Kirk Receives Booker Worthen Literary Prize for Winthrop Rockefeller Biography
August 06, 2024
August 06, 2024
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 6 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news:
Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at UA Little Rock, has received the 2024 Booker Worthen Literary Prize from the Central Arkansas Library System for his 2022 biography, "Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956."
"The Worthen Prize is a venerable Arkansas tradition, and I join a distinguished list of recipients . . .
Dr. John Kirk, George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at UA Little Rock, has received the 2024 Booker Worthen Literary Prize from the Central Arkansas Library System for his 2022 biography, "Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956."
"The Worthen Prize is a venerable Arkansas tradition, and I join a distinguished list of recipients . . .