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AUTHOR SHIRLEY GORDON JACKSON RETURNS TO HOMETOWN FOR UNVEILING OF MARKER HONORING CHARLES GORDONE

On April 18, 2009, Shirley Gordon Jackson (right), author of A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone, took part in the unveiling of a marker in her family's hometown of Elkhart, Indiana, honoring her brother, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.Read more >>

March 11, 2009 2009 Walt McDonald winner Elizabeth Haukaas read with Michael Dennis Browne at The Loft at the Open Book, Minneapolis

ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards present the Gold Award for Mystery to Quarry, by Susan Cummins Miller; the Silver Award for Essays to Twilight Innings, by Robert A. Fink; and the Silver Award for Juvenile Fiction to Our House on Hueco, by Carlos Nicolás Flores.

BUCK RAMSEY'S GRASS WINS 2006 WILL ROGERS MEDALLION

The Academy of Western Artists has awarded Buck Ramsey's Grass a 2006 Will Rogers Medallion. [more]

Catch poet Christine Rhein (Wild Flight) on the Joe Milford Poetry Show Sat., June 20, 5 to 6:30 PM EST

Melodie Cuate, author of the Mr. Barrington's Mysterious Trunk Series, including Journey to the Alamo and Journey to San Jacinto, is awarded the 2006-07 Linden Heck Howell Outstanding Teaching of Texas History Award by Humanities Texas.

Bill Neal's Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier is named Book of the Year 2007 by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History.

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO WINS 2005 POETS' PRIZE

Keeping My Name by Catherine Tufariello has won the prestigious Poets' Prize. [more]

THREE TTUP BOOKS WIN SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARDS

Cacti of the Trans Pecos and Adjacent Areas, Child of Many Rivers, and Old Las Vegas were all honored. [more]

ROBERT LEE MARIL HELPS CRAFT BORDER LEGISLATION

Research on the U.S. Border Patrol by Robert Lee Maril has helped to craft a bill that would increase surveillance equipment and staffing along the border with Mexico. [more]

TTUP BOOK NAMED L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST

Catherine Tufariello's book Keeping My Name has been selected as one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of poetry. [more]

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO TO APPEAR AT TTU IN MARCH

Catherine Tufariello will read from her book Keeping My Name on March 6, 2006, at 7:30 p.m., in the English Department Auditorium. [more]

AWARD-WINNING BOOKS FROM TTUP

See a list of the awards our books have won. [more]