Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound (Oregon State University Press) by UW Tacoma Librarian and Tacoma resident Justin Wadland is on the short list in the General / Nonfiction category of the 2015 Washington State Book Awards. Wadland received his MLIS from the Information School in 2003.
- View the KBTC interview with Wadland (25:20).
- Read a UW Today interview with Waldand (October 2014)
On the short list in the same category is Mary Randlett Portraits (University of Washington Press) by Frances McCue, writer-in-residence at the University of Washington's Undergraduate Honors Program.
Known for both her landscapes and portraits, Mary Randlett began documenting iconic Northwest artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves in 1949. Her photographs are in UW Libraries Special Collections. Nicolette Bromberg, visual materials curator in Special Collections, wrote the afterword.
The center for the book, headquartered in the Seattle Public Library, chose these books as finalists for each of the prizes. To be eligible, an author must have been born in Washington State or is a current resident and has maintained residence here for at least three years.
The winners will be announced Saturday Oct. 10 at an awards celebration at the Seattle Public Library.
Story published by University of Washington Libraries.