she was the recipient of the mary roberts rinehart award recentered feature at the festival to a woman writer specializing in nonfiction. this is a little under one hour. >> wonder things we did in building the festival was we started for awards, the award for encouraging reading, the poets award for poetry, the fairfax prize for lifetime achievement in fiction, and tonight we're giving away the mary roberts rinehart award for a woman who writes in nonfiction. the goal in creating the award was to try to focus attention on works that were important. add-on writers whose works are important. and to bring riders and readers together. so this is celebratory but also very much part and parcel of what the festival is about. eula biss who teaches at northwestern has won numerous other awards, called sandburg literary awards, the jackson writers award, and nonfiction prize, a national book creating circle award. she's a google time fellow. we thank you very much for coming and accepting what is a humble price compared to the others you have one. the previous books are "the balloonists" came o

she was the recipient of the mary roberts rinehart award recentered feature at the festival to a woman writer specializing in nonfiction. this is a little under one hour. >> wonder things we did in building the festival was we started for awards, the award for encouraging reading, the poets award