2011 Evil Companions Literary Award
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The Denver Public Library Friends Foundation is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2011 Evil Companions Literary Award:
Award-Winning Author Ted Conover
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Thanks to all for attending the 2011 Evil Companions Literary Award held on Thursday, April 14, 2011. Thank you Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, Dana Crawford, owner of the Oxford Hotel, and Colorado State University Professor of English, David Milofsky, for conceiving and producing this remarkable literary event.
A well-known Colorado native, Ted Conover is a graduate of Denver’s Manual High School and Amherst College. His nonfiction work covers a vast array of subjects, from the rarified air of Aspen to riding the rails with hoboes. In the 1990s, Conover took a job at Sing Sing prison in New York, where he worked for nearly a year – without the state’s knowledge – as a rookie correctional officer. This resulted in Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction.
Conover’s most recent work is The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World.. He lives in New York City, where he is a distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. Visit Ted Conover online.
Ted Conover’s books:
Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes
Whiteout: Lost in Aspen
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World
Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
The Evil Companions Literary Award is presented annually in April to a poet or writer who embodies the spirit of the original Evil Companions. The award pays homage to a group of Denver writers who met in the 1950s and '60s to drink and discuss writing, and dubbed themselves the Evil Companions. Working to preserve the memory of the original Evil Companions are Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store, Dana Crawford, owner of the Oxford Hotel, and Colorado State University Professor of English, David Milofsky. The trio created the literary award and its accompanying event to promote and build upon Denver’s deserved reputation as a center for writing and literature. The Evil Companions event has now become a local favorite. Proceeds from the event benefit the Denver Public Library.
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