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Stacy Schiff Receives the 35th Annual Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published December 3, 2019 at 2:04 PM CST
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Our guest is the widely acclaimed writer and historian Stacy Schiff, who is the winner of the 2019 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. This award is given each year by the Tulsa Library Trust and Tulsa City-County Library. Schiff's bestselling nonfiction works include "The Witches: Salem, 1692," "Cleopatra: A Life," "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America," and "Saint-Exupéry: A Biography." You can meet Stacy Schiff at a free-to-the-public presentation on Saturday the 7th (starting at 10:30am) at the TCCL Central Library, near the corner of Fifth Street and Denver Avenue. (For more information, call 918.549.7323.)

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Rich Fisher
Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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