Author: Ohio Center for the Book

Women’s History Month provides Ohioans with a chance to revisit or to learn about all the exciting and important writers, poets, playwrights, essayists, and important female literary figures that were born in Ohio or have called Ohio home. In fact, a number of Ohio women were first in their fields! And before you say, “What …

On Saturday, April 11, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, join us at our at our home base in Cleveland Public Library’s historic Main Library campus in downtown Cleveland, for a celebration of Scottish history and heritage for Tartan Day 2026! At 10:00 am, after some bagpipes and a hearty welcome, we invite children of …

This year “marks a century of national commemorations of Black history,” and, here in Ohio, also welcomes the inauguration of the Buckeye State’s year-long celebration of the life, literature, and legacy of Toni Morrison, who was born in Lorain, Ohio, and was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Events …

This year, we celebrate Ohio comics creators! Ohio has a storied (pun intended) heritage when it comes to comics, tracing back to the very beginning of the modern medium. Pivotal founders of the art hailed from Ohio, including R. F. Outcault (born in Lancaster, Ohio), Winsor McCay (who got his professional start in Cincinnati), Frederick …

Saturday, December 6, 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm Cleveland Public Library Main Library’s Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium (525 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114) Jane Austen, the person who helped shaped the modern novel, is turning 250 this year; and we’re having a celebration! The Ohio Center for the Book is proud to host this party …

On September 6, 2025, the Ohio Center for the Book will once again be participating in National Book Festival at the affiliate Centers for the Book’s Roadmap to Reading area in Hall D of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Visit our table for information about Ohio’s literary heritage, our Great Reads …

Hey kids! Do you think you’re funny? Does everyone at school laugh at your jokes? This is your chance to turn your humor into a real stand-up comedy act. In partnership with the Cleveland Comedy Festival, we’ll be hosting their Class Clown Workshop this fall. This four-week workshop is for teens ages 12-18 and will …

In keeping with our charge to promote comics as an important and unique medium of expression, we are very excited to be a part of Cleveland Public Library’s A Superhero Homecoming on Saturday, July 12. Attendees will be able to hear from and meet some of the leading creators in the medium, including a rare …

While we, of course, encourage everyone to read Rubini’s engaging biography of Virginia Hamilton chosen as this year’s Great Reads youth selection, we felt it would be helpful to post some readily available links to additional information on Virginia Hamilton’s life and works here online. Article The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature” – …