<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">From: Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book Club</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:29.7px;font-family:Georgia;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Nancy Pearl has been named winner of the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. </strong>This $10,000 honor, conferred annually by the National Book Foundation, recognizes “an individual or organization for a lifetime of achievement in expanding the audience for books and reading.”</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:29.7px;font-family:Georgia;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Pearl worked for decades in public library systems in Detroit, Tulsa and Seattle, where she served as executive director of the Washington Center for the Book. There she founded a program called “If All Seattle Read the Same Book,” which has inspired the creation of One Book, One City programs across the world. In 2011, Library Journal named her Librarian of the Year.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:29.7px;font-family:Georgia;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A frequent voice on NPR and an engaging literary critic, Pearl is also the author of several popular reading guides, such as “Book Lust,” and a novel called “George & Lizzie” (</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://s2.washingtonpost.com/34a0423/613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a/5ad3ab2fade4e264175aa2f8/26/74/613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,102,153);text-decoration-line:none"><strong>review</strong></a></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)">). Last fall, she and Jeff Schwager published “The Writer’s Library,” a collection of interviews with “the authors you love on the books that changed their lives.” </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:29.7px;font-family:Georgia;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5ad3ab2fade4e264175aa2f8&s=613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a&linknum=5&linktot=74">https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5ad3ab2fade4e264175aa2f8&s=613b67b89d2fda2627506f0a&linknum=5&linktot=74</a></span><br></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:29.7px;font-family:Georgia;margin:0px 0px 24px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">See Nancy Pearl's action figure - </span><a href="https://mcphee.com/pages/history-of-the-librarian-action-figure" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The History of the Librarian Action Figure and Nancy Pearl – Archie McPhee</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>