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Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok
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Mira Bartok

Mira Bartók is a Chicago-born artist and writer and the author of twenty-eight books for children. Her writing has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and has been noted in The Best American Essays series. She lives in Western Massachusetts where she runs Mira’s List (http://www.miraslist.blogspot.com), a blog that helps artists find funding and residencies all over the world. The Memory Palace is Mira’s first book for adults. You can find her at: www.thememorypalace.com.

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Mass. writer with brain injury wins national award
Boston Globe, March 24, 2012
...NEW SALEM, Mass.Despite living with a brain injury that has left Mira Bartok with memory loss, the New Salem author has won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, "The Memory Palace: A Memoir."Bartok said she was completely...
National Book Critics Circle awards help bookworms wade through year's new titles
St. Petersburg Times, March 17, 2012
...Canyon Press) Criticism: Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf Press) Autobiography: Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace: A Memoir (Free Press) Biography: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American...
Pearlman wins fiction prize with collection
Columbus Dispatch, March 10, 2012
...prize for Space, in Chains, her unusual approach to reflecting on the pros and cons of ordinary life. Mira Bartok’s The Memory Palace, which blends her mother’s journals with her own reflections on her mother’s mental illness, won for...
Pearlman wins book critics fiction prize
Boston Globe, March 10, 2012
...British sympathizers in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War. And Western Massachusetts resident and children's book author Mira Bartok was honored in the biography category for her memoir "Memory Palace'' about her schizophrenic mother. The NBCC also...
New Salem writer and artist Mira Bartok wins National Book Critics Circle Award
MassLive, March 9, 2012
...Bartok is collaborating with Jane Yolen on a young adult novel. Mira Bartok just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Just before lunch Thursday, one of Mira Bartok’s editors told her she should be prepared to win the...
National Book Critics Announce Annual Awards
Huffington Post, March 9, 2012
...the poetry award went to Laura Kasischke's "Space, in Chains." The autobiography prize was given to Mira Bartok for "The Memory Palace: A Memoir," and Geoff Dyer's "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews" won for...
A Secret Service Tell-All; the National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners
The Atlantic Wire, March 9, 2012
...Maya Jasanoff Biography: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis Autobiography: The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok Criticism: Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer Poetry: Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke [Publishers...
Critics circle finalists offer glimpse of 2011's best
Austin American Statesman, February 25, 2012
...memoir as "a gorgeously engrossing, affecting, sweetly funny, and mind-opening love story of crisis, determination, creativity and repair." Mira Bartok, "The Memory Palace." Massachusetts writer Bartok also deals with illness in her memoir, but she...
Companion Briefs Feb. 10
Keene Sentinel, February 10, 2012
...The Adult Book Discussion Group meets Monday evening at 7 p.m. to discuss “The Memory Palace” by Mira Bartok. Extra copies of both books are available at the desk. Winter storytimes continue at Jaffrey Public Library JAFFREY — The Jaffrey Public...
Awards can shorten reading list
Toledoblade.com, February 5, 2012
...Essays. Autobiography: Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing; Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America; Luis J. Rodriguez, It...
Companion Briefs Feb. 3
Keene Sentinel, February 4, 2012
...Adult Book Discussion Group meets Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. to discuss “The Memory Palace” by Mira Bartok. Extra copies of both books are available at the desk. Winter storytimes continue at Jaffrey Public Library JAFFREY — The Jaffrey Public...
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Jan. 30
Swampscott Patch, January 30, 2012
...  The Next Generation Book Club meets at 7 pm at the library to discuss  The Memory Palace  by Mira Bartok...
Mira Bartok to read from memoir at Jewish Community Center
MassLive, January 28, 2012
...Mira Bartók is coming to the Springfield Jewish Community Center, where she will be reading from her "heartbreaking, exquisitely told" memoir, "The Memory Palace."...
UM Press, Graywolf Press books finalists for NBCC Awards.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2012
...Autobiography "One Hundred Names for Love," by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton) "The Memory Palace," by Mira Bartok (The Free Press) "Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America," by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Little, Brown) "It Calls You Back: An...