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Mountain West Center for Regional Studies
0735 Old Main Hill
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0735  
phone:  435.797.3630
fax: 435.797.3899
email:  mwc@cc.usu.edu   

This award was created by the Western Literature Association in order to honor an outstanding book-length study of western American literature.

To Qualify Books Must: 
Be published in the year of the award.  Be an outstanding, single-author, book-length study on the literature and culture of Western American Literature.

To Nominate a Book:
Send a statement of support and full publication information by 20 May 2009 to:

Robert Thacker
Executive Secretary, Western Literature Association Canadian Studies Program
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
email: rthacker@stlawu.edu

ABOUT THOMAS J. LYON:
Born in Binghamton, New York, and educated at Utah State University, Thomas Jefferson Lyon is known to many as a respected writer, editor, literary scholar, and mentor. He has served as the Western Literature Association's president during 1972, edited the journal of Western American Literature from 1974 to 1997, and received the Distinguished Achievement Award in 1987 and the Deb and Edith Wylder Award in 1996.

Lyon's own scholarship has done much to enrich and advance the study of western American literature. His works include Frank Waters, A Literary History of the American West (senior editor), This Incomperable Lande (editor), Great and Peculiar Beauty (coeditor with Terry Tempest Williams), Updating the Literary West (editor-in-chief), and On Nature's Terms (coeditor with Peter Stine). His work also appears in The Oxford History of the American West, Reading the West and journals such as Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and Wild Earth.