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Iowa Author Awards 2007

2007 Award Recipients
McPherson
James A. McPherson
- Author of Hue and Cry, Elbow Room, and most recently, Crabcakes. A professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop, McPherson was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Elbow Room in 1978.
Carey Michael Carey
- Known as the “farmer poet”, Carey is the author of five books of poetry, a teaching manual, and two historical plays.
- First recipient of our Iowa Poet Award
Shors John Shors
- Author of Beneath a Marble Sky.  The movie rights have already been picked up and Shors is currently completing his second novel. 

- First recipient of our Emerging
Author Award
Kruideniers

Elizabeth and David Kruidenier  - 2007 Friends of Literacy
-  Honoring an amazing history of commitment to promoting literacy and expanding opportunities in Des Moines 

 

Author and Friend of Literacy Sponsors

Barbara & Michael
Gartner
Des Moines Register
Wells Fargo
Pioneer

 

Masterpiece Sponsors
Townsend Vision Inc
Farm Bureau
Mary & Dan Kelly
Hubbell Realty

 

Bestseller Sponsors
Rich Eychaner Angie Chatman
Doug Dorner & Carole Villeneuve Friends of the Franklin
Avenue Library
Allied Nationwide Shirley Patterson
Prairie Meadows Federal Home Loan Bank
Meredith Corporation Weitz Company
Jim Autry & Sally Pederson Friends of the East Side Library
Library Board of Trustees Dr. Craig & Kim Shadur
Knapp Properties Joan Middleton
Davis, Brown, Koehn,
Shors & Roberts, P.C.		 Judy McCoy Davis & Cyril & John Mandelbaum
Faegre & Benson Substance Architecture
Janis and John Ruan Jan Campbell

 

2007 Iowa Author Awards Planning Committee
Selection Committee
Barbara Gartner - Co-Chair Michael Gartner
Angie Chatman – Co-Chair James Autry
Paris Boehm Joan Bunke
Gayle Butler Carolyn Washburn
Tom Drake Molly Olinger Topf
Melinda Elwanger  
Jan Campbell  
Kristin Owens  
Shirley Patterson  
Janis Ruan  
Deb Tharnish  
Molly Olinger Topf  
Teri Wood  

 

  
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