43rd Annual Theatre Library Association Book Awards-Registration Open

Theatre Library Association celebrates exceptional performing arts books and honors one of its outstanding members--and, for the first time, an outstanding student member--at the Lincoln Center ceremony being held on Friday, November 4! In addition to the award winners, the 2011 Freedley and Wall juries have designated one additional title in each category as a special jury prize winner. Please join us to congratulate this year's winners.

**George Freedley Memorial Award**

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro (Simon & Schuster)

The Special Jury Prize Winner is Stephen Sondheim, author of Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes (Knopf).

**Richard Wall Memorial Award**

Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster).

The Special Jury Prize Winner is Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (W.W. Norton & Company).

The awards ceremony will be highlighted by presentations from the winning authors on the research and writing of their books, followed by questions from the audience.

A special award for Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship will be presented to Susan Brady, archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

And the first Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship Award will be presented to Abigail Garnett, MLS Student, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University.

The presentation will take place promptly at 6:00 PM following the annual TLA Business Meeting at 5:30 PM in the Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (enter at Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street). A champagne reception will follow.

Visit http://www.tla-online.org/awards/bookawards.html for more information on the TLA Book Awards.