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Ohio Literary and Historical Connections & Resources: Fall 2024

Ohio Literary and Historical Connections & Resources: Fall 2024

Each season in our newsletter, we highlight a few literary and historical connections with Ohio with which readers may not be familiar. September 1, 1954, & September 12, 1825: Two Ohio Librarians of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford was the 11th Librarian of Congress, beginning his tenure on September 1, 1954. Mumford had several Ohio connections. …

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2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions

2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions

This fall, the Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College and Case Western Reserve University in co-hosting a series of book discussions dedicated to the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. All sessions take place at 6:30 pm at Bookhouse Brewing in Cleveland. Your Hosts Dr. Jamie Hickner, Anisfield-Wolf Teaching Fellow in the English …

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How Thomas Boyd of Defiance, Ohio, Lost A Friend

F. Scott Fitzgerald Becomes Incensed Although he seems to have only read about it rather than having read it himself, F. Scott Fitzgerald was so incensed about a “dreary,” “unimaginative,” stereotypical and derivative novel* entitled Samuel Drummond that he excoriated both it and its Ohio author — twenty-seven-year-old Defiance native Thomas Boyd — in a …

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Online Event with Ohio Author Ghassan Zeineddine

Online Event with Ohio Author Ghassan Zeineddine

The Ohio Center for the Book is partnering with the Michigan Center for the Book to promote an online event with Ohio author and Oberlin College assistant professor of creative writing Ghassan Zeineddine, author of the short story collection Dearborn (Tin House, 2023)… Michigan Notable Book Authors Ghassan Zeineddine and RS DereenMay 30, 2024, 6:30pm …

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