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JAMES PATTERSON
ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL
$100,000 JAMES PATTERSON PAGETURNER AWARDS
New York, NY, November 22, 2005: James Patterson announced today the 34 winners of the 2005 James Patterson PageTurner Awards, who will receive cash prizes totaling more than $100,000. Among the winners are schools, bookstores, libraries, and other organizations, as well as individuals, that go to extraordinary lengths to spread the joy of books and reading across the country.
After reviewing more than 1,500 nominations over four months, Mr. Patterson is honoring schools who rally their students and entire communities around annual reading extravaganzas for thousands; local radio hosts who passionately promote writers and their books on the air (one even has her own action figure!); the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, who made reading a critical part of his campaign; doctors and nurses who teach the importance of making reading a lifelong activity; individuals who mobilize the Hollywood community to celebrate reading; local libraries that provide reading programs and safe havens for underprivileged youth; and an NBA star who’s not too famous to return to his hometown to promote the excitement of books and reading.
James Patterson says: “This is the proudest moment of my writing career, by a lot. I’ve read the nominations and was moved by so many of them. Next year, I promise, we’ll make this an even bigger event and try to include any worthy cause we may have missed this time.”
$1,000 PAGETURNER AWARD WINNERS:
Suzanne Beecher and Dear Reader.com Sarasota, FL
John B. Gorrie Elementary School Tampa, FL
Esme Raji Codell Chicago, IL
Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s Florida BookPALS Orlando, FL
New York City Police Museum New York, NY
Center for the Book Fairfax, VA
Melanie Moore / Badgerdo Literary Publishing Austin, TX
Community Works San Francisco, CA
Mayor John Peyton Jacksonville, FL
Books for Boys at The Children’s Village Dobbs Ferry, NY
Behind the Books New York, NY
Barri Rosenblum Evins / From the Heart Los Angeles, CA
Victor Iannone, Borders Ann Arbor, MI
Nancy Quinn, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop Milwaukee, WI
Mary Gay Shipley- That Bookstore in Blytheville Blytheville, AR
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Kim Charlson / Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library Watertown, MA
MEDIA PAGETURNER MERIT AWARD WINNERS
Oprah Winfrey Chicago, IL
Nancy Pearl, KUOW-FM Seattle, WA
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, New York Public Radio New York, NY
Terry Gross, National Public Radio Philadelphia, PA
Don Imus New York, NY
Today, NBC New York, NY
Good Morning America, ABC New York, NY
The Early Show, CBS New York, NY
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