Book News: Authors to visit here; librarians pick Newbery winners
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Readings
Chatham College resumes its reading series tonight with environmentalist Marcia Bonita, author of several guidebooks to Pennsylvania, including two "Outward Bound Journeys" titles.
Sponsored by the Rachel Carson Institute and Chatham's graduate writing program, Bonita's talk is at 7:30 p.m. in the Beckwith Lecture Hall.
A trio of authors are on the program at Chatham at 4 p.m. Friday: Lisa Balkovec Gigurere ("Setting It Straight"), Michael Waguespack ("My First Deer Hunt") and Jodi Vollero ("Hidden Friendship").
The program is in Andrew Mellon Hall.
Tarentum native Paola Corso, fiction writer and poet, appears at 8 p.m. Feb. 5 in Mellon Hall.
She's the author of the short-story collection "Giovanna's 86 Circles" and the poetry collection "Death by Renaissance." Corso has won a Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award.
Penn State University writing instructor William Cobb travels to the Chatham campus at 8 p.m. March 14 for a Mellon Hall reading.
His latest novel is "Goodnight, Texas."
"Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands" is the autobiography of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She'll discuss her cross-cultural work March 27. Check Chatham's Web site -- www.chatham.edu -- in a few weeks for time and place.
All readings are free to the public.
Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont brings in half an author Saturday for its Coffee and Crime Series at 514 Allegheny River Blvd.
She's Caroline Todd, co-creator of the Inspector Ian Rutledge series with her son. They write under the nom de plume Charles Todd.
"A False Mirror" is the ninth installment of the crime saga set in 1920s England.
The program begins at 10 a.m. with a continental breakfast for $5. Call 412-828-4877 for reservations.
Carnegie Mellon's Adamson Visiting Writers Series invites CMU graduate Sue Stauffacher Jan. 31 to discuss her popular books for children, "Donut Head" and "Harry Sue."
She speaks at 8 p.m. in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall. It's free. For details, call 412-268-6094.
Winners, finalists
America's librarians selected the year's best books for children at their annual gathering in Seattle yesterday.
Winning the Newbery Medal for best literature was "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron.
The Caldecott for best illustrated work went to David Wiesner for his work in "Flotsam."
The Coretta Scott King honors were taken by "Copper Sun" by Sharon Draper and "Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom," illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
The creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon has announced the winners of its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Awards. They are:
High school: Emily Nagin, "Giving Up the Ghost," Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts; prose, David Peitzman, "Wrong Place, Wrong Time," Winchester Thurston Academy.
CMU students: Poetry, Zachary Harris, "Joy and Pain"; prose, Michael Szczerban, "Distinguishing the Undistinguishable."
First Published January 23, 2007 12:00 am
