Join your colleagues for a brief talk by novelist and award winning cartoonist, Doug Marlette. Mr. Marlette will talk about the value of libraries to his work and pleasure and will be signing an original, official, copyrighted cartoon, suitable for framing, of the conference for attendees.

Born in Greensboro, NC and raised in NC, Mississippi, and Florida, Doug Marlette graduated from Florida State University and began drawing cartoons for The Charlotte Observer in 1972. He joined the Atlanta Journal/Constitution in 1987, New York Newsday in 1989 and the Tallahassee Democrat in 2002. His editorial cartoons and his comic strip Kudzu are syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide.

He has won major awards for editorial cartooning including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. He has received the National Headliners Award for Consistently Outstanding Editorial Cartoons three times, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award twice, and First Prize in the John Fischetti Memorial Cartoon Competition twice. He has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.

His work has appeared in Esquire, Newsweek, Time, The New Republic, and The Paris Review and has been collected in 17 unique volumes. A musical adaptation of Kudzu, in collaboration with the Red Clay Ramblers, was produced at Duke University and Ford’s Theatre in Washington in 2000.

His first novel, The Bridge, was published by Harper Collins and voted Best Book of the Year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association in 2002. He was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at the UNC School of Journalism and Communication in 2001 and was inducted into the Journalism Hall of Fame in 2002. He, his wife Melinda and son Jackson live in Hillsborough, NC.