Poet s home will lure writers to Portland area
An Oregon poet s legacy may help bolster the Portland region s literary luster.
A trustee of Carolyn Moore s estate recently endowed her family farm on Walnut Street in Tigard to Portland Community College. The donated estate, valued at $5.5 million, makes it the largest donation ever given to PCC. The home will be used as a writer s retreat, dubbed the Carolyn Moore Writers House. My aunt Carolyn had a love of learning, Erica Klassen, Moore s niece, said, so PCC is a great fit for her vision.
Included in the Writers House estate is a 2,500-square-foot log cabin on nine acres and a fund to support the retreat s operations for the next 20 years. Before her death in April 2019, Moore stipulated that she wanted the home to be donated and a residency program created in her honor. The gift caps off PCC s Campaign for Opportunity, which brought in $45 million in fundraising by the end of 2020.
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In a world rights agreement, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren sold a title to Metropolitan Books.
John Sterling, an editor-at-large at the Macmillan imprint, acquired
Persist from
Robert Barnett and
Daniel Martin at Williams & Connolly. The book, Holt said, will cover “six experiences and perspectives that have influenced Warren’s life and advocacy.” A portion of the author’s proceeds will go to charities in Massachusetts.
Persist is set for April 2021.
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to Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Alexa Pastor nabbed world rights from
Rachel Ekstrom and
Emily van Beek at Folio Jr./Folio Literary Management.
An adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s
Dog Man is in the works at Dreamworks Animation. The studio recently optioned the rights to the monstrously popular graphic novel series for kids, which Pilkey writes and illustrates.
Here are the details:
The first of Pilkey’s books, which follow the exploits of a canine-human hybrid who fights crime, was published by 2016 by Scholastic. The nine installments to date have nearly 40 million copies in print between them, and have all been #1 bestsellers.
Peter Hastings, who came to prominence as a writer on Steven Spielberg’s Nineties series like
Animaniacs and
Pinky and the Brain, is attached to direct the adaptation. The multi-Emmy-winning writer and producer joined Dreamworks in 2011, and has worked on its series