Massachusetts Center for the Book
Encyclopedia
The Massachusetts Center for the Book is the Commonwealth's affiliate of the Center for the Book
in the Library of Congress
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and in the network of state-center affiliates across the country to promote "books, reading, literacy and libraries."
, Louise Glück
, Alice Hoffman
, Stanley Kunitz
, Dennis Lehane
, Moying Li, Lois Lowry
, Megan Marshall
, Roland Merullo
, Nathaniel Philbrick
, Jayne Anne Phillips, among many others.
Center for the Book
The Center for the Book was founded in 1977 by Daniel J. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, in order to use the Library of Congress to promote literacy, libraries, and reading in general, as well as an understanding of the history and heritage of American literature...
in the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
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National and state Centers for the Book
The Massachusetts Center works with the National centerCenter for the Book
The Center for the Book was founded in 1977 by Daniel J. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, in order to use the Library of Congress to promote literacy, libraries, and reading in general, as well as an understanding of the history and heritage of American literature...
and in the network of state-center affiliates across the country to promote "books, reading, literacy and libraries."
Literary map of Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Center hosts at its website the "Literary Map of Massachusetts," a cultural tourism guide to literary heritage sites in Massachusetts. It sponsors an annual student writing program, Letters About Literature, and it recognizes important contemporary work by Massachusetts authors or about Massachusetts subjects with its annual Massachusetts Book Award.Massachusetts Book Award
Recipients of the annual MassBook award from 2000 to 2010 have included Eric CarleEric Carle
Eric Carle is a children's book author and illustrator who is most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which has been translated into over 50 languages...
, Louise Glück
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name...
, Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
, Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy...
, Moying Li, Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s...
, Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall is an American writer and scholar. She is best known as the author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, which was published in 2005. The book earned her a place as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 2006.-Biography:Marshall was born in...
, Roland Merullo
Roland Merullo
Roland Merullo is an American author who writes novels, essays and memoir. His best-known works are the novels Breakfast with Buddha, In Revere, In Those Days, A Little Love Story, Revere Beach Boulevard and the memoir Revere Beach Elegy...
, Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2000 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. He is member of the Philbrick literary family.-Life:...
, Jayne Anne Phillips, among many others.