Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Virtual Gala

Celebrate the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence at an exciting virtual gala hosted by Booklist and RUSA.  Our keynote speaker is Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, author of five poetry collections, including Monument: Poems New and Selected, and the forthcoming Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir.  You will also hear acceptance speeches from Carnegie Fiction winner Valeria Luiselli, for Lost Children Archive (Alfred A. Knopf), and Carnegie Nonfiction winner Adam Higginbotham, for Midnight in Chernobyl (Simon & Schuster). This free, one-hour celebration is sponsored by NoveList.

Join us on Thursday, July 9, 2020, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Central Time.

Space is limited.