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Ohioana Announces the Featured Authors
for its 2010 Ohioana Book Festival
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 February's Ohio Magazine features an article on the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess.
A new production of this masterpiece will debut in four Ohio cities.
Ohioana’s own David Weaver, the author of Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy, is quoted several times in the article.
Ruby Elzy was a graduate of The Ohio State University and Gershwin personally cast in the leading role of Serena. A portion of the article,
which tells David’s story about the happenstance of “the book that might never have been written” is below. To accompany the book, David also produced a CD –
Ruby Elzy in Song.
We hope that you might take advantage of seeing this seventy-fifty anniversary tour of Porgy and Bess at one of the four theatres in Ohio.
The book might never have been written . . .
If, in 1988, then 88-year old Madge Cooper Guthery had mentioned the name of her former Ohio State University classmate,
singer Ruby Elzy, to anyone other than David Weaver, an opera singer and musical theater buff who has appeared professionally in more than two
dozen productions, it probably wouldn't have been written. Read more
Mark Your 2010 calendar – May 8th
Ohioana Book Festival: Celebrating Ohio’s Authors
Special thanks to the Harry C. Moores Foundation
and the E. F. Wildermuth Foundation
for their financial
support of this website
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Congratulations to Yellow Springs, Ohio filmmaker’s Steven Bognar and
whose film
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant was nominated for an Oscar for Documentary.
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And, to Woody Harrelson, who grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, who was nominated for best Supporting Actor for his role in The Messenger. Read more . . . .
Congratulations to Robert Olmstead the author of Coal Black Horse,
which was selected by Nantucket to kick off this year’s “One Book One Island” program. Olmstead received the 2008 Ohioana
Book Award in the category of fiction. He lives in Delaware, OH and teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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Congratulations to Cincinnati native Edmund White who’s book City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s
was selected as a finalist for the National Book Critic Award in the category of Autobiography.
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Congratulations to Jeff Smith of Columbus the author and illustrator of
Little Mouse Gets Ready, which just received the ALA’s Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book. The Geisel award is given for the most distinguished beginning reader book.
Congratulations to Pat Mora, former Cincinnati resident, who authored Gracias Thanks which
received the Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Honor Book. The book was illustrated by John Para, not an Ohio. The Belpré illustrator award is given to
Latino illustrators whose children’s books portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.
Robert F. Sibert Honor Book: The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani.
The Silbert Award is given for most distinguished informational book for children. Neither Barton nor Persiani are from Ohio,
but the Switzer brothers, who created Day-Glo, established their business in Cleveland.
There are also two newly illustrated books by
Langston Hughes that were named winner and honor books for the Coretta Scott King Illustrator award. My People illustrated by Charles R. Smith won and T
The Negro Speaks of Rivers illustrated by E.B. Lewis was the honor title. Langston Hughes graduated from Cleveland’s East High School and he started his writing career in Cleveland.
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