The Theatre Library Association Announces 2012 Book Award Winners and Finalists

By: Kelsey Denette Aug. 28, 2012

The Theatre Library Association has announced the winners of the 2012 Book Awards.

George Freedley Memorial Award

Jonathan Kalb

Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theatre

(University of Michigan Press, 2011)

Special Jury Prize Winner

Steven Serafin, Editor

BAM: The Complete Works

(Brooklyn Academy Of Music in association with The Quantuck Lane Press, 2011)

Richard Wall Memorial Award

Christopher Sieving

Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation

(Wesleyan University Press, 2011)

Special Jury Prize Winner

Susan Orlean

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

(Simon & Schuster, 2011)

Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship

Nena Couch

Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship

Lisbeth Wells-Pratt

The Gala/Awards Ceremony 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.

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