Hoosier author Michael Shelden has been selected as the winner of the $10,000 National Author prize given by the 2014 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, a program of The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation funded by The Glick Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation. The annual award program recognizes Indiana authors’ contributions to the literary landscape in Indiana and across the nation.
Shelden, a professor at Indiana State University, is the author of five biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Orwell: The Authorized Biography; Man in White, a study of Mark Twain’s final years; and his most recent book, Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill.
Norbert Krapf has been named the Regional Author winner, earning him a $7,500 prize. Krapf is a former Indiana Poet Laureate and author of 26 books, 11 of which are full-length poetry collections that include Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet’s Journal of Healing; American Dreams; and Songs in Sepia and Black and White.
The National and Regional winners, along with finalists in the Emerging Author category, will be honored at the sixth-annual Indiana Authors Award Dinner Oct. 25, 2014, at Central Library in Indianapolis. Emerging Author finalists are Jessica Brockmole, Clifford Garstang and Kelsey Timmerman.
For additional information about the Indiana Authors Award and festivities, visit www.indianaauthorsaward.org.
