INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosier author Michael Martone has been named the national winner of the 2013 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, a program of The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation that recognizes Indiana authors’ contributions to the literary landscape in Indiana and across the nation. The program is funded by The Glick Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation.
A native of Ft. Wayne, Martone is the author of such recent works as Four for a Quarter; Not Normal; Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover; Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins; and Double-wide, his collected early stories. The National Award carries a $10,000 prize, along with a $2,500 grant to a public library of Martone’s choice.
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James H. Madison, winner of the Regional Author award.
Regional Author winner is James H. Madison, the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University and author of such books as Eli Lilly: A Life; A Lynching in the Heartland; Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II; World War II: A History in Documents; and The Indiana Way: A State History. Madison will receive $7,500 as well as a $2,500 grant to his chosen public library.
In addition to National and Regional winners, Hoosier authors Mike Mullin (Ashfall), Tricia Fields (The Territory), and Kelsey Timmerman (Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories and People That Make Our Clothes) have been named as finalists for the Emerging Author Award.
The National and Regional winners will be honored, and the Emerging Author Award winner named, at the fifth annual Indiana Authors Award Dinner on Saturday, October 26 at Central Library in Indianapolis. Tickets for the event, which benefits the Library Foundation, can be obtained by visiting www.indianauthorsaward.org.
