Literary Masters is
a National Book Foundation program that promotes and supports
public programming across the country to highlight and celebrate
America's foremost authors past and present. The program initiated
in 2008 with Philip
Roth's 75th birthday that took place at Columbia University.
In 2010, the Foundation will present Rumors
of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated…: The Life and Work
of Mark Twain, on the centennial of Twain's death.
In celebration of the 60th National Book Awards, the
National Book Foundation co-sponsored a special evening,
"Nelson Algren Live!," which was recorded at the Steppenwolf
Theater’s April 6th tribute to Nelson Algren with Willem
Dafoe, Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo, and Russell Banks.
Produced by M30A Films in Collaboration with Seven Stories
Press.
www.m30afilms.com
www.sevenstories.com
In
celebration of the 60th National Book Awards, the National
Book Foundation will be offering libraries a free DVD
of Nelson Algren Live!, a video presentation
of Steppenwolf Theater’s April 6th tribute to Nelson
Algren with Willem Dafoe, Don DeLillo, and Russell Banks.
The presentation was part of
the Foundation's American Literary Masters, and done in
partnership with Seven Stories Press to celebrate the
centennial of the birth of Nelson Algren, the first National
Book Award Winner in Fiction for The Man With the
Golden Arm.
As part of the celebration and
in conjunction with Seven Stories Press, the Foundation
will send an eblast offering a free copy of Algren’s
National Book Award-winning novel The Man With the Golden
Arm, to the first 100 librarians that respond.
Continue to watch your emails
from the National Book Foundation that states "exclusively
for librarians" with offers of Nelson Algren
Live! and The Man With the Golden Arm.
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