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Updated: 7/23/2008 11:34:05 AM
Former Voice owner wins state’s top author award
The Michigan Center for the Book on Wednesday announced that Tom Stanton, author of award winning books on baseball and American life, as the winner of the 2008 Michigan Author Award.
Stanton, of New Baltimore, is the former editor and co-owner of The Voice newspapers.
Sponsored jointly by the Michigan Center for the Book, a program of the Library of Michigan, and the Michigan Library Association, this annual award honors a Michigan writer for his or her contributions to literature based on an outstanding published body of work.
The Michigan Author Award will be presented this fall at the Michigan Library Association’s “Shaping Our Tomorrow” conference in Kalamazoo. Stanton will speak at the award presentation luncheon Oct. 24. Tickets are $25.
Stanton writes about the memorable players and places of baseball, but most of all, how baseball is part of American life. His newest book, “Ty and the Babe: Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals,” is the story of Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb’s rivalry and friendship.
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