From the library's website:
Community Read 2011 Finale!
An Evening with Jane Brox
Jane Brox's book Five Thousand Days Like This One : An American Family History is this year's Community Read selection. We are very pleased to be able to welcome the author to the Library for the final event of the season.
Jane Brox is the author of four books: Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm; Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a 1999 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award; and Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light.
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She has received the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in many anthologies including Best American Essays, The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She has been awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
