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The World in Our Stacks
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By J. Harold
This feature links items in the news to various books, authors, and subjects that our NOVA libraries own. Take a look at the ways the world shows up in our stacks!
Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 -November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers [Wikipedia]. "Author penned the unsparing Bastard Out of Carolina . . ." - Brian Murphy, The Washington Post, November 14, 2024. The libraries have three titles by her and one title about her and others by her.
Dan Michael Morgenstern (October 24, 1929-September 7, 2024) was an American jazz historian and archivist. Born to a Jewish family in Germany, Morgenstern fled Nazi-occupied Austria with his mother and in 1947 emigrated to the United States. He first began visiting jazz clubs as a teenager and worked at The New York Times. After serving in the U.S. Army, he attended Brandeis University where he first began writing about jazz music. He went on to become a professional jazz critic and editor. Morgenstern led several jazz magazines and directed the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University from 1976 to 2012. He earned eight Grammy Awards for his album liner notes and wrote two books on jazz [Wikipedia]. The libraries own both of his works on jazz.
James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. At the time of his death, The New York Times described Scott as among the most widely read social scientists [Wikipedia]. "Scholar studied anarchism, resistance to authority as a professor at Yale" - Brian Murphy, The Washington Post, August 6, 2024. The libraries have two titles by him.
Stephen Louis Silberman (December 23, 1957-August 29, 2024) was an American writer for Wired magazine and was an editor and contributor there for more than two decades. Silberman's 2015 book Neurotribes, which discusses the autism rights and neurodiversity movements, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction [Wikipedia], [now the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction]. The libraries own two copies of Neurotribes; it is also available online.
Sigrid Undset (May 20, 1882-June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life in Norway in the Middle Ages, portrayed through the experiences of a woman from birth until death. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 [Wikipedia]. The libraries have six titles by her and two titles about her.
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