Violet Crown Winners
Fri., Nov. 29, 1996
O. Henry -- were presented at a ceremony at Scholz Garten on Nov. 16. Top Lone Star honorees and recipients of $1,000 cash prizes and custom-designed glass sculptures were:
* MARION WINIK, for her personal memoir First Comes Love, which was just released in paperback. Winik is a regular Austin Chronicle writer and a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
* ROB THOMAS, for his first novel, Rats Saw God. Thomas is a high school journalism teacher and advisor to the UT student magazine, UTmost; he also has worked for the Channel One educational television show.
* AUSTIN BAY and JAMES F. DUNNIGAN, for
A Quick and Dirty Guide to War:
Third Edition. Bay is the international affairs columnist for the San
Antonio Express News, and Dunnigan is the author of 10 military books.
Special citations went to LESLIE H. EDGERTON for Death of Tarpons,
FRANCES NAIL for Crow in the House, Wolf at the Door, DAVE OLIPHANT
for Texan Jazz, EDDIE STIMPSON, JR., for
My Remembers: A Black
Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression, SUSAN WADE for Walking
Rain, and SCOTT WIGGERMAN for Vegetable Logic.
The ceremony featured speakers ROBERT JAMES WALLER (Bridges of
Madison County) and KINKY FRIEDMAN (The Love Song of
J. Edgar
Hoover).
