Hello?

[Rebekah]

I found this group by happenstance. I'm in a group called Reading With Style that has seasonal challenges to try to complete. One of the tasks for the Spring 2012 challenge was to read a winner from either the NBCC list, the Pulitzer Prize Winner list or the Pen/Faulkner's winner list. I had planned to read Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price . The book's cover said it was the winner of the 1986 NBCC award. However, when I went to their website, they gave another book as the winner. I e-mailed the President of the Board and have received two very gracious replies. One from the president and as well as from another member, confirming there was a mistake and Kate really was the winner. I'll post their replies that show their interest about a book group reading NBCC winners. I thought this would interest this group.

[Rebekah]

Flag this messageRe: Kate Vaiden-1986 winner?Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:11 PMFrom: "Eric Banks" Add sender to ContactsTo: "Rebekah Williams Cessna" Dear Rebekah,


I think you might be right--I just did a quick web search and it seems that our list is incorrect (I'm honesty not certain who compiled our list of winners and finalists; it was done a few years back). How odd!


Is your group planning on dedicating itself to NBCC winners exclusively? It's a terrific idea!


Best, Eric






On Apr 15, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Rebekah Williams Cessna wrote:


Dear Sir,
Your website shows A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor as winning the award in 1986 but in every other reference, including the cover of the book itself, state Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price is the winner. Other than your website, I can find no author website, book website, news article or anything else deny what is above the title of my copy of Kate Vaiden. Is this an error? I'd like to know the answer because our book club is challenging its members to read books from the NBCC winners list only.
Thank you for your time.
Regrds,
Rebekah Cessna

[Rebekah]

Flag this messageRe: Kate Vaiden-1986 winner?Monday, April 16, 2012 4:57 PMFrom: "Mark Athitakis" Add sender to ContactsTo: bekalynn825@yahoo.comDear Ms. Cessna,

Hello. My name is Mark Athitakis, and I'm a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. I wanted to thank you for taking the time to inform us of the error on the awards page of our website. Reynolds Price's "Kate Vaiden" was indeed the fiction winner for 1986. I've updated the page to reflect the correct information.

If I may ask, how long has your book club been reading NBCC finalists?

Thanks again and all best,

Mark Athitakis
National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors