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Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival through a series of events in September and October that honor author Ralph Ellison, an Oklahoma native, and the 50th anniversary of his Invisible Man, one the most important works in American literature. National Book Festival promotional materials will be distributed beginning in September with the launch (Sept. 12) of the statewide community reading project "One Book-One State: Invisible Man." It will continue with publicity at the statewide conference of school librarians (Sept. 12-13); a panel discussion on Sept. 28 in Tulsa at the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers Celebration of Books that features Professor John Callahan of Lewis and Clark University, who also spoke about Ellison at the Library of Congress; Callahan's subsequent visits to Oklahoma City high schools; and the Oct. 2 unveiling of the state's newest Literary Landmark: the Metropolitan Library System's Ralph Ellison Library in Oklahoma City. Finally, on Oct. 12 at the Oklahoma table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival, the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Center for the Book will present a tabletop display about Ellison and materials describing how Oklahoma is honoring one of its greatest authors.
Contact: Glenda Carlile, phone: 405-521-2502, fax: 405-525-7804, e-mail: gcarlile@oltn.odl.state.ok.us