August 13, 2007

　C-SPAN’s Book TV Bus visits Olympia, Saturday 8/18

Step aboard and tour the Book TV Bus, cable station C-SPAN2's mobile television production studio, when it stops at the Olympia Timberland Library parking lot from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, August 18. Award winning author Timothy Egan will be interviewed at 11:30 a.m. in the library’s meeting room. People will able to watch the interview and ask questions afterward. The interview will be taped for later broadcast.

Egan’s most recent book, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, won this year’s National Book Award for nonfiction. The National Book Foundation presents one award annually in each of four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature.

Egan won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for coauthoring a series of articles on race in America. Egan’s first book, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, won the 1999 Governor’s Writing Award, Washington State. Based in Seattle, Egan is a reporter for the New York Times.

C-SPAN2 televises programs on nonfiction books and authors each weekend. The Book TV Bus has been on the road since 2005, interviewing authors of nonfiction books and collecting interesting literary programming from communities around the country. Recent Olympia Timberland Library programs relating to books such as The Wizard of Oz and the Harry Potter series attracted Book TV’s attention.

For more information, please call the library at (360) 352-0595.

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Revised 08/14/07