From: Dr. Barbara Goldenhersh <bgolden>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 18:36:49 -0600

I just received this and thought the list might be interested.

Barb Goldenhersh

     Theodore Taylor, author of notable young adult novels including
     The Cay (Doubleday, 1969), Timothy of the Cay (Harcourt Brace, 1993),
     The Bomb (Harcourt Brace, 1995), and Sniper (Harcourt Brace, 1989),
     has been awarded the 1997 Kerlan Award for his body of work. The
     award, which dates to 1975, is presented annually by the Kerlan
     Collection of the University of Minnesota "in recognition of singular
     attainments in the creation of children's literature." Taylor will
     receive the award at a banquet on April 22, 1997, in Minnesota. Past
     recipients include Margaret Wise Brown, Tomie dePaola, Katherine
     Paterson, Madeleine L'Engle, and Barbara Cooney.
          "I'm so pleased and honored, and feel very lucky to have won the
     1997 Kerlan Award, well aware that I'm joining a group of
     distinguished American writers of children's books," said Taylor.
          Taylor's career as an award-winning children's book author spans
     more than a quarter of a century. His novel The Cay received eleven
     literary awards and has sold more than two million copies worldwide in
     paperback alone. Taylor's The Bomb was awarded the 1996 Scott O'Dell
     Award for Historical Fiction, and The Weirdo (Harcourt Brace, 1991)
     won the 1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. His
     most recent book, published in October, is Rogue Wave and Other
     Red-Blooded Sea Stories (Harcourt Brace), a collection of eight
     gripping tales of adventure at sea. Taylor lives with his wife in
     Laguna Beach, California.
          The Kerlan Collection is one of the University of Minnesota
     Children's Literature Research Collections. Of the 65,000 books in the
     collection, 8,500 are represented by manuscripts or original
     illustrations. For more than twenty-five years Taylor has donated
     working drafts, manuscripts, and related correspondence for his novels
     to the Kerlan Collection.

"The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces 'individuals'. She never produces 'classes'".
                                                    --- Lydia Maria

Barbara Goldenhersh, PhD Assistant Professor 313 Warrensburg Drive Harris Stowe State College Belleville, IL 62223 3026 Laclede Street 618/235q13 St. Louis, MO 63103 bgolden at apci.net 314/340347
                                          goldenb at mail1.hssc.edu

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Received on Sat 28 Dec 1996 06:36:49 PM CST