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Saturday, September 7, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Award-winning author Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, a Galesburg native and 1948 Knox College graduate, will speak at 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, in the Common Room, Old Main, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Van Steenwyk has written more than 50 books for young people and more than 200 magazine articles and short stories. She won the Helen Keating Ott Award from the Church and Synagogue Library Association and was nominated for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award.
Van Steenwyk's newest book, "One Fine Day," is forthcoming from Eerdman's. Her other books include two set during World War II -- "Maggie in the Morning," about a girl spending the summer of 1941 in Oquawka, Illinois, and "A Traitor Among Us," about a boy living in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1944. "When Abraham Talked to Trees" is about Abraham Lincoln's love for books as a boy; and "My Name is York," is about the Lewis and Clark expedition, told from the point of view of Clark's young slave.
Van Steenwyk's books have been praised in School Library Journal as "well-researched and well-documented." She has profiled Civil War photographer Matthew Brady, jeans-maker Levi Strauss, civil rights leader Ida B. Wells-Barnett, artist Frederic Remington, U.S, President Dwight Eisenhower and skater Peggy Fleming.
Van Steenwyk also is president and general manager of Adelaida Cellars, a winery in Paso Robles, California. Prior to her career as an author, she worked in radio and television programming.
The lecture is sponsored by the Department of English and the John and Elaine Fellowes Fund.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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