Congratulations to Professor Edward Baring and Dr. Linda Connors, C ‘64, winners of the Bela Kornitzer awards for outstanding non-fiction books.  Non-fiction books published in 2011 and 2012 were eligible for the competition.  Two prizes were awarded—one to a member of the Drew Faculty and one to a Drew graduate.

The awards were announced at the January 19, 2013 biennial Library Gala by Noémi K. Neidorff, who paid tribute to her uncle and to her parents who established the award in his name, and presented by Vivian Bull, President and Andrew Scrimgeour, Dean of Libraries.

Faculty Award

Dr. Edward Baring, Assistant Professor of
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968
(Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Alumni/ae Award
Dr. Linda Connors, Senior Librarian for Collections Emerita
Co-author, Mary Lu MacDonald
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851:
The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
(Ashgate, 2011)

The Kornitzer Prize Endowment was established twenty years ago by the late Alicia Kornitzer Karpati and her husband George Karpati to honor Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother, for his achievements as a journalist and author in Hungary and the United States.  The Drew University Library houses among its special collections the Bela Kornitzer Collection.  The award includes a $2,000 prize.

Historian David S. Reynolds, Featured Author

The Friends of the Library will host their tenth biennial Benefit Dinner on January 19, 2013, with Honorary Dinner Chairs, Robert and Vivian Bull. The evening begins at Kirby Theatre with a program featuring award-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds, who will speak on “Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America”—the title of his most recent book (2011).

Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City of New York, is the author or editor of 15 books including Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (2008), Walt Whitman (2005), and John Brown: Abolitionist (2005), and is the editor of what is considered the definitive reproduction of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2011). He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reynolds is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Following the 6 p.m. program, guests will gather in Mead Hall for the Gala reception and dinner, including presentation of the Béla Kornitzer book prizes. The Gala benefits the Friends of the Library Book Endowment Fund.

Click here for a .pdf of the full invitation.

RSVP by January 4. For more information, please call the Library at 973.408.3471

Please send or bring submissions including: book, letter of nomination, and reviews
if available to:
Dr. Andrew Scrimgeour
Dean of Libraries
Drew University Library
Madison, NJ 07940

All submitted books will be added to the University Archives Faculty and Alumni Collection. The submission deadline is October 30, 2012.

The Kornitzer Award was established in 1992, by Alicia and George Karpati to honor the achievements of Mrs. Karpati’s brother, Belá Kornitzer, as a journalist and author in Hungary and the United States. The Library maintains a special collection related to Mr. Kornitzer’s books and career.  For further information about the Kornitzer awards, contact the Library at 973.408.3471.

– This article originally appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of Visions, the Library Newsletter

Congratulations to Professor Sharon Sundue and Dr. Robert McParland, G’05, winners of the Bela Kornitzer awards for outstanding non-fiction books. Non-fiction books published in 2009 and 2010 were eligible for the 2010 prize competition. Two prizes were awarded—one to a Drew Graduate and one to a member of the Drew Faculty. The awards were announced at the January 29, 2011 biennial Library Gala by Dean of Libraries Andrew Scrimgeour and presented by Noémi K. Neidorff, who paid tribute to her uncle and to her parents, who established the award in his name.

Faculty Award

Dr. Sharon Sundue, Associate Professor of History
Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720-1820 (University of Virginia Press, 2009)

Alumni Award

Dr. Robert McParland, G’05, Associate Professor of English, Felician College
Charles Dickens’s American Audience (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)

The Kornitzer Prize Endowment was established eighteen years ago at Drew by the late Alicia Kornitzer Karpati and her husband George Karpati to honor Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother, for his achievements as a journalist and author in Hungary and the United States. Drew University Library houses among its special collections the Bela Kornitzer Collection