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CONCORDIA PRESENTS 15TH ANNUAL NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
Concordia welcomes authors Sarah M. Broom and David Treuer for the 15th National Book Awards. Broom, the 2019 nonfiction winner for “The Yellow House,” and Treuer, a nonfiction finalist for “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” will be featured at the Readings and Conversation, hosted by former NPR correspondent John Ydstie, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center. A book signing will follow.
Broom’s memoir, “The Yellow House,” a New York Times Best-seller, was named one of “The 10 Best Books of 2019” by the Times. The book is a moving story of Broom’s large family and their relationship to a home in a neglected area of New Orleans that is eventually wiped off the map by Hurricane Katrina. Broom’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The Oxford American, among others. She received her master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and has received several awards including fellowships at Djerssai Resident Artist Program and The MacDowell Colony.
Where previous writers have indicated American Indian history essentially ended after Wounded Knee, Treuer uncovers the reinvention and resilience of the American Indian moving from the 19th century to the present. Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. He is the author of four previous novels and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. He has a doctorate in anthropology and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Ydstie, Concordia Board of Regents member, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College in 1974 with a major in English literature and a minor in speech communications. He covered the economy, Wall Street, and the federal budget for NPR for three decades and was a regular guest host on the NPR news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation. Ydstie retired in November 2019.
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