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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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A finalist for the National Book Award with her 1995 novel.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The book was also nominated for a National Book Development Council Award in 1998.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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National Book Award winner and international bestseller, available on audio cassette.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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National Book Award winner Lucile Clifton, United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Spring 2003 McEver Visiting Chair in Writing Stephen Dobyns, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove will read from their works.
Among these writers was novelist Kent Haruf, author of the National Book Award Finalist Plainsong as well as two previous novels, The Tie that Binds and Where You Once Belonged.
More recently, his books have gained him the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award, testifying to the broad appeal of his wonderfully eccentric and generous poetry.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Lay was the winner of the National Council of Teachers of English award for best book in scientific and technical communication.
Eliot Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and has received numerous fellowships.
The new novel by National Book Award finalist Richard Dooling is just out from HarperCollins.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Major awards included are the National Book Award, Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize, Caldecott and Newbery Medals, and many more.
This National Book Award Winner follows Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, who walks home to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Ada, the women he loves.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Kimmel is a finalist for the 2002 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Picture Book Category.
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