Here's info on the Great Plains distinguished book prize. This is most often won by a historian, alas. But that can change. http://www.unl.edu/plains/bookprize/bookprize.shtml Best, Tom --- Tom Lynch Associate Professor Chair, Undergraduate Studies Editor, *Western American Literature* Department of English 202 Andrews Hall P.O. Box 880333 University of Nebraska, Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0333 <[log in to unmask]> <<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>><<<>>> *"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.* *New Books:* *The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place <http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/the_bioregional_imagination>* *Artifacts & Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley <http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Artifacts-and-Illuminations,674965.aspx>* Homepage <http://english.unl.edu/tlynch2/> Faculty Page <http://english.unl.edu/faculty/profs/tlynch.html>