Two authors who are part of Pleasantville's Marmaduke Writing Factory will receive the Washington Irving Book Award at an awards ceremony on May 13. Marilyn Johnson's This Book is Overdue and Joe Wallace's Diamond Ruby are among more than a dozen books that have been selected to receive the 2011 Washington Irving Book Award.
The Westchester Library Association gives the award to recognize novels and nonfiction books written by Westchester writers. Some of the other winners this year include Jonathan Tropper's This Is Where I Leave You, James Bradley's The Imperial Cruise, Cynthia Ozick's Foreign Bodies, and Don Delillo's Point Omega. The award ceremony will take place at the Westchester Library Association's conference on May 13 in Tarrytown for librarians, library staff, supporters and library students throughout the New York metropolitan area.
The Marmaduke Writing Factory is a writers' group that is based out of the Marmaduke Forster House in Pleasantville. The writers' group strives to choose each written word with care and form characters and prose with no "discernible defects."
