About Ohio/Ohioan: Tom Diemer, Lee Leonard and Richard G. Zimmerman, James A. Rhodes: Ohio Colossus. Diemer, Leonard and the late Zimmerman all covered Gov. James A. Rhodes and the Ohio Statehouse as political reporters. Diemer, a former reporter for The Plain Dealer, also wrote a biography of U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum. Leonard, who retired from […]
June 26, 2015—Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from around the country, were announced this evening at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco.
Representing hundreds of independent and university presses of all sizes, INDIEFAB winners were selected after months of editorial deliberation […]
Wick Chapbook poet Mary Weems, author of white, is among the winners of the 55th annual Cleveland Arts Prize in the Emerging Artist category.
Congratulations to Mary Weems, the Wick Poetry Center, and The Kent State University Press!
Read more about the Arts Prize here and here.
The Ohioana Library has announce the finalists for the 2015 Ohioana Book Awards. Established in 1942, the awards honor Ohio authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Juvenile Literature. The category, About Ohio/Ohioan, may also include books by non-Ohio authors.
This year’s finalists include winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, a former U.S. Children’s Poet […]
Author, filmmaker, engineer, and historian Jack Gieck passed away on June 4, 2015.
Mr. Gieck was an engineer and past-president of the Canal Society of Ohio and founder of Cinemark, Inc., a producer of technical and historical films including the award-winning video series Ohio’s Canal Era. He is the author of the popular A Photo Album of Ohio’s […]
Wearable Prints, 1760-1860, by Susan W. Greene, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Millia Davenport Publication Award sponsored by the Costume Society of America.
This year the Davenport Award Committee had a particularly strong field of nine short-listed books representing many aspects of dress scholarship. In commending Wearable Prints, the jurors noted that it was a […]
KSU Press author Jay Knarr is featured in two recent stories on NPR and in The Christian Science Monitor.
As Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica likes to say, his personal story seems like the stuff of fiction. He was a leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned for more than a decade. He’s known for driving a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, […]
Author Dr. Virginia O. Benson was honored March 13, 2015, with the prestigious Robert C. Gaede Lifetime Achievement Award in Historic Preservation.
Read the rest of the story here.
MADISON-Joan L. Severa, age 89, passed away on March 5, 2015, at Oakwood West in Madison, Wisconsin, with family and friends by her side.
She was born on August 7, 1925, in Spring Green, to Gertrude and Johnny Baker. Joan was a master gardener and after retirement she authored How to Create a Perennial Garden. She volunteered […]
Edward J. Blum has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2014. His study, “‘The First Secessionist Was Satan’: Secession and the Religious Politics of Evil in Civil War America,” Civil War History (September 2014), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns […]
