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Book Discussion Features Oklahoma Scholar John Corbett
-Second in Four-Part Series Highlights Sundown by John Joseph Mathews

October 3, 2006

For Immediate Release

STILLWATER - Dr. John Corbett, Professor of History at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, is the program scholar for the discussion of Sundown by John Joseph Mathews. This is the second of a four-part series and will be held on Wednesday, October 4, at 6:30 p.m. in Stillwater Public Library room 309.

This fall’s Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma series presented by the Friends of the OSU Library and the Stillwater Public Library is titled “The Oklahoma Experience: Looking for Home.”

Corbett graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Ph.D. in history in 1982. He has been a humanities scholar for Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma since 1983. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society and chairs the Historic Sites Committee and the Indian Heritage Committee.

Corbett published Oklahoma Passage: The Telecourse Study Guide in 1991, and chapters in Early Military Forts and Posts in Oklahoma and Depression to Prosperity: Oklahoma’s Governors, 1929-1955. He has numerous articles in journals such as The Chronicles of Oklahoma, South Dakota History, Heritage of the Great Plains, and Government Publications Review. His awards include Muriel H. Wright Award for Excellence in the Preservation and Publication of Oklahoma History, the Albert S. Pike Literary Award and the Jefferson Davis Award and Medal.

According to the book's introduction, Sundown is “the only fictional work of a remarkable writer who made literary history in an admittedly narrow area of American literature.” It is considered semi-autobiographical in its reflection of author John Joseph Mathews’ own experiences coming of age in the early 1900s. “His evocation of the Osage countryside and of life on the old reservation…made Mathews a legend for his prose-poetry.”

The Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma series is funded by grants from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the Inasmuch Foundation and by individual donations. Providing books, theme materials and services is a cooperative project of the Oklahoma Library Association and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.

All programs are free and open to the public. Participants can register and obtain books from the Stillwater Public Library adult reference desk. For further information, phone the library at 372-3633.

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