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 2008 Poster 
Complete list of all Library of Michigan promotational materials for 2008 Michigan Notable Books
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Tom Bissell and Christopher Paul Curtis
 Father of All Things : A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Tom Bissell was born in Escanaba, Michigan, in 1974. After graduating from Michigan State University, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan and then as a book editor in New York City. He wrote Father of All Things : A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam.
|  Elijah of Buxton, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
After a long stint on the assembly line at Fisher Body Flint Plant No. 1, Christopher Paul Curtis achieved a bestseller with the publication of Bud, Not Buddy, which won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award. Elijah of Buxton is a Coretta Scott King winner for 2008 and also a Newbery Honor book. He is a native of Flint, Michigan. He and his wife, Kaysandra, have two children and live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He loves to play basketball and collect old record albums. His favorite books include anything by Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Zora Neale Hurston
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Tyree Guyton
Thomas M. DeFrank
 Write it When I'm Gone : Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Thomas M. DeFrank is the Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Daily News and was Newsweek's White House Correspondent for a quarter century and deputy chief of the magazine's Washington Bureau for 12 years. First assigned by Newsweek to Ford in 1973, he traveled regularly with Ford aboard Air Force 2 and then Air Force 1 until 1977. DeFrank was the last reporter to interview Ford in May 2006 and the last to visit him in November 2006. He lives in Washington, DC.
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Mike Fornes
Dan Gerber
 A Primer on Parallel Lives, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Dan Gerber has published seven collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. His poetry book Trying to Catch the Horses (MSU Press, 1999) received ForeWord magazine's Gold Medal Book of the Year Award in Poetry. Gerber's work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Georgia Review, and Best American Poetry. With his wife, Debbie, and with numerous animals, he lives in the Santa Ynez Valley of central California.
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Jim Harrison
 Returning to Earth, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Jim Harrison was born in December in Grayling, MI, and has spent much of his life in Michigan. He now lives in Montana and has reluctantly sold his Michigan cabin. He is on the 2008 Michigan Notable Books list for Returning to Earth.
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Mark Hoffman
 My Brave Mechanics: The First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Mark Hoffman is the author of "My Brave Mechanics: The Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. The book is the culmination of more than twenty years of research on the subject and draws heavily on soldier letters, diaries, and other wartime primary sources. Hoffman is currently deputy director, Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries and earned a B. A. from Michigan State University.
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Lita Judge
 One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Lita Judge is a picture book author and illustrator. Her first book, One Thousand Tracings, is a true story about her grandparents, who lived in Pinckney, Michigan, and how they started a relief effort after WWII, which ultimately helped hundreds of families in Europe. One Thousand Tracings has won the National Parenting Publications Gold Award and has been honored by the New York Public Library and the Society of School Librarians International. Lita currently has picture books in progress with Hyperion, Roaring Brook Press and Viking.
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Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway
Ted Kluck
Elmore Leonard
 Up In Honey's Room, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, his family settled in Detroit, and he has remained in that area ever since. He graduated from the University of Detroit in 1950 with a degree in English and Philosophy.
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Diane B. Maddex
Maggie Nelson
 The Red Parts: A Memoir, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Maggie Nelson is the recent author of a critical study about poetry and painting titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007), as well as a fourth collection of poetry, Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007). She is the author of The Red Parts: A Memoir.
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Bich Minh Nguyen
John Otterbacher
 Sailing Grace, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
John Otterbacher has his doctorates in clinical psychology, has taught college, served as a state representative and senator (Michigan), worked as a psychotherapist, and taken some long sails.
He currently lives, writes, and maintains a small private practice in Michigan. Sailing Grace is his first book.
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Patty Pinner
Robert Dale Parker
Paul Trynka
 Iggy Pop : Open Up and Bleed, a 2008 Michigan Notable Book
Paul Trynka is a former editor of Mojo magazine. He has also been the editorial director of Q Magazine; launch editor of The Guitar Magazine, and editor?in?chief of New Projects at Emap. He is the author of Portrait of the Blues, and of Denim, a history of the fabric. He lives in Greenwich, London. He lives in Greenwich, London, with partner Lucy and son, Curtis. He wrote Iggy Pop : Open Up and Bleed.
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Eric Villegas
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