Before the National Book Foundation, which was founded in
1989, the National
Book Awards organization existed in a variety of iterations,
not all of which kept
copious records. The Foundation would like to fill in the
archival blanks, so we're
asking for your help. If you or an organization you work for
has memorabilia from
past National Book Award events, please contact Meredith Andrews
at
mandrews@nationalbook.org.
Maybe your great-uncle was a finalist, or a
photographer shooting the event. Maybe you inherited a National
Book Award
statue, or have a program from the '70s or early '80s. We're
hoping to use digital
images and copies to give a fuller history of the awards and
its honorees.
