Congratulations to Scott Russell Sanders, winner of the 2010 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in the National Category. The winners for the Regional and Emerging Author categories will be announced at the October 9, 2010 Award Dinner at Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. Read more about the finalists here.
National Winner:
Scott Russell Sanders
Regional Finalists:
Ray Roomhower, Colleen Coble, and Andrew Levy
Emerging Finalists:
Douglas Light, Micah Ling, and Greg Schwipps
For information on the 2009 Winners, click here. For 2009 Finalists, click here.
The State of Indiana boasts a number of authors worthy of recognition. The following writers with Hoosier connections are no longer with us, but their works have left an indelible mark on the literary landscape of Indiana.
- James Whitcomb Riley
- Booth Tarkington
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Etheridge Knight
- Gene Stratton-Porter
- George Ade
- Jessamyn West
- Carol Shields
- Theodore Dreiser
- Lew Wallace
- Kin Hubbard
Who will be the next great Indiana author to be added to this list? It could be one of the nearly 200 authors nominated by the public for the 2009 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award! For more information about these and other authors with Indiana ties, visit the following Web sites:
Wabash Carnegie Public Library’s list of Indiana Authors