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Southern authors were well represented among the 24 winners of the 2000 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal. Southern voices, included:
Maya Angelou: author, poet, professor, and actress
Eddy Arnold: country music artist
William Davis Campbell: preacher and civil rights author
Horton Foote: author, screenwriter, playwright
Earnest Gaines: author
Barbara Kingsolver: author
Toni Morrison: author
Click here for the text of President Clinton's remarks on awarding The National Medal of Arts and The National Humanities Medal (December 20, 2000).
The Southeast Booksellers Association Book Award nominees for 2001 are:
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BelleBooks
is starting the New Year off right with an Ingram distribution deal, national chain orders, and a mass market
subrights sale to Berkley for the nostalgic southern collection, Sweet Tea
and Jesus Shoes, (trade, $14.95, ISBN 0-9673035-0-8.) What's next? Mossy
Creek, the first in a series of collective novels featuring NYT bestseller Deborah Smith,
(A Place to Call Home, Bantam Books,) Sandra Chastain (The Outlaw
Bride, Bantam Books,) Virginia Ellis (The Wedding Dress, Ballantine Books,) Debra Dixon, and Donna Ball.
Ellis has just optioned The Wedding Dress film rights to Dolly Parton and
Columbia Tri-Star Pictures. According to agents, Parton expects to star in as well as write songs for the movie version of Ellis's lyrical Civil War novel,
which is already being compared to Charles Frazier's bestseller Cold Mountain. Ballantine will publish the book in hardcover in late 2001.
Nationally award-winning author Martha Shields (Husband Found, Silhouette
Romance, Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers Choice winner) has joined BelleBooks as a new director and stockholder. "Martha Shields is a highly
credentialed graphics and communications expert," says BelleBooks President Debra Dixon. Shields is manager of marketing for the continuing education
division at the University of Memphis, (Tennessee.) She will take over marketing responsibilities from partner Deborah Smith, and Smith will assume
the editorial director's role.
Smith has just completed negotiations on another seven-figure contract with Little, Brown & Company, who have already acquired Smith's next two hardcover
novels, On Bear Mountain, (February 2001,) and The Stone Flower Garden
(Winter 2002.) In addition, Smith is writing an e-book exclusively for Little, Brown's sister company, Warner Books. The e-book,
Alice at Heart, will be published on-line this winter.
Did Lee Lose the War? The Generalship of Robert E. Lee: A Debate
The Georgia Historical Society will host a debate between authors Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan on Friday, January 19, 2001 at 8 p.m. at the Marietta Conference Center & Resort, 500 Powder Springs Street in Marietta, Georgia. Gary W. Gallagher is the author of Lee and His Generals in War and Memory and The Confederate War. Alan T. Nolan is the author of Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History. The debate is free and open to the public, followed by book signings with both authors.
