George Steinbrenner’s Pipe Dream: The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers by Bill Livingston
The Boss’s overbearing, well, bossiness, did not begin with his stewardship of the New York Yankees. As a young man of 30, he ran the Cleveland Pipers for the 1961-62, and only, season of the American Basketball League. Even then, he was full of contradictions. […]

Doris E. (O’Donnell) Beaufait died Sunday, September 27, 2015, age 94. In 2006 Doris authored Front Page Girl, published by The Kent State University Press.
Doris grew up in Cleveland. From the time she was a young girl, she knew that she wanted to be a journalist. In 1944 she joined the Cleveland News where she met […]

Announcing the 2015 Living Now Book Awards ResultsRecognizing the Year’s Best Books for Better Living
Jenkins Group is proud to announce the results of the Seventh Annual Living Now Book Awards. Launched in 2008, the awards are designed to honor the year’s best books that help readers attain healthier, more fulfilling, and productive lives. Congratulations to […]

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 […]