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On the Internet: Class of 1968, Nina Bernstein and Andre SpearsFrom: New York Public Library, Press Information, AND Pangaea PressNina Bernstein Wins the 2002 The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism; The Award Honors Bernstein’s The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care New York, May 9, 2002 -- Nina Bernstein has won the 2002 The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for her powerful book The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Pantheon Books). Ms. Bernstein (no relation to Helen Bernstein), whose book follows the challenge to the foster care system provoked by a controversial 1973 federal lawsuit, received the $15,000 award at a luncheon today. Now in its 15th year, the Library award honors a journalist whose work brings clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies. The ceremony was hosted by Library President Dr. Paul LeClerc in the Trustees Room of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The presentation of the award, one of the largest journalism prizes in the United States, was made jointly by Dr. LeClerc and Osborn Elliott, Chairman of the Selection Committee. The other four finalists received an Honorable Mention and a $1,000 prize: James Bamford for Body of Secrets (Doubleday), Steven Johnson for Emergence (Scribner), Andrew Solomon for The Noonday Demon (Scribner), and Diane McWhorter for Carry Me Home (Simon & Schuster). "The competition for this year’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism was stiff and the topics covered by the five finalists reflect some of our deepest concerns as a nation," said Mr. Elliott, Dean Emeritus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. "In her book, Nina Bernstein has expanded her excellent reporting into a truly notable work of nonfiction -- replete with all the pathos and fascinating characters one might expect to find in a novel." About the Book The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care is a study of America’s child-welfare system through the federal lawsuit that has touched three generations of children in one family. That 1973 class-action suit, filed in New York City, came to be known as Wilder after the 13-year-old plaintiff, Shirley Wilder, an abused runaway whose childhood was shaped by the system’s inequities. Nina Bernstein’s account takes the reader behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, and, in counterpoint, shows the consequences as they are played out in the life of Shirley and her son, Lamont. Bernstein paints vivid portraits of the players -- among them, Marcia Lowry, the attorney who made the lawsuit a personal crusade, and Lamont, whose terrifying journey through the system has produced a man with deep emotional wounds, and a son of his own growing up in the system’s shadow. About the Author Nina Bernstein is a reporter for The New York Times. In 1994, her New York Newsday series about Wilder won the Columbia Journalism School’s Mike Berger Award, and Ms. Bernstein was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship to continue her research into foster care. In 1995, she received the George Polk Award for distinguished metropolitan coverage. ****************************************************************************** André Spears was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the Lycée Français de New York. A graduate of Andover and Yale, he worked for some 25 years as a charter broker and part-owner in the Greek-American shipping business, from which he is now retired. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from N.Y.U., and lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Anne, and sons, Luke, Sam and Gil. He is the author of the sci-fi poem in prose Letters from Mu (Part I) , which was published as an artist’s book in France in 2000 by Voix Editions, with over 50 drawings by the Swiss artist Gilgian Gelzer, and is available through Printed Matter. Excerpts from this work-in-progress appear in First Intensity (#12, Spring 1999) and Pierogi Press (#9, Fall 2002). His translation of the faux-Rimbaud "The Spiritual Hunt" ("La chasse spirituelle") appears in First Intensity #15 (Fall 2000). Other work includes a collaboration with the French artist Jean-Marc Scanreigh on the artist's books Lost in Space (Editions du Paon-Saint-André, Paris, 2001) and United States (Editions de l’Oiseau qui dit tout, Brussels, 2002), both of which are available through Chapitre.com. United States has also been re-done as a series of 50 woodblock and silkscreen prints by Scanreigh. Academic publications include articles in Comparative Literature ("Evolution in Context: `Deep Time,' Archaeology and the Post-Romantic Paradigm," Fall 1996) and The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (“Warlords of Atlantis: Chasing the Demon of Analogy in the America(s) of Lawrence, Artaud and Olson," 28.2-3, June-September 2001). SOURCE: http://216.239.39.104/u/nypl?q=cache:kPJrKvurhMUJ:www.nypl.org/press/bernwinner02.html+nina+bernstein&hl=en AND http://www.pangaeapress.com/home.htm |
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