Coffee House Press and The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library are pleased to announce that Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008), will be Sun Ray Library’s writer-in-residence this Spring. Kao Kalia Yang is a member of the Hmong ethnic minority. Her memoir, The Latehomecomer,…
Read MoreFitzgerald’s Short Stories Featured in New Program/Discussion Series “Fitzgerald loved, hated, and was obsessed by St. Paul… [his] short stories place Fitzgerald’s ambitions and gifts in a cultural context too often ignored and forgotten.” — author Charles Baxter SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA – October 6, 2014 – FitzFirst@Four, a monthly series of presentations and discussions on F.…
Read MoreMinnesota’s literary community lost a seminal leader with the recent death of Mary Ida Thomson, one of the founders of the Minnesota Book Awards and a Trustee Emerita of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. A Matching Gift Memorial grant is announced by The Katherine B. Andersen Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation.…
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The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library has been awarded a challenge grant of up to $100,000 by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, to be applied to gifts and pledges for its current capital campaign, “A New Legacy of Learning.” SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA, June 4, 2014 — The Richard M. Schulze Foundation has…
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The weather outside was unseasonably cold and gray, but inside Saint Paul Public Library’s Rondo Library it was nothing but warm smiles and sunshine as dozens gathered on October 20, 2013 to celebrate the installation of “Alice’s Storyteller Bench.”
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