Congratulations are in order to Paula Harrington and Ronald Jenn for the nomination of their book _Mark Twain and France: The Making of a New American Identity_ (University of Missouri Press, 2017) for the Warren-Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism. The award was established in honor of Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) and Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) to recognize outstanding literary criticism published in the United States. Their book was reviewed on the Mark Twain Forum earlier this summer and that review is available online at: http://www.twainweb.net/reviews/MarkTwainAndFrance.html Barb