Library acquires Pinter archive

Pinter has written 29 plays including The Birthday Party and Betrayal

The archive of Britain's leading writer and playwright, Harold Pinter, has been acquired by the British Library.

It includes more than 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs and emails from the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Literature.

The British Library said it offered an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars of Pinter's work.

The entire collection, including items that have been on loan to the Library since 1993, was purchased for £1.1m.

It was bought thanks to a grant of £216,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), existing British Library funds, and donations from other private trusts and donors.

'Wonderful collection'

Pinter, 77, is an influential playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist. He has written 29 plays, 21 screenplays - including The French Lieutenant's Woman - and has directed 27 theatre productions.

He is also the recipient of the Shakespeare Prize, the European Prize for Literature, the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement.

Highlights of the archive include an affectionate run of letters from Samuel Beckett, letters and hand-written manuscripts revealing Pinter's close collaboration with director Joseph Losey, and an exchange of letters with poet Philip Larkin.

The papers - together with material relating to the award of the Nobel Prize, cuttings books, and photographs - form one of the most significant post-War literary archives.

"It is thrilling for the British Library to have acquired the archive of our greatest living playwright," said Jamie Andrews, head of modern literary manuscripts.

"This is a wonderful collection that sheds new light on each stage of Harold Pinter's unparalleled career over the past 50 years.

"We look forward to making the material accessible to researchers, and to playing our part in celebrating his life and work."

The archive is to be catalogued and will be completed at the end of 2008.

A small temporary display, His Own Domain: Harold Pinter, A Life in Theatre, will run at the British Library, in London, from 11 January to 13 April.

Hirst's Diamond Skull Sells at Auction

A diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst sold on Thursday for 100 million dollars (75 million euros), a record price for work sold by a living artist, a London gallery announced.

The work, entitled "For the Love of God," is a skull cast in platinum and encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. Carbon dating has shown that the original skull on which Hirst's work is modelled dates to the 18th century.

Hirst remains best known for earlier conceptual works in which creatures including a shark and a cow were pickled in formaldehyde inside glass tanks.

The diamond-encrusted skull was sold to an group of anonymous investors, a spokeswoman for the White Cube gallery in London, where it has been on display from the beginning of the summer, told AFP.

Death is one of the central themes in works completed by Hirst, 41, who once said that the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were like a work of art, but later apologised.

Hirst also holds the record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist at auction -- his "Lullaby Spring," a three-metre (10-foot) wide steel cabinet containing 6,136 hand-crafted and individually-painted pills, sold for 19.2 million dollars in June.

Stumbling on Happiness Wins Science Book Prize

Daniel Gilbert beat five other shortlisted titles

A scientific exploration of the various ways people attempt to make themselves happy has won the annual Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness had been tipped as the favourite to win the prestigious £10,000 award.

It beat five other titles including Henry Nicholl's Lonesome George, an account of the last known individual of a subspecies of Galapagos tortoise.

Each runner up received £1,000 at a ceremony at the Society's headquarters.

Professor Colin Pillinger, from the Open University in Milton Keynes, chaired the judging panel. He said that all of the books had been "excellent" and deciding on first prize had been "extremely difficult".

Read the full shortlist for the 2007 general prize

Discussing the winner he said: "Daniel Gilbert's voice provides a witty companion throughout this exploration of the science behind the pursuit of happiness.

"He uses cognitive science and psychology to provide intriguing insights into human nature, helping us to understand why we make the decisions we do."

Perhaps all children need is the confidence to approach a subject with enthusiasm and an open mind Richard Hammond, junior prize winner

Gilbert himself was thrilled to take the book prize. "I'm absolutely delighted to receive this tremendous honour from the world's oldest learned society," said the Harvard University psychology professor.

"There are very few countries (including my own - the US) where a somewhat cheeky book about happiness could win a science prize - but the British invented intellectual humour and have always understood that enlightenment and entertainment are natural friends. So God bless the empire!"

Tour de force

Now in its 19th year, the award was known as the Rhone-Poulenc Prize from 1990 to 1999. Until this year, it went by the name of the Aventis Prize but now bears the name of the Royal Society.

The author introduces readers to the world of physics

There are two categories: the junior prize, which is given to the best book written for under-14s, and the general prize, for the best book written for a more general readership.

This year's junior prize was won by BBC Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond for his book Can You Feel the Force? published by Dorling Kindersley (DK). It explores the world of physics.

Read the full shortlist for the 2007 junior prize

Eleanor Updale, children's writer and chair of the junior judging panel, said it was an "instantly appealing book".

"With clear illustrations, practical experiments, and well-paced text, it makes an interest in science look like fun," she said.

Reacting to his win, Richard Hammond, who also presents the science series Brainiac on UK TV, said: "I was immediately captivated when the team at Dorling Kindersley approached me about making a book to try to bring physics to life.

"Perhaps all children need is the confidence to approach a subject with enthusiasm and an open mind. The DK team gave them just that and winning this award is recognition for a group of very talented people."

The general prize is often referred to as the "Booker prize for science writing", although the science prize winner often outsells its better-known counterpart.

Past winners have included Bill Bryson, Stephen Hawking and Chris McManus.

The judges were Colin Pillinger; Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio; Louisa Bolch, commissioning editor for science on Channel 4; Emily Holmes, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the University of Oxford; and Christine McGourty, science correspondent for BBC News.

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The full shortlist for the 2007 Royal Society Prize for Science Books:

Homo Britannicus, by Chris Stringer (Penguin Allen Lane)
The book tells the epic story of the human colonisation of Britain, from our very first footsteps to the present day. Drawing on all the latest evidence and techniques of investigation, Chris Stringer describes times when Britain was so tropical that humans lived alongside hippos and sabre tooth tigers; and times so cold they shared the land with reindeer and mammoth; and times colder still when humans were forced to flee altogether.

In Search of Memory, by Eric R Kandel (WW Norton & Co)
Nobel laureate Eric R Kandel charts the intellectual history of the emerging biology of the mind, and sheds light on how behavioural psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and molecular biology have converged into a powerful new science. These efforts, he says, provide insights into normal mental functioning and disease, and simultaneously open pathways to more effective treatments.

Lonesome George, by Henry Nicholls (Macmillan)
Lonesome George is a 1.5m-long, 90kg tortoise aged between 60 and 200, and it is thought he is the sole survivor of his sub-species. Scientific ingenuity may conjure up a way of reproducing him, and resurrecting his species. Henry Nicholls details the efforts of conservationists to preserve the Galapagos' unique biodiversity and illustrates how their experiences and discoveries are echoed worldwide. He explores the controversies raging over which mates are most appropriate for George and the risks of releasing crossbreed offspring into the wild.

One in Three, by Adam Wishart (Profile Books)
When his father was diagnosed with cancer, Adam Wishart couldn't find any book that answered his questions: what was the disease, how did it take hold and what did it mean? What is it about cancer's biology that means it has not been eradicated? How close are we, really, to a cure? There was no such book. So he wrote it. One in Three interweaves two powerful stories: that of Adam and his father; and of the 200-year search for a cure.

The Rough Guide to Climate Change, by Robert Henson (Rough Guides)
Robert Henson has written this guide to a pressing issue facing the world. The guide looks at visible symptoms of change on a warming planet, how climate change works, the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate reveal about our past, present, and future. It looks at the sceptics' grounds for disagreement, global warming in the media and what governments and scientists are doing to try to solve the problem.

Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert (Harper Press)
Psychologist Daniel Gilbert reveals how and why the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy. The drive for happiness is one of the most instinctive and fundamental human impulses. In this revealing and witty investigation, psychologist Daniel Gilbert uses scientific research, philosophy and real-life case studies to illustrate how our basic drive to satisfy our desires can not only be misguided, but also intrinsically linked to some long-standing and contentious questions about human nature.

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The full shortlist for the 2007 Royal Society Junior Prize for Science Books:

Can You Feel the Force?, by Richard Hammond (Dorling Kindersley)
The BBC Top Gear presenter takes the reader on an introductory tour of the physical forces in the universe. The book uses quizzes, brainteasers and home experiments to cover all areas of physics, answering questions such as why a cold ball bounces higher than a warm one and why a person's stomach goes up when a roller coast plummets straight down.

How Nearly Everything Was Invented by the Brainwaves, by Ralph Lazar, Jilly MacLeod, Lisa Swerling (Dorling Kindersley)
The book is introduced by a group of pint-sized pals known as the Brainwaves who set out on a journey to discover the story behind 300 key inventions such as the light bulb, train and wheel. The friends uncover the who, what, when, where and why of each invention and how they have transformed the way we live today.

It's True! Space Turns You into Spaghetti, by Heather Catchpole, Vanessa Woods (Allen & Unwin)
The sixteenth book in this non-fiction series is packed with quirky facts about life in space, including anecdotes from previous space missions as well as further information about the solar system and beyond.

KFK Natural Disasters, by Andrew Langley (Kingfisher)
Part of the Kingfisher Knowledge series, the book details some of the most catastrophic events that have shook and shocked the world. It examines why disasters like tsunamis and wild fires occur and looks at new technologies which are trying to predict and prevent similar disasters occurring.

My Body Book, by Brita Granstrom, Mick Manning (Franklin Watts)
A colourful book aimed at younger children, it uses multi-coloured illustrations and half-page flaps to reveal the inner workings of the human body.

Science Investigations: Electricity by John Farndon (Wayland)
A practical book that answers common questions about electricity such as what it is, how it is measured and why it can make some objects glow. The book also provides questions for readers to investigate further on their own and links to useful websites as well as glossary, index and a list of further reading.

Rare Pooh drawings up for auction

The Tigger drawing was never included in the 1958 volume

A pair of Winnie the Pooh drawings are expected to fetch up to £30,000 each when they go on sale at a London auction house later this month.

The coloured crayon drawings by Ernest H Shepard - Tiggers Don't Like Honey and Pooh Visiting in Owl's Parlour - will be auctioned at Bonhams on 22 May.

Tiggers Don't Like Honey was drawn for the 1958 edition of AA Milne's The World of Pooh, but never published.

The Owl illustration was published in Methuen's 1929 Winnie the Pooh.

Shepard's sketches were exhibited at London's V&A Museum in 1969

Both drawings are being sold by the same private collector.

Bonhams' Modern Pictures and Illustrations sale also includes four studies by Pooh illustrator Shepard for the AA Milne poem Missing.

The sketches, which previously belonged to the artist's daughter-in-law before entering a private collection, are estimated to fetch up to £6,000.

Other classic children's illustrations to be auctioned include images of Captain Pugwash, Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat and a scene from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.

Crime Novelist Michael Dibdin dies in the U.S.

Michael Dibdin, aged 60, known for his Italian detective Aurelio Zen, has died. He is survived by third wife, Katherine Beck, a daughter from each of his first two marriages and three stepchildren.

Dibdin was passionate about crime fiction. His first novel was an affectionate parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories, which took the form of a confessional manuscript by the detective's long-suffering sidekick, Dr Watson. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story was published in 1978.

It was not the only time Dibdin paid tribute to his predecessors. The Dying Of The Light, published in 1993, was an homage to Agatha Christie's country hotel murder mysteries.

But it was the escapades of Inspector Aurelio Zen that brought the author his greatest fame.

His first Zen novel, Ratking, was inspired by four years spent teaching English in Italy. It won the Gold Dagger award for crime fiction in 1988.

Dibdin's family moved extensively around the UK while he was a child.

He went to school in Northern Ireland and later studied English Literature at Sussex University before travelling to Canada to take a master's degree at the University of Edmonton.

After the success of Ratking, he wrote a further 10 novels starring the world-weary detective, including his most recently-completed story, End Games, which will be published posthumously.

The series often paints an unflattering portrait of modern Italy, as Zen is confronted with political cover-ups, petty bureaucracy and Mafia murders.

The books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, although Dibdin admitted they did not sell well in Italy.

"Italians take a very elitist approach to anything that could be labelled as a genre or crime fiction or mysteries," he told January magazine in 1999.

"There's only one publisher that does them and in fact they're sold at newsagents rather than in book shops. But it's the same thing for anyone. That's just the way it is over there."

The author continued to write novels outside the Zen series, winning accolades for 1991's Dirty Tricks, a story of greed and betrayal in Thatcherite Britain.

He also reviewed regularly for The Independent newspaper, and edited two collections of crime fiction in the 1990s.

Dibdin met third wife Beck, herself a mystery writer who uses the pen name KK Beck, at a writers' conference in Spain in 1993.

Having spent much of his writing career in Oxford, he moved to live with her in Seattle, Washington - which provided the setting for his first American-based novel, Dark Spectre in 1995.

He died in the US on 30 March after a short illness.

Beatles George Harrison's Handwritten Lyrics Bring $300,000

George Harrison's lyrics to While My Guitar Gently Weeps Enlarge Image

George Harrison's handwritten lyrics to the Beatles song While My Guitar Gently Weeps have fetched $300,000 (£152,552) in a US memorabilia auction.

The lyrics comprise the earliest known version of the song and contain lines not included in the recorded version featured on the White Album in 1968.

The working draft features Harrison's handwritten corrections.

Other items in the sale in Scottsdale, Arizona, included a picture of a bird drawn by John Lennon when he was 11.

The picture sold for more than $30,000 (£15,256).

Omitted lines

The Beatles first recorded While My Guitar Gently Weeps on July 25 1968, using the lyrics on the auctioned sheet of paper.

The lines omitted from the final version read:

I look from the wings at the play you are staging
While my guitar gently weeps
As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps

The reverse of the page features the lyrics to Hey Jude in the hand of Beatles road manager Mal Evans.

Cooper Auctions founder Louise Cooper described the auction as "a once in 20 or 30 years experience".

Dreamgirls, Babel Grabbed Golden Globes

Babel, a sprawling film about human connections in the global village, won the Golden Globe for best motion picture, drama in Los Angeles Jan. 15 reports Eric Harrison in the Houston Chronicle

Dreamgirls and Helen Mirren also were big winners at the event held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson won supporting acting awards for their work in Dreamgirls, which also won for best motion picture, musical or comedy.

Mirren won awards both for best actress in a drama and in a television mini-series or movie.

In accepting the award for The Queen, in which she played England's Queen Elizabeth reacting to the death of Princess Diana, Mirren said, "I just tried to make her as truthful to herself as possible."

Mirren also won for best actress in a television miniseries or movie for HBO's Elizabeth I. She also was nominated in the same category for her lead role in Prime Suspect: The Final Act for PBS.

Forest Whitaker won the best acting award for a film drama for The Last King of Scotland, a drama about the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. He and Mirren have won the lion's share of critic's awards and are considered favorites to win Oscars.

Hudson took the first award of the evening for playing Effie, a singer who gets pushed from the limelight because of her looks.

The American Idol contestant dedicated her award to Florence Ballard, the real-life singer with the Supremes on whom her character was based and whom Hudson said "never got a fair chance ... You will never be forgotten."

Growing weepy as she accepted the award, Hudson said, "Am I turning into Effie up here?" She said the award was meaningful because it made her feel "like a part of this community and it makes me feel like an actress. You do not understand how good that feels to say."

Other winners included Martin Scorsese, who won best director for his high-energy crime drama, The Departed.

"I wanted to make a picture in the old Warner Bros. tradition of gangster pictures," Scorsese said.

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen won a best actor in a musical or comedy for his Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

The award for best foreign language film — a particularly strong category this year — went to Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood's World War II drama told from the Japanese perspective.

"Not many people thought this was anything when it was on paper," Eastwood said in accepting the award. In an unusual move, Eastwood released two movies about the battle of Iwo Jima last year.

The other one, Flags of Our Fathers earned a mixed critical reception but the much-better received Letters From Iwo Jima revived the possibility of Eastwood winning a best-picture Oscar. He received Golden Globe nominations for directing both films.

In the new Golden Globes category of best animated film, the winner was Cars, a comedy with talking automobiles, from Disney-Pixar.

In TV, Ugly Betty won the award for best television musical or comedy and its star, America Ferrera, won for best actress in a television musical or comedy.

Kyra Sedgwick won best actress in a television drama for TNT's The Closer while the award for best actor went to Hugh Laurie, the star of House on FOX.

Alec Baldwin won the award for best actor in a television musical or comedy for NBC's 30 Rock.

Tom Hanks presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement to Warren Beatty, who won Golden Globe recognition as most promising newcomer 45 years ago.

Beatty, who hasn't directed a movie in nine years and hasn't acted in one since 2001, drew laughs for noting that Eastwood made two movies simultaneously last year, two years after winning the Oscar for best picture (for Million Dollar Baby) and then asking: "How do you think that makes me feel?"

"Of course I'm going to make another movie," Beatty added.

Considering the awards are determined by a mere 90 people — the Hollywood correspondents of foreign publications — the Golden Globes has achieved an extraordinarily high profile.

Its popular televised awards ceremony attracts top stars, partly because it is an effective marketing tool and partly because the freewheeling banquet is a fun party.

By contrast, the Motion Picture Association of America, which gives out the Oscars, is comprised of 5,800 voting members.

Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 23. Awards will be presented Feb. 25.

So here's the list:

Film

Drama: Babel

Actor, drama: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Actress, drama: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Musical or comedy: Dreamgirls

Actor, musical or comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Actress, musical or comedy: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Supporting actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Supporting actor: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

Movie screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen

Original score: Alexandre Desplat, The Painted Veil

Original song: Prince, The Song of the Heart from Happy Feet

Animated film: Cars

Foreign language: Letters From Iwo Jima (Japan, United States)

Cecil B. DeMille Award: Warren Beatty

Television

Drama: Grey's Anatomy, ABC

Supporting actress, musical or comedy: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty

Actress, drama: Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Actor, drama: Hugh Laurie, House

Series, musical or comedy: Ugly Betty, ABC

Actor, musical or comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Miniseries or movie: Elizabeth I, HBO

Actress, miniseries or movie: Helen Mirren, Elizabeth I

Actor, miniseries or movie: Bill Nighy, Gideon's Daughter

Supporting actress, series, miniseries or movie: Emily Blunt, Gideon's Daughter

Supporting actor, series, miniseries or movie: Jeremy Irons, Elizabeth I

Is the lost Da Vinci hidden behind the wall?

According to Ariel David, writing for the Associated Press, a real-life Da Vinci mystery, complete with tantalizing clues and sharp art sleuths, may soon be solved, as researchers resume the search for a lost Leonardo masterpiece believed to be hidden within a wall in a Florence palace.

Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli and officials in the Tuscan city announced this week they had given approval for renewed exploration in the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of power for various Florence rulers, including the Medici family in the 16th century. There, some researchers believe, a cavity in a wall may have preserved Leonardo's unfinished painted mural of the "Battle of Anghiari" for more than four centuries.

"We took this decision to verify conclusively if the cavity exists and if there are traces of the fresco," Rutelli said during a visit in Florence.

The search for the Renaissance masterpiece began about 30 years ago, when the art researcher Maurizio Seracini noticed a cryptic message painted on one of the frescoes decorating the "Hall of the 500."

"Cerca, trova" — "seek and you shall find" — said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley," one of the military scenes painted by the 16th-century artist Giorgio Vasari.

Between 2002 and 2003, radar and X-ray scans allowed Seracini and his team to find a cavity behind the fresco that is the right size to cocoon Leonardo's work, which was long thought to have been destroyed when Vasari renovated the hall in the mid-16th century.

Shortly after the initial discovery, Seracini's decades-long quest came to a standstill when authorities refused to renew his survey permit.

"We are not talking about a search like any other," Seracini told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "We are searching for Leonardo's greatest masterpiece, considered as such also by his contemporaries."

Leonardo began working on the Battle of Anghiari in 1505, when he was 53. He worked alongside fellow artist and rival Michelangelo, who had been commissioned to decorate the opposite wall of the council hall, which was to have scenes of the Florentine republic's military triumphs.

The pairing of two great artists created ripples of excitement in art-loving Florence, but both men soon left for other cities.

Michelangelo never went beyond the preparatory work for his Battle of Cascina, but Leonardo did eventually paint his battle's centerpiece — a violent clash of horses and men called the Fight for the Flag, which is known today through Leonardo's preparatory studies and copies made by other artists.

Some chroniclers of the time said Da Vinci had experimented with unstable paints that had rapidly degraded, leaving the painting irreparably damaged.

But Seracini said documents show that at least the centerpiece was admired and copied for decades, until Vasari began his work at Palazzo Vecchio. Vasari himself, who wrote biographies of several artists including Leonardo, would have been loath to destroy Leonardo's work. He is known to have salvaged other art by leaving works cocooned between walls when he made renovations, the researcher said.

Seracini, whose research on another Leonardo painting is quoted in Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, is an engineer who has spent the last three decades conducting scientific investigations on art treasures.

Florence city officials said no date has been set for the new investigation because details still needed approval.

While the new research will be supervised by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, one of Italy's top restoration institutes, Seracini will be on the team, said Alessandra Garzanti, a city spokeswoman.

"He brought this forward until now, it would be stupid to leave him out," she said.

Once the work starts, researchers would need a year and a half to give a definitive answer on whether Leonardo's masterpiece is there, Seracini said.

The work would include documentary research to determine which chemicals Leonardo used to paint the fresco, and subsequent scans to see if those pigments are present behind the wall, he said.

Seracini declined to reveal how the scans would work, saying the method was still experimental. However, he said the analysis would not involve probes or other instruments that would damage the overlying Vasari fresco.

Hey, Norman Rockwell did it and was found out recently. But his reason was for divorce. So common!

JWilbooks

Purpose Prize Nominations Close on January 31, 2007

The time for making nominations for the Purpose Prize is drawing to a close. The deadline date is January 31, 2007. The Purpose Prize is a relatively new award which focuses on the innovative achievements of people 60 years old or older. There are five awards of $100,000 and ten awards of $10,000 to people who meet the age criteria who are taking on society’s biggest challenges.


To be eligible for The Purpose Prize, the nominee must be at least 60 years old by the deadline of January 31, 2007, a U.S. resident which can include residents of U.S. territories, and currently working in a leadership capacity in a public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit organization or institution to address a major social problem.

Elected officials are not eligible for the Prize. While individuals working
in faith-based service organizations that have a broader social mission are eligible, the
project cannot be strictly religious or sectarian--in that it is confined exclusively to
individuals within a denomination or for the sole purpose of expanding the religious
mission of the denomination or faith.

Due to resource limitations of The Purpose Prize program staff, they are unable to conduct
in-person interviews of individuals whose work is primarily outside the United States. Only
candidates whose work can be observed within the continental U.S., Alaska, or Hawaii will
be considered.


Applicants will be evaluated on the following criteria:

"* Is the person an outstanding social innovator who is working creatively and in a
transformative capacity to spearhead significant change?
* How important is the issue the person is addressing? How much of an impact has his
or her work had on the issue? Is the work already effecting, or does it have the potential
to effect, systemic change? To go to scale? Is it likely to be sustainable?
* Has the person initiated important innovations (in a new or ongoing organization) in
the past several years, demonstrating creativity and leadership throughout and promising
more to come?
* What does the person plan to do in the next five years and how would recognition,
technical support, and the financial benefits of the award help to advance this work?
* Will the person be a compelling role model and articulate spokesperson whose own
personal story serves to inspire others not only to think differently about the second
half of life, but also to take on leadership roles and perform significant service in this
phase? Is the person a highly ethical individual? "

The website for the Purpose Prize, with guidelines and submission form, is here:
http://www.leadwithexperience.org/prize/about/aboutcivicventures.cfm

Do you know someone who could qualify for this prize?

JWilbooks