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	ReadWest Awards for Literary Excellence
	The ReadWest Foundation, Inc, presents four annual awards: the President's Award, which recognizes a major contribution to excellence in Western literature; and three (3) Featured Author awards, which recognizes current publications that clearly represent excellence in Western literature.  Featured Author awards are given to two authors of fiction, and one author of nonfiction. The award winners are selected by the ReadWest Foundation officers and board of directors, and are announced in the spring of the award year.  Nominations can be submitted to contact@readwestfoundation.org and must be received by December 31 of the publication year.
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	2011
	2011 President's Award JORY SHERMAN Jory Sherman, who has been a full-time writer for over fifty years, began his writing career as a poet in San Francisco. Jory has had four books of poetry published, more than 1000 articles, 500 short stories, and more than 300 books from nearly all major New York publishing houses.  He is also credited for having come up with the name "ReadWest" to use as a marketing tool to promote Western literature.
	ReadWest Foundation president, Steven Anderson Law, presents Jory Sherman with the 2011 President's Award.
	2011 Featured Author Award, Fiction Stephen Harrigan Stephen Harrigan is the author of four novels. His first novel, Aransas, published by Alfred A. Knopf, was listed by the New York Times as a notable book of 1980. Jacob’s Well was published by Simon and Schuster in 1984 and cited as one of the year’s best books by The Washington Post and The Dallas Morning News. In 2000, Knopf published his novel, The Gates of the Alamo, which became a New York Times bestseller and notable book, and which received a number of awards, including the TCU Texas Book Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and the Spur Award for the Best Novel of the West. His latest novel, Remember Ben Clayton, was published by Knopf in May and praised by Booklist as a "stunning work of art" and by The Wall Street Journal as a "a poignantly human monument to our history."
	ReadWest Foundation president, Steven Anderson Law, interviews 2011 Featured Author Stephen Harrigan.
	2011 Featured Author Award, Nonfiction William Groneman III Bill Groneman sent shock waves through the Texas historical and antiquarian document communities in 1994 when he dared to suggest that an iconographic Mexican “diary” of the Texas revolution was a modern day fake. His session at the 1995 Texas State Historical Association meeting in San Antonio, where he presented a paper on the subject and on his book, Defense of a Legend, drew the largest crowd in the association’s one hundred year history. The controversy continues to this day.
	ReadWest Foundation president, Steven Anderson Law, interviews 2011 Featured Author William Groneman III.
	2011 Featured Author Award, Fiction Don Bendell Don Bendell’s current western Strongheart has 16 5-star reviews on amazon.com. He is the author of 26 books with over 2,500,000 books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame, a disabled Vietnam veteran and former Green Beret officer, and is a real cowboy with a real horse and real ranch in southern Colorado.
	ReadWest Foundation president, Steven Anderson Law, interviews 2011 Featured Author Don Bendell.

 

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