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October 2007
Renovating for the Future! Virginia Authors @ your library^®

10th ANNUAL LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA AWARDS CELEBRATION

Dr. Virginia Cherry attended the 10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Celebration.  As a Page Turner subscriber, she supports this annual event honoring Virginia’s authors. 

 

Dr. Virginia Cherry

 

Library of Virginia

 

The host for the evening was Lee Smith who has published eleven novels and has received many writing awards, including O. Henry Awards in 1978 and 1980.

 

Lee Smith

 

10th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Award Winners (2007) People’s Choice Fiction Award: Adriana Trigiani for Home to Big Stone Gap People’s Choice Nonfiction Award: William M. Kelson for Jamestown The Buried Truth Fiction Award: Deborah Eisenberg for Twilight of the Superheroes Nonfiction Award: Scott Reynold Nelson for Steel Drivin’ Man-John Henry Poetry Award: Elizabeth Hadaway for Fire Baton Literary Lifetime Achievement: Tom Wolfe, presented by Governor Tim Kaine Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize: Claudia Emerson Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature: Tad Hills

Titles Donated to the RBC Library by Dr. Virginia Cherry Home to Big Stone Gap : a novel / Adriana Trigiani. On Agate Hill : a novel / Lee Smith.

Dr. Richard Love, Associate Professor of History at Richard Bland College, served as a 2007 Literary Awards Judge and attended the event with his wife Ellen.  Dr. Love donated sixteen nominated books to the RBC Library.

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Love

Titles Donated to the RBC Library by Dr. Richard Love Alexandria, Virginia / Pamela J. Cressey and Margaret J. Anderson. Arlington National Cemetery / George W. Dodge ; with a foreword by Kim B. Holien. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia / Christopher E. Hendricks. Black Cadet in a White Bastion : Charles Young at West Point / Brian G. Shellum ; foreword by Vincent K. Brooks. Boys of '67 : From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men / Charles Jones ; foreword by Anthony C. Zinni. Civil War Petersburg : Confederate City in the Crucible of War / A. Wilson Greene. The Games Presidents Play : Sports and the Presidency / John Sayle Watterson. Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses : Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century / Ryan K. Smith. Sea Change at Annapolis : the United States Naval Academy, 1949-2000 / H. Michael Gelfand ; foreword by John McCain. Seaworthy : Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting / T.R. Pearson. They Were Heard From : VMI Alumni in the Civil War / David Mann. Thomas Jefferson : Reputation and Legacy / Francis D. Cogliano. Topsail Island : Mayberry by the Sea / Ray McAllister. The Truth is our Weapon : The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles / Chris Tudda. Virginia in the Vanguard : Political Leadership in the 400-Year-Old Cradle of American Democracy, 1981-2006 / Frank B. Atkinson.

Library of Virginia Literary Awards Poster

Dr. Cherry with poster given to all who attended the event.

More information about the event is available online at the Library of Virginia web site!

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