Winner of Kansas Book Award, will kick off Kansas Book Festival

Mark your calendars for a chance to hear from the talented Rebekah Taussig, author of the memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. Taussig will come to Washburn University this September as the 2021 winner of the prestigious Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award, awarded annually by the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection at Washburn. Her presentation on September 17 at 4 PM will kick-off the Kansas Book Festival, which continues all day on September 18, from 9 AM to 4 PM. In an honest and wry collection of essays, Taussig describes how she overcame the stereotypes that went with growing up paralyzed. Today, she has a PhD from the University of Kansas in Creative Nonfiction Writing and Disability Studies, and she teaches high school students in Kansas City, serving as an important advocate for disabled people across the nation. This presentation, co-sponsored by the Kansas Book Festival, is free and open to the public.