THIS
EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE.
The 2009
National Book Club Conference was held July 31-Aug. 2 at
the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.
The mission of the
National Book Club Conference, founded by Curtis
Bunn, is to create the
world's largest book-club meeting once a year, to
promote the value of reading and formulating book clubs
among adults and in the nation's public school systems
for the purposes of advancing literacy, broadening
youths' minds and knowledge through reading and
dialogue.
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The Circle of Color Book Club (COCBC)
Winners of the 2009 NBCC Essay Contest: Why My Book Club
is Important to me (Read
the winning Essay)
(l to r) Margaret Bullocks-Matory, Troy Johnson
(Founder, AALBC.com), Yvonne Steel, and Anne Lovelady
J. California Cooper reads from a work in progress: God
Does Not Shoot Dice. The reading took place at the 2009
National Book Club Conference in Atlanta, GA on July 31,
2009.