News of the Appalachian Literary Arts

News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our web site at www.berea. edulappalachianheritagellitartsnewsldefault.html The National Book Foundation, the outfit which presents the National Book Awards, has just released their list of 100 life-changing books chosen by National Book Award winning authors. Included on the list of books from every era and around the world are three Appalachian Books: A Death in the Family by James Agee, Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe, and The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece Pancake. http://www.nationalbook.org/nbmbtcmlreadlist.html The Lannan Foundation has announced that Frank X Walker is the recipient of a $75,000 poetry award and fellowship. http://www.lannan.org/ The 2005 John B. Oakes $5,000Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism has been given by the Columbia University School of Journalism and the Natural Resources Defense Council to Erik Reece for his article, "Death of a Mountain," which appeared in Harpers. http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/oakes/winners_announced.asp Lightfrom Heaven by Jan Karon, the eighth and last novel of her series called The Mitford Years, is on all of the best-seller lists at the end of 2005. These books are set in a fictional community strongly resembling Banner Elk, North Carolina. The author promises more books about her protagonist, Episcopal priest Timothy Kavanah, but with the end of the series presumably the setting will move away from the North Carolina mountains. http://www.mitfordbooks.com/books/lightHeaven.asp Ben A. Franklin died of lung cancer on November 19, 2005, at his home in Garrett Park, Maryland. He was 78. In 1970, Franklin won the first Weatherford Award for his articles on Appalachia written in the 1960s when he was the Middle Atlantic correspondent for the New York Times. http://www.mezomorf.com/media/news-13278.html ...