Congratulations, Alan!  Amazing distinction and well deserved!

Ben

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:33 AM Taylor Roberts <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Congratulations to Alan Gribben for being awarded the Eugene Current-Garcia
> Award for Alabama's Distinguished Literary Scholar, which is the highest
> honor for an English professor in his state.
>
> Twainians have long been beneficiaries of Gribben's _MT's Library_ (1980
> and updates in press), editorship of the _MT Journal_ (2009-2020), and many
> other scholarly contributions to MT studies, some of which are listed in
> the award announcement at
>
> https://www.monroevilleliteraryfestival.com/post/dr-alan-gribben-selected-as-eugene-current-garcia-recipient
>
> Forum members are invited to the virtual award ceremony where Alan will
> have the opportunity to discuss how his half-century quest to research Mark
> Twain's literary resources has influenced his life:
>
> Talk Title: "Living in Mark Twain's Mind: A Fifty-Year Puzzle" by Dr. Alan
> Gribben
> Date: March 4, 2021
> Time: 6:30-7:30 PM Central Standard Time (7:30pm EST / 4:30 PST)
> Location: Zoom
> Free registration:
> https://www.monroevilleliteraryfestival.com/registration
>
> After you register they will send you the Zoom information the day before.
>
> Congratulations again to Alan!
>
> -TR
>


-- 
Ben Click
Professor, English
Director, Writing & Speaking Center
Editor, *The* *Mark Twain Annual*
Director, Twain Lecture Series on
American Humor and Culture
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St. Mary's College of Maryland