The Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize is a prize awarded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to the best full-length, professionally published English language book on the Great Plains. The books also must have been published within the year preceding the awards.
Famous quotes containing the words plains, book and/or prize:
“When I say artist I don’t mean in the narrow sense of the word—but the man who is building things—creating molding the earth—whether it be the plains of the west—or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction—some with a brush—some with a shovel—some choose a pen.”
—Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)