Grant applications available for John Steinbeck Centennial Applications are available for The Steinbeck Centennial Project, which offers $500 grants to libraries to present public programs on the life and work of John Steinbeck (1902-1968). To obtain a grant application or apply online, please visit www.Steinbeck100.org. The postmark deadline for applications is October 15, 2001. The Steinbeck Centennial Project provides funding for a variety of public programs, including lectures by Steinbeck scholars, panel discussions featuring scholars or writers familiar with the themes portrayed in Steinbeck's works (e.g., rural poverty, migration, oceanography and ecology, WWII and the Vietnam War), screenings of films based on Steinbeck's works, scholar- or teacher-led book discussion groups, or discussions of the differences and similarities between the book and film versions of one of Steinbeck's works. Libraries applying for a grant are required to develop a program for a public audience based on one of the aforementioned program ideas or a new idea that explores Steinbeck's life and work. Born in 1902, John Steinbeck was the son of a mill manager and former schoolteacher. After growing up in the agricultural area of central California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University, but never earned a degree. Instead, he went to work as a laborer in California and New York City before becoming a full-time writer in the late 1920s. His signature approach -writing about the plight of ordinary men and women, often lonely, cut off, struggling for self-determination - is evident in many of his novels and short stories. Steinbeck is the author of several classic works of fiction, including "Tortilla Flat" (1935), "Of Mice and Men" (1937), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939), "The Pearl" (1947) and "East of Eden" (1952). The Steinbeck Centennial Project is an initiative of The Mercantile Library of New York and the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). For questions about this program, please send an e-mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call Harold Augenbraum at (212) 755-6710. Posted by..... Stephanie Stokes, Prez FRIENDS & FOUNDATIONS of Callifornia Libraries 415-749-0130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.friendcalib.org ________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include in body: unsubscribe ctls-l For information on CTLS-L please visit: http://www.ctls.net/document/ctls-l.htm
