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Click here to downlaod the submission instructions for the 2008 Haiku Competition. Haiku_2008
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CHAIR:
Marjory Bassett
CO-CHAIR: Nancy Dougherty, Johanna Garfield, Robert Kornfeld,
Cherry Provost
EST: 1967 |
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Our
mission is to bring literary works of merit to the membership
and general public through readings and discussions with authors;
to present panel-discussions on literary subjects of interest
(biography, memoir, etc.); to help aspiring writers through
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| The
Medal of Honor for Literature |
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Medal of Honor for Literature is given for a body of work
of literary excellence. We honor the achievement of the author
chosen annually by the Literary Committee Members. The recipient
can be a novelist, poet, playwright, memoirist, or biographer.
PAST
RECIPIENTS:
2008 Don DeLillo
2007 Chinua Achebe
2006 P. D. James
2005 Alice Munro
2004 Shirley Hazard
2003 Tom Stoppard
2002 Edna O'Brien
2001 Tom Woolfe
2000 Nadine Gordimer
1999 Toni Morrison
1998 Grace Paley
1997 Margaret Atwood
1996 E. L. Doctorow
1995 William Styron
1994 Richard Wilbur
1993 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1992 Arthur Miller
1991 Philp Roth
1990 Iris Murdoch
1989 James Merrill
1988 Carlos Fuentes
1987 Robertson Davies
1986 Marguerite Yourcenar
1985 Joseph Campbell
1984 John Updike
1983 James Laughlin
1982 Barbara W. Tuchman
1981 Leon Edel
1980 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Allen Ginsberg
1978 Saul Bellow
1976 Norman Mailer
1975 Tennessee Williams
1974 Eudora Welty
1973 Anthony Burgess
1972 Norman Cousins
1971 Ada Louise Huxtable
1970 S. J. Perelman
1969 W. H. Auden
1968 Louis Auchincloss |
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| The
Carole Klein Memorial Lecture |
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The
Committee honors the memory of our much loved former co-chair,
the brilliant author Carole Klein, by presenting an
annual lecture in her honor. Carole died tragically when she
was struck by a car in July of 2001. The first speaker, Carol's
dear friend, biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook (Eleanor
Roosevelt), was be our first speaker. Her topic was, "Carole
Klein and Eleanor Roosevelt: Women, Friendship and Power."
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