Congratulations to Seth Lerer
who has been named the winner of the 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism! A University of California at San Diego faculty member and the dean of arts and humanities, Lerer won for Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter. The book, which previously won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a scholarly volume also aimed at an audience beyond academe. The book is also a kind of "intellectual autobiography," touching on Lerer's own youthful passion for reading and his experience as a parent. "I thought about it from a personal view, watching how my son grew into a reader," he said.
Lerer will receive his award May 6 at the University of Iowa.
This award carries the largest cash prize annually for literary criticism - US$30,000. Books of general literary criticism in English, published during the last four years, are eligible for nomination.
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