Archive for October, 2003

2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded

Monday, October 20th, 2003

The Swedish Academy in Stockholm announced in October that J. M. Coetzee is the 2003 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mr. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. After receiving two B.A.’s with honors in English and Mathematics from the University of Cape Town, he earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at American and South African universities, and currently holds appointments at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Chicago. He is the first writer to have twice been awarded the distinguished Booker Prize for his novels The Life and Times of Michael K (1983), and Disgrace (1999). His other notable works include Waiting for the Barbarians (1982), The Master of Petersburg (1994), and his latest, Elizabeth Costello (2003), as well as several works of criticism. He is also the recipient of numerous international literary awards, including the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Étranger Fémina, and the Irish Times International Fiction Award.

A Bibliography of works by and about J. M. Coetzee in Lamson Library.

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Great Minds Meet at the Library

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

Display on Art Wall, near Circulation Desk

Lamson Library Posters from the American Library Association honoring the contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, Zora Neale Hurston, and John F. Kennedy, accompanied by a bibliography of works by and about them.

Books and media used in these displays are available to be checked out, as usual.

A Selected Bibliography

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • edited by Clayborne Carson Warner Books, 1998
    LOWER LEVEL E185.97 .K5 A52 1998

  • I have a dream [videorecording]

    • Maljack Productions, Inc., 1986 AV/MUSIC VIDEO E185.97 .K5 I32

  • The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • senior editor, Clayborne Carson University of California Press, 1992
    LOWER LEVEL E185.97 .K5 A2 1992 vols. 1-4

  • Strength to love

    • Martin Luther King, Jr. Harper & Row, 1963
    LOWER LEVEL BX6452 .K5

  • A testament of hope: the essential writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • edited by James Melvin Washington Harper & Row, 1986
    LOWER LEVEL E185.97.K5 A25 1986

  • The trumpet of conscience

    • Martin Luther King Harper & Row, 1968
    LOWER LEVEL E185.97 .K5 1968

  • Where do we go from here: chaos or community?

    • Martin Luther King, Jr. Harper & Row, 1967
    LOWER LEVEL E185.615 .K5 c.2

  • Why we can’t wait

    • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Harper & Row, 1964
    LOWER LEVEL E185.61 .K54

  • MLK [sound recording]: the Martin Luther King, Jr. tapes:

    • featuring speeches given by Martin Luther King, Jr. Jerden Records, 1995
    LOWER LEVEL E185.97 .K5 M54 1995

    Rachel Carson

  • Silent spring

    • Rachel Carson Houghton Mifflin, 1962
    UPPER LEVEL SB959 .C3

  • Silent spring revisted

    • edited by Gino J. Marco, Robert M. Hollingworth, and William Durham American Chemical Society, 1987
    UPPER LEVEL QH545 .P4 S55 1987

  • Always, Rachel: the letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964

    • edited by Martha Freeman Beacon Press, 1995
    UPPER LEVEL QH31 .C33 A4 1995

  • Rachel Carson’s Silent spring [videorecording]

    • Peace River Films Production distributed by PBS Video, 1993
    AV/MUSIC VIDEO QH545.P4 R32 1993 c.2

  • The edge of the sea

    • Rachel Carson Houghton Mifflin, 1955
    UPPER LEVEL QH91 .C3

  • The sea around us

    • Rachel Carson Oxford University Press, 1951
    UPPER LEVEL GC21.C3 c.2

  • The house of life: Rachel Carson at work;

    • with selections from her writings published and unpublished Paul Brooks
    Houghton Mifflin, 1972
    UPPER LEVEL QH31 .C33 B7

  • Lost woods: the discovered writing of Rachel Carson

    • edited and with an introduction by Linda Lear Beacon Press, 1998
    UPPER LEVEL QH81 .C3546 1998

  • Under the sea-wind: a naturalist’s picture of ocean life

    • Rachel Carson
    Oxford University Press, 1952
    UPPER LEVEL QH92 .C3 1952

    Cesar Chavez

  • Cesar Chavez: a triumph of spirit

    • Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia University of Oklahoma Press, 1995
    LOWER LEVEL HD6509.C48 G75 1995

  • Cesar Chavez: autobiography of La Causa

    • Jacques E. Levy
    Norton, 1975
    LOWER LEVEL HD6509.C48 L48 1975

  • The fight in the fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers movement

    • Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval; edited by Diana Hembree Harcourt Brace, 1997
    LOWER LEVEL HD6509.C48 F47 1997

  • Forty acres; Cesar Chavez and the farm workers

    • Mark Day with introduction by Cesar Chavez Praeger, 1971
    LOWER LEVEL HD1527 .C2 D37

  • Sal si puedes: Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution

    • Peter Matthiessen Random House, 1969
    LOWER LEVEL F866.2 .C5 M3

  • So shall ye reap

    • Joan London and Henry Anderson Crowell, 1970
    LOWER LEVEL HD6515.A292 C35

  • Cesar Chavez

    • Ruth Franchere
    Crowell, 1970
    CHILD LIT LOWER 920 C512f

  • Cesar Chavez: labor leader

    • Maria E. Cede Millbrook Press, 1993
    CHILD LIT LOWER 920 C512c

    Zora Neale Hurston

  • Dust tracks on a road: an autobiography

    • Zora Neale Hurston Lippincott, 1971
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515.U789 Z5 1971

  • Folklore, memoirs, and other writings

    • Zora Neale Hurston Library of America, 1995
    LOWER LEVEL GR55.H86 A3 1995

  • Zora Neale Hurston: a life in letters

    • compiled by Carla Kaplan Doubleday, 2001
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515 .U789 Z48 2001

  • Every tongue got to confess: Negro folk-tales from the Gulf states

    • Zora Neale Hurston Harper Collins Publishers, 2001
    LOWER LEVEL GR111 .A47 H83 2001

  • I love myself when I am laughing…

    • and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston reader
    edited by Alice Walker
    Feminist Press, 1979
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515.U789 L68

  • Jonah’s gourd vine: a novel

    • Zora Neale Hurston Perennial Library, 1990
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515 .U789 J66 1990

  • Mules and men

    • Zora Neale Hurston Indiana University Press, 1978
    LOWER LEVEL GR103 .H8 1978

  • Novels and stories

    • Zora Neale Hurston Library of America, 1995
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515 .U789 A6 1995

  • Spunk: the selected stories

    • Zora Neale Hurston Turtle Island Foundation, 1985
    UPPER LEVEL PS3515.U789 S68 1985

  • Tell my horse: voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica

    • Zora Neale Hurston Perennial Library, 1990
    LOWER LEVEL BL2490 .H88 1990

    John F. Kennedy

  • Profiles in courage

    • John F. Kennedy Harper, 1956
    LOWER LEVEL E176 .K4

  • Nation of immigrants

    • John F. Kennedy Harper & Row, 1964
    CHILD LIT LOWER 325.73 K35n

  • Kennedy and the promise of the sixties

    • W.J. Rorabaugh Cambridge University Press, 2002
    LOWER LEVEL E842.1 .R67 2002

  • The Kennedy obsession: the American myth of JFK

    • John Hellmann Columbia University Press, 1997
    LOWER LEVEL E842.1 .H44 1997

  • One brief shining moment: remembering Kennedy

    • William Manchester
    Little Brown, 1983
    OVERSIZE (UPPER LEVEL) E842 .M29 1983

  • The presidency of John F. Kennedy

    • James N. Giglio University Press of Kansas, 1991
    LOWER LEVEL E841 .G54 1991

  • President Kennedy: profile of power

    • Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster, 1993
    LOWER LEVEL E842 .R358 1993

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