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| Updates from the Associates of the Boston Public Library |
This year's honorees or "Literary Lights" are: activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, investigative journalist Katherine Boo, philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, illustrator Wendell Minor, children's author Florence Minor, and novelist Amor Towles. The awards will be presented by their esteemed colleagues: Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Jill Ker Conway, Alan Lightman, Mary Higgins Clark, Claire Messud and David Gergen. The presentation of these distinguished authors' awards will be followed by a keynote address by renowned historian Niall Ferguson, author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die.
We hope you can join us! Tickets are selling out quickly. To purchase a ticket, please visit:
CHILDREN'S WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
We are currently accepting applications for our twelfth
Children's Writer-in-Residence. The program was created to provide an emerging children's author with the financial support and quiet space needed to complete one literary work. Eligible projects include fiction, nonfiction, a script, or poetry intended for children or young adults. The fellowship provides a $20,000 stipend and an office at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square from September 2015 through May 2016. Applications are due April 30th.
Our current author, Natalie Coward Anderson,
was recently profiled in a Boston Globe article, "BPL Writing Fellow Launches a New Career." She is writing a novel titled Rules for Thieves.
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT THE ASSOCIATES
Boston Globe subscribers, please consider nominating the Associates for the Globe's GRANT program (which stands for Globe Readers And Non-profits Together). This will help us to earn free advertising space and further promote our mission to conserve the BPL's Special Collections. To nominate the "Associates of the Boston Public Library," please return your silver voucher or complete a form online by April 30th.
Amazon shoppers, did you know that Amazon Smile will make a .5% donation to the Associates of the Boston Public Library if you shop using this link?
Thank you for your ongoing support of the Associates! Thanks to donors like you, we've been able to conserve, catalog and digitize thousands of the BPL's treasures. But there is still much more to do.
Sincerely,
Louisa Stephens
Executive Director
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