New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life by Floyd Skloot. At forty one, writer Floyd Skloot, was struck with a “brain-ravaging virus” and this was the topic of his first three memoirs. In Wink, however, he tries to uncover where the “magic comes from”, and how “circumstance and nature” came together to make him the writer that he is. This week Linking in Lincoln will do our part to help uncover that as well.  Just what makes up Floyd Skloot? Join me, and we can find … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 30,2008

 Well readers, it has been quite a week. The University of Nebraska Press author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature. His titles published with the University of Nebraska Press include Onitsha and The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts. Also this week in history: October 13, 1969: World Series. Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski  is the first person to end a world series with a home run.     The World Series always ends with a bang. No one knows this better than Shoeless Joe Jackson, when he defended his innocence against allegations that he … Continue reading This Week in History: October 13-17, 2008

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation by Samuel L. Broadnax. After a love of flying and years spent as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base, Samuel Broadnax began to research the experiences of other black pilots and “pioneers” of aviation. This book is a culmination of those tales, from Charles Wesley Peters who flew his own plane in  1911, to the 1945 Freeman Field mutiny against segregationist policies. This week Linking in Lincoln will pay tribute to the struggles and fights of these men with … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 9, 2008

Francis French, co-author of two titles in UNP’s acclaimed Outward Odyssey series, received San Diego’s “Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Education” award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in a special ceremony on May 22, 2008. According to the press release issued by the San Diego Air & Space Museum, French was honored for his work heading the Museum’s education efforts to interest and engage a new generation of audiences in science, technology and engineering, as well as his prior work in science education at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Sally Ride Science, and his popular science books … Continue reading Author Francis French Honored for Contribution to Aerospace Education

ONE BOOK, ONE NEBRASKA, ONE TUESDAY TRIVIA! Restoring the Burnt Child, by William Kloefkorn is the fourth installment in his highly regarded  memoir, that when completed, will cover the four elements of Water, Fire, Earth, and Air (and no he has no affiliation with Captain Planet). Winner of the One Book, One Nebraska award, Kloefkorn is no stranger to praise from the Great Plains literati. In this installment of Tuesday Trivia we will be taking a look at him and other  former winners of One Book, One Nebraska to see if you, our readers, have  been paying attention to these … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: May 19, 2008

A.J.B. Johnston’s Endgame 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade has been short-listed for the Atlantic Book Awards’ 2008 Dartmouth Award for Non-Fiction. Click here for a link to the Atlantic Book Award Web page. Congratulations to the author on this honor! Continue reading Endgame 1758 Short-Listed for Dartmouth Book Award

We are pleased to announce that UNP author Norman L. Macht is the winner of the 2008 Larry Ritter Award, granted by the Society for American Baseball Research‘s Deadball Era Committee, for his book, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. Our congratulations go out to Mr. Macht for this outstanding accomplishment! Continue reading UNP Author Receives Ritter Award

Robin Hemley, author of Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), was announced as a recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in a press release distributed by the Guggenheim Foundation on April 3rd. The fellowship was awarded to 190 artists, scientists, and scholars from a pool of more than 2,600 applicants. To view the Guggenheim Foundation press release and for a link to the full list of this year’s recipients, click here. Congratulations to Robin on this high honor! Continue reading UNP Author Announced as Guggenheim Fellow

We’re proud to announce that Barnes & Noble has included two forthcoming UNP titles as Summer 2008 Discover Great New Writers Selections. Featured in promotions from May-July 2008 will be: The Enders Hotel: A MemoirBy Brandon R. Schrand “Gorgeously written and generous in its telling, Schrand’s memoir takes us deep into the heart of a boomtown gone bust and a family surviving on little more than stubbornness and a desire to do the next right thing. The Enders Hotel is a heartbroken love song to a time gone by, a place lost, and a people whose longings ring true long … Continue reading Barnes & Noble Highlights Two UNP Titles in Summer 2008 Discover Great New Writers Selections

The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce that Ilana M. Blumberg is runner-up for the Jewish Book Council’s 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies for Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books. Congratulations to Professor Blumberg on this impressive achievement! Read more about Houses of Study on the book’s page on the University of Nebraska Press Web site. Continue reading Houses of Study Named 2007 National Jewish Book Award Runner-Up