NAMES in the NEWS

CALDARERA NAMED

LSAE DIRECTOR

KIMBERLY CALDARERA, sales manager of Isle of Capri was installed as a director of The Louisiana Society of Association Executives.

The Louisiana Society of Association Executives is a statewide association comprised of chief executive officers and association professionals.

LEJEUNE WINS

LITERARY AWARD

McNeese State University Professor of English KEAGAN LEJEUNE has won the Louisiana Library Association’s 2017 Louisiana Literary Award for his book, “Legendary Louisiana Outlaws: The Villains and Heroes of Folk Justice.”

Published by the Louisiana State University Press, LeJeune’s book follows Louisiana outlaws from Bonnie and Clyde to largely forgotten figures like Leather Britches Smith. Bringing together both fact and folklore, LeJeune breaks down how Louisiana’s history and legal climate created these fugitives. The book also considers popular reactions to their lives and crimes — how folk heroes rose, survived and thrived and how the communities that once supported and harbored these fugitives could turn against them.

In selecting LeJeune’s work, The Louisiana Literary Award Committee noted that the book “has the rare merit of being scholarly yet accessible to the general reader.”

LeJeune is past president of the Louisiana Folklore Society and editor of its journal, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. He has collected stories about outlaws and Louisiana folklore for more than 15 years. His book also won the 2016 Brian McConnell Book Award.

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