first full-length novel.

Diane Gilliam Fisher, Brimfield, =
Ohio 
Ohioana Book Award for Poetry for Kettle Bottom
 Diane Gilliam Fisher is a native of =
Columbus. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Spanish =
from Ohio State University, then went back later to earn her Ph.D. in =
romance languages from Ohio State and an M.F.A. in creative writing =
from Warren Wilson College. A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council =
Individual Artist's Fellowship, Fisher has had work appear in =
Wind Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review, Appalachian =
Journal and Shenandoah. She is the author of two complete collections of =
poetry: One of =
Everything in 2003 and the =
Ohioana Award-winning Kettle =
Bottom in 2004.

Celeste Friedman, Newark, Ohio 
Ohioana Citation for Music Performance
 Celeste Friedman is the =
author/composer of "O" Is for =
Ohio, a chronicle of the =
state's history in story and song. During the state's bicentennial in =
2003, Celeste took her program on the road, performing at more than 80 =
schools, libraries, retirement villages and other community venues. =
Friedman comes from a musical family; her grandfather Leo Reichert had =
his own orchestra and traveled throughout the Midwest. For combining =
her love of music with education and history, Friedman has been =
recognized by the Points of Light Foundation, the Department of =
Education of the State of New York and the Ohio State University for =
her contributions and accomplishments.

Margot Kahn, Seattle, =
Washington 
Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
 Margot Kahn, born in Cincinnati and =
raised in Cleveland, attributes her writing skills to the efforts of a =
series of dedicated Ohio teachers throughout grade school and high =
school. As she remembers, "Practically every English teacher I had in =
those years encouraged and enhanced my love of literature and writing." =
She earned her B.A. in English from Bates College in Maine, then =
continued on to earn her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia =
College in New York City. The Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant is awarded to =
a writer under the age of 30 who has yet to publish a book. Margot was =
awarded the grant on the strength of her =
manuscript-in-progress, Horses =
That Buck.

Jack Matthews, Athens, Ohio 
Ohioana Career Award
 Jack Matthews has devoted much of =
his life to the craft of writing and to the love of books. He was born =
and raised in Columbus. After completing a bachelor's degree in English =
literature and classical Greek at Ohio State University, he stayed on =
to pursue a master's degree in English literature. Upon completing his =
education, he undertook a career as a university professor, first at =
Urbana University and then at Ohio University, where he has taught for =
the past 40 years. He is the author of more than 20 novels and =
collections of poetry and short stories. One critic noted of Matthews' =
fiction, "Like Sinclair Lewis, Matthews captures the essence of Middle =
America. He does so, however, without the didacticism of Lewis and with =
more of the comic and a surer control of the dramatic." His work has =
earned a number of honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ohio =
Arts Council Major Artist's Fellowship, three Ohioana Book Awards and a =
Distinguished Professorship at Ohio University.

Mark Phillips, Athens, Ohio 
Ohioana Citation for Music
 Mark Phillips was born in =
Philadelphia, PA, and earned his Bachelor of Music degree from West =
Virginia University in Morgantown. He then attended Indiana University, =
where he earned both Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees in =
composition. His music has been featured at the Blossom Festival, the =
Chautauqua Summer Music Festival, Ohio University's Bicentennial =
Celebration and at the University of Memphis, where his most recent =
composition, Dreams =
Interrupted, was performed at =
their Imagine 2005 Festival. He has been awarded fellowships from the =
Ohio Arts Council, Ohio University and the Indiana Arts Commission, =
among others, and his honors include the Delius Chamber Music Award and =
the ASCAP Raymond Hubbell Award to Young Composers.

James Reiss, Oxford, Ohio 
Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award
 James Reiss is a native New Yorker =
who has made a career of poetry and teaching in the Midwest. He =
attended the University of Chicago and after graduating, accepted a =
position with the English Department of Miami University in Oxford, =
where he established the university's creative writing program. He also =
was involved in Ohio's Poet in the Schools Program and served as editor =
of the Miami University Press. The author of six books of poetry, Reiss =
has won two Academy of American Poets first prizes, the Poetry Center =
Discovery Award and fellowships from Breadloaf, the National Endowment =
for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His poem, "The Breathers" about =
the death of his newborn son, has been widely anthologized.

Julie Salamon, New York, New =
York 
Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction for Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity =
and Why It Is Necessary to Give
 Julie Salamon was born in Cincinnati =
and raised in Seaman, OH, where her father was a family doctor. A =
graduate of Tufts University and New York University Law School, she =
served as a reporter and film critic for the Wall Street Journal before becoming a culture writer for =
the New York =
Times. Salamon is the author =
of four books, and three of them, The Net of Dreams =
(1996), Facing the =
Wind (2001) and =
Rambam's Ladder (2003) have won Ohioana Book Awards. She =
currently lives in New York City.

<P><B><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">William Souder, Stillwater, =
Minnesota<BR>
Ohioana Book Award for a Book About an Ohioan for</FONT></B><B><I> =
<FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and =
the Making of The Birds of America</FONT></I></B></P>

After his first successful =
book, A Plague of =
Frogs, William Souder was =
casting about for a topic for a second book. His agent suggested =
naturalist John James Audubon. "I knew Audubon's name, but not much =
about him," Souder told a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a May 2005 interview. "Then I got on =
Amazon and realized the most recent biography was published in 1964. =
It's an eye-popping moment if you find a major historical figure who =
hasn't been done in thirty years. Within an hour, I decided to do a =
proposal." The result of that proposal, Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making =
of The Birds of =
America, is this year's recipient of the Ohioana Book =
Award in the Category of About an Ohioan. Souder and his family live in =
Stillwater, MN, where he writes for the Washington Post =
and other major newspapers.

Sue Studebaker, Dayton, Ohio 
Ohioana Citation for Historic Preservation of Decorative =
Arts
 Sue Studebaker has presented =
lectures, courses and symposiums on Ohio decorative arts throughout the =
Midwest, most notably at Colonial Williamsburg and at various museums =
in Ohio. She also served as curator for the Ohio Sampler exhibit at the Warren County Historical Society in 1988 and =
the Ohio Is My Dwelling =
Place exhibit at the =
Decorative Arts Center of Ohio in Lancaster in 2003. Along with =
articles in Early American =
Homes and Ohio Antique Review, she has written two books on =
needlework: Ohio Samplers: =
Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1803-1850, and Ohio Is My =
Dwelling Place: Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1800-1850. In 1988, she received the Award of =
Achievement from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and =
Museums, and in 1996, the Montgomery County Historical Society =
presented her and her husband Richard with its Heritage Award for their =
restoration of Quaker Hill, their 1797-built home and Dayton-area =
landmark.

Bill Thompson III, Marietta, =
Ohio 
Ohioana James P. Barry Award for Editorial Excellence
 Bill Thompson III took over the =
editorship of Bird Watcher's =
Digest from his parents, Elsa =
and Bill Thompson Jr., who launched the magazine from their home in =
Marietta, Ohio, in 1978. Since its inception the magazine's circulation =
has grown from 5,000 to more than 100,000. Along with editing the =
magazine, Thompson has authored three books, Bird Watching for Dummies, An =
Identification Guide to Common Backyard Birds and the Backyard Bird Watcher's Answer Guide, along with a series of bird watching guides =
for the Midwest. Thompson lives on an 80-acre farm just outside of =
Whipple, Ohio, with his wife, author/artist Julie Zickefoose, who often =
provides artwork for the magazine.

Alfred Tibor, Columbus, Ohio 
Ohioana Pegasus Award
 Artist and sculptor Alfred Tibor =
once offered this explanation for his work: "I would like to speak =
after I am gone." Tibor's work speaks volumes. As a Holocaust survivor, =
Tibor has spent his life expressing a message of hope and promise =
through his artwork. His sculptures in marble, alabaster and bronze =
have been commissioned by and/or displayed at the Columbus Museum of =
Art, the James Cancer Institute, the Indianapolis Jewish Center and the =
Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, among many others. Tibor is a =
recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Liturgical Art =
Guild and has been inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of =
Fame.

Jan Wahl, Toledo, Ohio 
Ohioana Alice Louise Wood Memorial Award for Children's =
Literature
 Jan Wahl is the author of well over =
100 children's books. Born in Columbus and raised in Toledo, Wahl =
earned his bachelor's degree at Cornell University, where he was a =
student of Vladimir Nabokov's. A Fulbright scholarship to the =
University of Copenhagen led to working with director Carl Theodor =
Dreyer on the classic film Ordet (The Word) and serving as secretary for a time to author Isak Dinesen as =
she wrote Last =
Tales. His work has received =
numerous awards, among them the Avery Hopwood Award in fiction from the =
University of Michigan, an American Library Association Notable Book =
citation and the Parents' Choice Literary Award.

Jud Yalkut, Dayton, Ohio 
Ohioana Citation for Visual Arts
 Jud Yalkut of Dayton has been a =
groundbreaking artist in film and video. He attended City College in =
New York for a year before transferring to McGill University in Canada =
to study nuclear physics, but quickly shifted to English literature and =
the study and writing of poetry. In his third year, Yalkut left academe =
to take up travel. His interest in eastern religions and the gift of an =
8 mm camera led to his creating such experimental works as =
Diffraction Film, Turn, Turn, Turn (in =
collaboration with Nam June Paik), Vision Cantos and most =
recently Light Display: =
Color. Yalkut's work has been =
collected by or shown at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Pompidou =
Center in Paris and the Dayton Art Institute, among others. His honors =
include six Ohio Arts Council Fellowships and media grants from the =
Ohio Humanities Council.

Paul Zimmer, Soldier's Grove, =
Wisconsin 
Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction for Trains in the Distance
 Paul Zimmer, born in Canton, Ohio, =
has successfully combined lifelong careers in both poetry and =
publishing. The author of 12 books of poetry-the most recent =
being Crossing to Sunlight: =
Selected Poems -he also has =
served as director of the University of Pittsburgh Press, the =
University of Georgia Press, and the University of Iowa Press. In =
addition, he has authored two books of prose, After the Fire: A Writer Finds His =
Place and Trains in the Distance. Zimmer has been the recipient of numerous honors, =
among them two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, =
three Pushcart Prizes and the American Academy and Institute of Arts =
and Letters Award for Literature. He and his wife currently divide =
their time between a farm in Wisconsin and a place in the south of =
France.

Linda R. Hengst
 Executive Director
 Ohioana Library =
Association
 274 E. First Ave. - Suite =
300
 Columbus, OH 43201

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"MS Shell Dlg">ph: 614-466-3831</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"MS Shell Dlg">fax: 614-728-6974</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"MS Shell Dlg">email: =
lhengst@sloma.state.oh.us</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Palatino Linotype">The mission of the Ohioana =
Library Association is to: recognize and encourage the creative =
accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve, and expand a permanent archive of =
books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and =
about Ohio, and disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, =
musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general =
public.</FONT></P>
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