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Lights! Camera! Action! Library of Virginia & Virginia Authors @ your library®
The Library of Virginia — Virginia Authors Room
The Virginia Authors Room at the Library of Virginia houses approximately
9,000 titles by Virginia authors.
Library Display & Bookmarks
Library display includes photos and biographies of Virginia authors.
Library designs a bookmark to celebrate The Library of Virginia and its Virginia Authors Room.
Library of Virginia Literary Award
Each fall, the Library of Virginia, in conjunction with the Virginia Foundation,
hosts an awards ceremony honoring Virginia Authors.
Dr. Cherry attends the 7th Annual Library of Virginia Awards Celebration
Honoring Virgnia Authors & Friends (October 16, 2004)
Dr. Cherry in Virginia Author's Room at the Library of Virginia
7th Annual Library of Virginia Literary Award Winners
| Category |
Author |
Work |
| Fiction |
Edward P. Jones |
The Known World |
| Non-Fiction |
Suzanne Lebsock* |
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial |
| Poetry |
Debra Nystrom |
Torn Sky |
| Literary Lifetime Achievement |
George Garrett |
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| Semper Virginia Society |
Dr. Francis Merrill Foster, Sr. |
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Suzanne Lebsock...more information
Education: Carleton College (bachelor's degree), University of Virginia (master's degree and doctorate); considered one of the foremost scholars in the field of American women's history
Works: The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town; Virginia Women, 1600-1945: A Share of Honour ; and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
Awards: Bancroft Prize in 1985 for The Free Women of Petersburg, MacArthur fellowship in 1992, Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians in 2004 for A Murder in Virginia
Special Note: Copies of Lebsock's The Free Women of Petersburg are available in the Virginia Room of the RBC Library. |
The state library maintains an online list
of annual Library of Virginia Literary Award winners and nominees.
Famous 20th Century Virginia Authors
| Author |
Virginia Place of Birth |
Virginia Place of Residence |
| Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) |
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Troutdale (near Marion) |
| Russell Baker (1925-) |
Morrisonville (Loudon County) |
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| David Baldacci (1960-) |
Richmond |
Northern Virginia |
| Rita Mae Brown (1944-) |
|
Afton |
| J. Bryan III (1904-1993) |
Richmond |
Richmond |
| James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) |
Richmond |
Richmond |
| Willa Cather (1873-1947) |
Back Creek Valley (near Winchester) |
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| Patricia Cornwell (1956-) |
|
Richmond |
| Virginius Dabney (1901-1995) |
Charlottesville |
Richmond |
| John Dos Passos (1896-1970) |
|
Spence's Point (Westmoreland County) |
| Rita Dove (1952-) |
|
Charlottesville |
| Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) |
Lynchburg |
Richmond |
| Nikki Giovanni (1943-) |
|
Blacksburg |
| Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) |
Richmond |
Richmond |
| Donald McCaig (1940-) |
|
Williamsville |
| Sharyn McCrumb (1948-) |
|
Shawsville |
| Katherine Paterson (1932-) |
|
Norfolk |
| Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1945-1994) |
|
Alexandria |
| Lee Smith (1944-) |
Grundy |
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| Anne Spencer (1882-1975) |
Henry County |
Lynchburg |
| William Styron (1925-) |
Portsmouth |
Newport News |
| Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) |
Hale's Ford (Franklin County) |
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Phyllis A. Whitney (1903-) |
|
Richmond |
| Tom Wolfe (1931-) |
Richmond |
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Sources for "Famous 20th Century Virginia Authors":
Contemporary Authors (Gale)
20th Century Virginia Authors: A Guide to the Literary Map
© Virginia Center for the Book 1994
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library@rbc.edu | Last Update:
July 7, 2008
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