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The 2004 Connecticut
Book Award Ceremony
The 2004 Connecticut Book
Awards, the Connecticut Center for the Book’s tribute to the state’s
literary notables and illustrious illustrators and designers, was held
Sunday, December 5, 2004 in the atrium of Hartford’s City Hall.
Master-of-Ceremonies for the 2004 CT Book Awards Jerry Franklin, CEO and
president Connecticut Public Broadcasting, with Chief Librarian Louise
Blalock, Hartford Public Library
The 2004 Connecticut Book
Award winners: (front row, from left): Pegi Deitz Shea, winner 2004
Children's Literature - Author Award; Robin Price, winner 2004 Design Award;
standing in for editors Christopher Bickford and Howard Lamar, winners of
the 2004 Non-Fiction Award are associate editors Carolyn Cooper and Sandra
Rux; (back row, from left): standing in for 2004 Fiction Award winner
Stewart O'Nan is Avon Public Librarian Alice Pentz; 2004 Poetry Award winner
Susan Howe; 2004 Biography and/or Memoir Award winner Colin McEnroe; Jerry
Franklin, master-of-ceremonies; 2004 Lifetime Achievement in Service to the
Literary Community Award winner Wally Lamb; and 2004 winner of the
Children's Literature - Illustrator Award Wendell Minor.
Peter Hare, Laura Williams and
Pegi Deitz Shea, winner of the 2004 Children's Literature - Author with
her book Tangled Threads
Wally Lamb (left) with the
2004 recipient of the Children's Literature - Illustrator Award Wendell
Minor for his work on Into the Woods.
Guest Nolan Lushington with Robin Price, winner of the 2004 Design Award
for her book, Language of Her Body.
2004
Connecticut Book Award
finalists and winners sign their books at the awards' reception Sunday,
December 5 in Hartford City Hall. They are: (from left) Gail Gauthier,
author of Saving the Planet and Stuff; Margaret Gibson, with her
collection of poetry Autumn Grasses; Steve Goddard, author of
Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers Versus the United States Government;
and, Susan Howe, with her collection of poetry The Midnight.
Kat Lyons, coordinator of
the Connecticut Center for the Book, a program of the Hartford Public
Library, with author and CT Book Awards judge Mary Ann Hoberman
Katherine
Weber signs a copy of her book, The Little Women, a finalist in
the Fiction category. With her (right) is Casey Rondini of the Hartford
Public Library.
Wally
Lamb with guest Dale Griffith, writing teacher at the York Correctional
Institution
2004 CT
Book Awards judge - poet and columnist Bessy Reyna
Alison
Meyers, director of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at Hill-Stead Museum
in Farmington, with 2004 CT Book Award judge Richard Schimmelpfeng
Featured
speaker, children's book author and illustrator John Himmelman with 2004
CT Book Awards judge Bina Williams
Peter
Hare, Laura Williams and Pegi Deitz Shea, winner of the 2004 Children's
Literature - Author with her book Tangled Threads
Susan
Aller, 2004 CT Book Award judge and children's book author
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