Terry Tempest Williams
听If You Go
Date:听November 2, 2005
Time:听7:00听PM
Where:听Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC
2005 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient
Author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams will be honored by the University of Colorado at Boulder鈥檚 Center of the American West on Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m.
The Center will present Williams with its highest recognition, the Wallace Stegner Award. The free public event will be in the University Memorial Center鈥檚 Glenn Miller Ballroom. Williams also will be available to sign books at a reception before the event at 5:00 p.m. Given Williams鈥 popularity, audience members are encouraged to arrive early for the reception and award presentation.
The Stegner Award presentation will feature an interview and discussion of Williams鈥 career conducted by Patty Limerick, Professor of History and Environmental Studies and Chair of the Board at听the Center of the American West, and Charles Wilkinson, Distinguished Professor of Law at CU-Boulder.
A well-known writer and naturalist, Williams is perhaps most noted for her book听Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. She has long been active in environmental and conservation issues in the West. She also has testified twice before the U.S. Congress about women鈥檚 health and the environmental links to cancer.
Her work has appeared in national and international publications, including听The New Yorker,听The Nation,听Outside,听Audubon,听Orion,听The Iowa Review, and听The New England Review. Williams is the author of ten books, including two children鈥檚 books.
鈥淭erry Tempest Williams is one of those unusual people who is as memorable and moving as a speaker as she is as a writer,鈥 Limerick said. 鈥淚f you never quite understood what it means to say that someone has a 鈥榬adiant and charismatic personality,鈥 you can find out on the evening of November 2.鈥
The Center presents the Wallace Stegner Award to individuals who have made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or understanding of the West. John Nichols, author of听The Milagro Beanfield War, was the most recent recipient of the award in 2003. Other recipients include N. Scott Momaday, Rudolfo Anaya, Vine Deloria, Jr., and Alvin Josephy.
The handmade certificate features a personalized inscription to reflect the recipient鈥檚 distinguished accomplishments and includes a $1,000 cash award. The Wallace Stegner Award is sponsored by the Olson Family.
The Center of the American West originated in a conversation between Limerick and Wilkinson in 1986, and focuses on identifying and addressing critical issues in the West.