Congratulations to Brenda Child on her Guggenheim fellowship! From the University of Minnesota news release: “I am truly honored to have received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Not just for myself, but because it acknowledges the significance of my field, which is … Continue reading UNP Author Brenda Child Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
American Masters: Waterman-Duke: Ambassador of Aloha explores five-time Olympic medalist Duke Kahanamoku’s life, career and struggles with prejudice. As a dark-skinned Pacific Islander, Kahanamoku broke through racial barriers with athletic accomplishments before Joe Louis, Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson; yet relatively few outside of … Continue reading Waterman to be featured as a new PBS documentary
Awards Fruit, Fiber, and Fire won the Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. The Power of Scenery is a finalist for the Marfield Prize. Reviews Dear Diaspora Review in Poetry Society of America: “This 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Wynne Brown’s Forgotten Botanist is a Top Pick for Southwest Books of the Year Erin Flanagan’s Deer Season is a finalist for the Edgar Award David C. Beyreis’ Blood in the Borderlands was a finalist for CSAW’s Outstanding Western … Continue reading News & Reviews
We’re excited to share Bison Books author B.J. Hollars‘ spring book tour schedule starting on March 22. His newest book, Go West, Young Man, recounts his effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation’s founding while also reaffirming … Continue reading Go West, Young Man: B.J. Hollars 2022 Book Tour
On February 4 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2022 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal, but both of the finalists as well! Steven Treder’s Forty Years a Giant: … Continue reading Clean Sweep for the 2022 Seymour Medal
Awards Patrick Madden’s Disparates won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! The Rhinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza is a finalist for the 2021 NBCC Awards! Neal Scheindlin’s The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook is a finalist in the 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
Fred Luebke, founding director of the Center for Great Plain Studies at UNL and founding editor of Great Plains Quarterly, passed away on November 27, 2021 at the age of 94. After earning his degree in 1968, he became a … Continue reading Remembering Fred Luebke
Awards What Isn’t Remembered Longlisted for 2022 PEN American Literary Award for the Debut Short Story Collection category! Reviews Let Me Count the Ways Review in Publishers Weekly: “With quotations from medical literature, historical treatises, and poetry threaded in, the … Continue reading News & Reviews
We’re excited to see several of our baseball books on Alex Belth’s list of “100 Best Baseball Books” ever written for Esquire magazine. Read the excerpts below to see what they said about each book. The Summer Game by Roger … Continue reading Six UNP Books Featured in Esquire’s Top 100 Baseball Books
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