Emeritus University Professor of English Neil Nakadate named 2015 Iowa Author by Des Moines Public Library Foundation

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Emeritus University Professor of English Neil Nakadate has been named a 2015 Iowa Author by the Des Moines Public Library Foundation, and he will be recognized at the Iowa Author Awards Dinner on October 27, 2015.  Professor Nakadate’s most recent book is Looking After Minidoka:  An American Memoir(Indiana, 2013).  Other Iowa State English Department-related writers who have received this award include Jane Smiley, Mary Swander, Debra Marquart, and Wini Moranville.