Events sponsored by the Center for the Book

Author discussions, symposia and other events are an important part of the programming of the Center for the Book. The long-running Books & Beyond author series has attracted writers from across the country to discuss their books and the writing life, and to talk about how they have used the resources of the Library of Congress in their work. Most of these presentations are filmed for later webcasting.

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JANUARY 10 (Tuesday), 11 am, LJ 119, Jefferson Building

Announcement ceremony and program for the 2012-2013 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature. Cosponsored with the Children's Book Council.

JANUARY 18 (Wednesday), 12 noon, West Dining Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Kenneth D. Ackerman will discuss "J. Edgar Hoover & the Library of Congress" based on his book Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007).

JANUARY 26 (Thursday) 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Mark Stein will discuss and sign his new book How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines (Smithsonian Books, 2011).

FEBRUARY 7 (Tuesday), 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor will discuss and sign her new book A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). Cosponsored with the Manuscript Division.

FEBRUARY 14 (Tuesday), 12 noon, Mumford Room, Madison Building

Michael David-Fox: will discuss and sign his new book Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 (Oxford University Press, 2011). Cosponsored with the European Division.

FEBRUARY 29 (Wednesday), 12 noon, Pickford Theater, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Simine Short: Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution (University of Illinois Press, 2011). Cosponsored with the Manuscript Division.

MARCH 2 (Friday), 3:00-5:00 pm, LJ 119, Jefferson Building

Books & Beyond program. Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne Wiegand will discuss and sign his new book Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition (University of Massachusetts Press, Jan. 2012). Cosponsored by the National Women's History Museum.

APRIL 13 (Tuesday) 12 noon, Dining Room A, Madison Building

Books & Beyond program. Sam Watters will discuss his new book Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935, Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston (Acanthus in association with the Library of Congress, 2012). Cosponsored with the Prints & Photographs Division.

APRIL 25 (Wednesday) 10 am - 12 noon, LJ 119, Jefferson Building

River of Words awards ceremony for winners and finalists of the 2010-2011 environmental poetry and art contest for young people. Hosted by Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate 1995-1997.

MAY (Friday) 11 am, Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building

Jonah S. Eskin Memorial Lecture, a celebration during Children's Book Week.

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