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Authors with Hoosier ties honored

By Shari Rudavsky
shari.rudavsky@indystar.com

Fort Wayne native Michael Martone, who has lived in Alabama, Iowa and Massachusetts but has always interspersed tales of his home state in his work, has won this year’s Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award.

The $10,000 prize honors an author with Indiana ties who has written books with national impact. Winners are evaluated on their life’s work and must either have been born in Indiana or lived there for five years.

The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation oversees the award program, which comes with a $2,500 grant to a public library of the winner’s choosing. The award is supported by the Glick Fund, part of the Central Indiana Community Foundation.

Martone, a professor at the University of Alabama, has written a number of books, including most recently “Four for a Quarter.” Other works include “Not Normal,” “Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover,” and “The Blue Guide to Indiana.”

“There was never a time in my 40 years of writing that I have not written about Indiana. My readers outside the state are always amazed to discover this baffling and beautiful land in my stories,” said Martone in a written statement. “And, look at this, the old home surprises me again with this gift of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. I am profoundly grateful.”

Martone attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

James H. Madison, the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, is the winner of this year’s regional author award. Madison — who receives $7,500, plus $2,500 for his favorite public library — is the author of a biography of Eli Lilly, as well as the book “The Indiana Way: A State History.”

Madison and Martone will be honored at an awards dinner Oct. 26 at the Central Library. Regular-priced tickets are $75 and can be purchased at www.indianauthorsaward.org.

At the fifth annual dinner, the winner of the Emerging Author Award also will be named. The three finalists for the honor are Mike Mullin (“Ashfall”), Tricia Fields (“The Territory”) and Kelsey Timmerman (“Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories and People That Make Our Clothes”) have been named as finalists for the Emerging Author Award.

Earlier in the day, the public is invited to attend the free 2013 Indy Author Fair, which includes author appearances and workshops for aspiring writers.

Contact Star reporter Shari Rudavsky at (317) 444-6354 or on Twitter.
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