Authors Ann Angel and Jacqueline Houtman will be honored at the prestigious Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Luncheon on May 14 at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. The awards honor works published in 2010. Additional details are available on the Council’s website, www.wisconsinwriters.org.
Ann Angel of Brookfield will receive the Kingery/Derleth Book-Length Nonfiction Award and $500 for Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing (Amulet Books, 2010).
Jacqueline Houtman of Madison will receive the Tofte/Wright Children’s Literature Award and $500 for The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Boyd’s Mills Press, March 2010).
In addition, M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman of Milwaukee will be given honorable mention for Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2010, with Zane Williams, photographer).
All four authors are scheduled to appear at the 2011 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books.