National Book Awards Speakers
Jim Shepard is the J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and the author of six novels and three collections of stories. Dr. Shepard’s book Like You’d Understand, Anyway, eleven first-person stories that offer an eclectic overview of the human experience, was named a 2007 National Book Award finalist in fiction.
Woody Holton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. His work has been included in the Organization of American Historians’ Best American History Essays 2006, and his articles and reviews have appeared in American Historical Review and Journal of American History among others. Dr. Holton’s book Unruly Americans and the Origin of the Constitution, the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution, was named a 2007 National Book Award finalist in non-fiction.
Harold Augenbraum is a Latino literary studies scholar, who served as director of the Mercantile Library of New York for 14 years before assuming his position as executive director of the National Book Foundation.
Kerri Miller is host of Minnesota Public Radio's "Midmorning" and "Talking Volumes", the joint book club of MPR, the Star Tribune and the Loft Literary Center. She has been a radio and television news reporter since 1981.
Honors & National Book Awards Weekend
