Mary Peace Finley
Award-winning author of books for young people
© Mary Peace Finley 2012
COLORADO BOOK AWARD WINNER
PRESS RELEASE
13th Annual Colorado Book Award Winners Announced at Awards
Gala November 18, 2004
Denver-The Colorado Center for the Book (CCFTB), the state
affiliate of the Library of Congress, and a program of the Colorado
Endowment for the Humanities, announced the winners for the 13th
annual Colorado Book Awards in a gala ceremony on Thursday,
November 18, 2004, at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space
Museum, attended by more than 425 people. Governor Owens
issued a proclamation calling the day "Colorado Book Awards Day"
and commending the CCFTB and the Colorado authors. The keynote
speaker was Sir Harold Evans. Harold Evans spoke about his latest book, They Made
America-From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. Evans
was publisher of Random House and editor of the London Sunday Times and the Times.
The awards are given annually to the Colorado authors of the best books published in the
preceding year judged by the Colorado book community. The purpose of the awards is to
champion all Colorado authors and to specially honor the winners and to promote their titles
throughout Colorado and the nation. Forty-six finalists had been named, and most attended
the event.
Winners were announced in fourteen categories.
