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  Writing for Business and Pleasure
  Copyright by Stephen Wilbers
  www.wilbers.com

Join the Minnesota Authors Campaign
for the New Minneapolis Central Library!

Do you believe in the power of community?


Thanks so much for your participation in
the Minnesota Authors Campaign!

Thanks to your generosity, we raised more than $100,000 in support of our beautiful new downtown library.

Minnesota authors for whom chairs have been designated
Each named chair in our beautiful new state-of-the-art, 235-seat auditorium stands as a tribute to our dynamic literary community.

David Mura on libraries, including two poems,
presented at the September 18, 2006, celebration of
Minnesota authors and their generous supporters

"Where would we be without libraries?"
by Stephen Wilbers

Why was the campaign begun?
In 2000, as a testimony to their love of the Minneapolis Public Library, the citizens of Minneapolis overwhelmingly approved a referendum that has raised $110 million toward the $125 million project, leaving a $15 million margin to be raised from private sources.

A group of authors led by Judith Guest and Charles Baxter, along with the Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library, has now met its goal by raising $15 million. Other committee members include Sandra Benitez, Kate DiCamillo, Louise Erdrich, Susan Carol Hauser, Robert Hedin, Lorna Landvik, James Lenfestey, Alison McGhee, George Rabasa, Bart Schneider, Faith Sullivan, Laura Waterman Wittstock, and R. D. Zimmerman. Any additional funds received will be dedicated to purchase books and materials for the new Central Library and all 14 community libraries.

The Friends of the Library is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization incorporated with the State of Minnesota. All donations are deductible to the full extent of the law. The Friends acknowledges that no goods or services will be exchanged for your gift.

On a personal note, as a Father's Day present in 2005, my wife Debbie and my children Eddy and Kate donated the funds to have a chair named in my honor. It was one of the nicest Father's Day gifts they have ever given to me, and I take special pleasure in knowing their thoughtfulness will benefit the new Minneapolis Library.

Which authors qualify as Minnesota authors?
To qualify, authors must reside, or have resided, in Minnesota, and must have published a book, published an article, story, or poem in a magazine or newspaper, written a play that was produced, or sold a screenplay.

If you'd like me to add a name to my list of Minnesota authors, please send me an e-mail

Minnesota authors with partially funded chairs

How and why are Minnesota authors supporting this campaign?

"As valued members of this community, Minnesota authors have already added to the body of knowledge that the Library offers its citizens. This ground-swell of support from the literary community is inspiring and sends a strong message to all about the importance of the Minneapolis Public Library to our statewide community."

-- Colin Hamilton, Friends Executive Director

 

"Ever since I was a kid, libraries have lured me, taught me, sustained me. What I love most about the Minneapolis Public Library is the absolute certainty that I will be able to find anything and everything I need within its walls. Even now I am looking at an obscure, out of print title on my desk: Lizzie Borden, A Dance of Death by Agnes DeMille, which I borrowed from my neighborhood Hennepin County Library. And where did they find it? An inter-library loan from the Minneapolis Public Library."

-- Judith Guest

"Stories save us, of this I am certain. Where else but at the library can be contained all the stories we'll ever need to restore and preserve us?"

-- Sandra Benitez

"An author -- or a would-be author -- goes to the library the way a musician goes to the concert hall, as a place to learn and a place to be. The library is the brightest and warmest resource word-people have. It is still one of the traditional markers of civilized life. In the library, the past is still alive; it is where the dead are speaking to us. In the stacks, among those books, writers and readers can raise their voices and hear other voices speaking. The myth of the silent library is false. Death has no dominion there."

-- Charles Baxter

Authors with partially funded chairs

Minnesota authors for whom chairs have been named
(224 chairs)

Jonis Agee
Louis Alemayehu
Joseph Amato
Carol Ann Anderson
Edna A. Anderson

Annette Atkins
Marge Rogers Barrett
Charles Baxter
Sandra Benitez
Jim Berg

Lisa Ann Berg
John Berryman
Lee Blessing
Robert Bly
Ann Bogle

Barrie Jean Borich
Betsy Bowen
Betty Bridgman
Carol Ryrie Brink
Michael Dennis Browne

Emilie Buchwald

Lois McMaster Bujold
Kevin J. Cashman
Marsha Wilson Chall
Sharon Chmielarz

Gabrielle F. Civil
Taiyon Coleman
Carol Connolly
Kathleen Coskran
Florence Chard Dacey

Philip Dacey
Leo Dangel
Pierre Delattre
Kate DiCamillo
Carol Dines

Jim Dochniak
Michael Dorris
Kat Duff
Bob Dylan
Jack El-Hai

Heid E. Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
K. J. Erickson
Sara Evans
Robert O. Fisch

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barbara Flanagan
Charles Macomb Flandrau
Pamela R. Fletcher
Patricia Weaver Francisco

Arvonne Fraser
Patti Frazee
Iris C. Freeman
Orville L. Freeman
Thomas L. Friedman

Future Minnesota authors
Mary Gabriel
Wanda Gag
Stephen Gammell
Juanita Garciagodoy

Abigail Garner
Larry Gavin
Diane Glancy
Natalie Goldberg
Dan Graves

Graywolf Press Authors

Cheryl Green
Alvin Greenberg
Paul Gruchow
Judith Guest

Larry Haeg
Gus Hall
Colin Hamilton
Patricia Hampl
Phebe Hanson

Ellen Hart
Margaret Hasse
Jon Hassler
Pete Hautman
Sharon Darby Hendry

Michael J. Henley

Greg Hewett
Jim Heynen
William Hezlep
Amy J. Hinds

Kim Hines
Carolyn Holbrook
Bill Holm
Ari Hoptman
William S. Howell

Louis Jenkins
Elizabeth Bourque Johnson
Mary L. Junge
Judith Katz
Deborah Keenan

Garrison Keillor
Peg Kerr
Susan Deborah King
Duke Klassen
Kevin Kling

Kathryn Kysar
Lorna Landvik
Katherine Lanpher
David Lebedoff
Ed Bok Lee

Sherry Quan Lee
Jim Lenfestey
Rodney E. Leonard
Meridel LeSueur
Vicky Lettmann


Anne Gillespie Lewis
Kathy Lewis
Sinclair Lewis
Roseann Lloyd
Mary Logue
 
Delos W. Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace
Harvey Mackay
Brian Malloy
Judith Mattison

Roy McBride
Patricia Condon McDonald
Alison McGhee
Thomas McGrath
Susan Hunter McLean

Susan Kay McLean
Anna George Meek
Margaret J. (Peg) Meier
Ken Meter
Maureen Millea-Smith

Leslie Adrienne Miller
John Minczeski
Howard Mohr
Jim Moore
Mai Neng Moua

Edith Mucke
Dale Mulfinger
David Mura
Joseph E. Murphy
Marguerite Murphy

Ivan Musicant
Paul C. Nagel
Margaret M. Nelson
Pamela Hill Nettleton
Tim Nolan

Tim O'Brien
Isabel Monk O'Connor

Sheila O'Connor
Don Olsen
Oliver K. Olson

Sigurd Olson
Jeannine Ouellette

Joe Paddock
Gordon Parks
Alexs Pate

Irene Paull

Juliana Pegues
Jane Pejsa
Christine A. Peterson
Thien-bao Thuc Phi

Arthur Phillips
Michael M. Phillips
David Pichaske
Wang Ping
Sally J. Power

J. F. Powers
Marsha Qualey
George Rabasa
Willam Reichard
Thomas E. Reiersgord

Cheri Register
Joanne Reisberg
Mary Francois Rockcastle
Beverly Rollwagen
Ole E. Rolvaag

John Michael Rosengren
Calvin Rutstrum
Ewa Rydaker
Roxanne Sadovsky
Jane St. Anthony

John Sanford

John Sayer
Pauline Schatzlein
Neala Schleuning
Charles Schulz

Julie Schumacher
John L. Shannon, Jr.
John T. Shepherd
Al Sicherman
Margot Siegel

Rolf Norman Skogerboe
Alec Soth
Faith Sullivan
Larry Sutin
Joyce Sutphen

Bart Sutter
Wallace K. Swan
Catherine Thimmesh
Jane Resh Thomas
Brad L. Thompson

Stew Thornley & Brenda Himrich
JoAnne Van Tilburg
Susan Allen Toth
Anne Ursu
Ka Vang

Carla Waldemar
Connie Wanek
Catherine Watson
Beth Weatherby
Jack Weatherford

Susan Welch

Stephen Wilbers
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Morgan Grayce Willow
August Wilson

Laura Waterman Wittstock

Warren Woessner
Bryan Thao Worra
Patricia C. Wrede
Vincent Wyckoff

Biloine (Billie) Young
Nolan Zavoral
R. D. Zimmerman
Jon Zurn
 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Thanks so much for your participation in
the Minnesota Authors Campaign!

Thanks to your generosity, we raised more than $100,000 in support of our beautiful new downtown library.


Minnesota authors and their generous supporters

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged


   Jonis Agee
        Chair!



 

Mary Ann Adrian
Heid E. Erdrich
Kathryn Kysar
Jim Dochniak
Leslie Adrienne Miller
 

       $500




 
   Louis Alemayehu
        Chair!









 
Gayla Ellis
Thembi aka Valerie Geaither
Grandchildren Dayna, Cylas,
  and Aminah
Ellen Hinchcliffe and Juma
   Essie
Michael Luft
Carei Thomas
Joyce Thomas
Nadinne Cruz
Barry Kleider
 
       $500










 

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged

   Joseph Amato
        Chair!

 
Eileen E. Thomas
Michael Kopp
Beth Lindholm
Catherine Amato
       $500


 
   Carol Ann Anderson
        Chair!

 

James A. Anderson,

Eric Anderson and
  Janalee Aurelia

 

       $500


 
   Edna A. Anderson
        Chair!







 
Mark and Kari Baumbach
Paige Berg and Peter Cookson
Karina Berg
Edward and Sharon Peckels
Mark and Barbara Johns
Lonni and Cindy Johns
Gary and Rachel LeTendre
Nancy and Russ Petersen
Yvonne and Jerry Lundholm
 
      $1,050








 

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Contributors  

Total pledged

   Elizabeth Andrew
 
Barbara Davis
 
       $100
 
   Annette Atkins
        Chair!

 
Ross Sutter and Mary Lofgren
John Taylor
Tom Joyce
 
       $500


 
   Conrad Balfour

 
Vicky Lettmann
Pamela R. Fletcher
 
       $150

 
   Marge Rogers
     Barrett

        Chair!
 
Alice Ross Rogers


 
       $500


 
   Charles Baxter
        Chair!
 

Arturo L. Steely

 

       $500

 

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged


   Sandra Benitez
        Chair!
 

Liz Petrangelo

 

       $500

 
   Lisa Ann Berg
        Chair!



 
Alison Grey
Gwenn Solseth
Nik Neu
Karen Gustafson and Beth
   Furth
 
       $500




 
   Jim Berg
        Chair!











 

James Berg and Gary Schiff

Bunny Greenwald

Cara Letofsky

Kelley L. Lindquist

Peter McLaughlin

Jane Miller, Judith A. Neiswander

Mary Petrie and
  John Thompson

Lynette Reini-Grandell

Brian Shekleton

William G. Weber, Jr.
 

       $500

 

 

 

 


 

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Contributors  

Total pledged


   John Berryman
        Chair!


 

Leslie Adrienne Miller
Kathryn Kysar
The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund

 

       $500



 
   Lee Blessing
        Chair!

 
The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund


 
       $500


 
   Carol Bly
 
Jean Replinger
 
        $50
 
   Robert Bly
        Chair!


 
Jim Heynen
Kathryn Kysar
The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund

 
       $500



 
   Ann Bogle
        Chair!



 
Bruce Johnson
Maureen E. Mulvihill
Alexis Quinlan
Robin Reagler

Tony Sanders
 

       $500

 


 

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged


   Barrie Jean Borich
        Chair!





 

Judith Katz
Adoring Husband
Peter Farstad
Paul Mellblom
Jeanie Taylor
Fay Marie DeBellis
Robert A. Borich
 

       $500






 
   Betsy Bowen

        Chair!

 

The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund


 
       $500


 
   Betty Bridgman
        Chair!







 
George Bridgman
John Bridgman
William Bridgman
Art Bridgman and Myrna
   Packer
Paul and Katherine (Bridgman)
   Ellgen
Anne (Reeves) Austin and
   Hersh Austin
 
       $500








 
   Carol Ryrie Brink
        Chair!


 
Stephanie Smith
Kerry Wyckoff
The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund

 
       $500



 
   Ignatia Broker

 
Roseann Lloyd
Heid E. Erdrich
 
       $100

 
   John M. Bryson

 
Barbara Crosby, John K.
   Bryson, and Jessica Bryson

 
        $50

 

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged


   Mary Casanova
 

Jean Replinger

 

        $50
 
   Nancy Carlson

 
Katie and Tim McGinley and
   family
 
       $200

 
   Michael Dennis
     Browne
        Chair!

 
Annie Breitenbucher
Julie Schumacher
Deborah Keenan
Beverly Rollwagen

 
       $500



 

   Emilie Buchwald   
        Chair!

 

The Friends of the Minneapolis
   Public Library Author Fund


 
       $500


 
   Lois McMaster
     Bujold

        Chair!
 
The Lois McMaster Bujold
   Mailing List

 
       $500


 
   Kevin J. Cashman
        Chair!
 

LeaderSource Inc.

 

       $500

 
   Marsha Wilson Chall
        Chair!


 

Lindsay and Robbie Chall
John R. Zeyer
Mary Ann Hoese
David and Marilynn Cook

 

       $500



 

Author   

Contributors  

Total pledged


  
Sharon Chmielarz
        Chair!

 

Ann Bauleke
Ted and Ella Grenz
Tad Chmielarz

 

        $500


 
   Gabrielle F. Civil
        Chair!

 

Family, friends, and colleagues

Kate and Andre Civil

Myrtle Jean Jones
 

        $500


 
   Taiyon Coleman
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