Professors’ book wins award

“A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France” by professors of English Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden has won this year’s August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Published by UW Press last fall, the book offers a charming account of village life in the Dordogne Valley. For more information, visit http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3437.htm.