John E. Dolibois, author of Pattern of Circles, former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, and last American survivor of a team that interrogated top-ranking Nazis for the Nuremberg Trials, died Friday, May 2, at his home in Cincinnati. He was 95.
Click here to read his obituary in The Washington Post.
The April 15, 2014, issue of Library Journal reviewed 22 recent books on World War I. Two Kent State University Press titles received praise: Steven Florczyk’s Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War and War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings edited by Steven Paul, Gail Sinclair and Steven Trout.
Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 by Hampton Newsome was one of three finalists for the 2014 Richard Harwell Book Award.
A special exhibition at the Concord Museum
Concord, Massachusetts
April 18 through September 21, 2014
Based on the eponymous Maureen Taylor books, The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation, brings together 30 photographic portraits of people who lived through the Revolution and survived into the age of photography. Gathered by one of the nation’s foremost historical photo detectives, Maureen Taylor, […]
Kate Northrop Wins the $25,000 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize
Kate Northrop, associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize, an annual award given to a young writer of poetry or prose. The award comes with a $25,000 cash prize.
Northrop has been on the faculty at the University […]
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March 4, 2014
Poet Laureate Selects 2014 Witter Bynner Fellows, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Jake Adam York
The 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Natasha Trethewey, has selected […]
Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
Kent State University Press author Brennan O’Donnell, a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature and President of Manhattan College, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award.
The award is unique among literary and academic prizes in recognizing scholars who have made a […]
Anton “Tony” Bilek
Tony Bilek, 94, a longtime resident of Rantoul, Illinois, passed away on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at his home in Rantoul, Illinois.
Tony was born April 11, 1919, in Chicago, a son of Anton and Annastazie Bilek. He married Millie Podolak in January 1946, in Chicago. She preceded him in death in July 2000.
Mr. […]
The 2013 Kent State University Press catalog has won the 2nd place Award of Excellence in the Great Lakes Graphics Association’s Graphic Excellence Competition. The catalog was designed by KSU Press staff member Darryl Crosby and produced by Ripon Printers of Wisconsin. About the award, Darryl said,
“It’s always good to be recognized, though the production of our yearly catalog […]
Evergreen Medals for Health and Wellness
Bronze: The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing, by Cortney Davis (Kent State University Press)
“I learned that nursing is an odd, mysterious, humbling, addicting, and often transcendent profession… The stories patients reveal – with their complex emotional and physical histories and the multilayering of their lives – are as entrancing […]
