DATE: Feb. 8-June 15, 2006, with a public reception and remarks from curator Kathryn Beam at 8 p.m., Feb. 8.

Exhibit hours: 10 a.m.?5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-noon Saturday. Closed Sundays

EVENT: What do writers Betty Smith (” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” ) and Elizabeth Kostova (” The Historian” ) have in common? Best-Sellers and Hopwood Awards! Both are included in a new exhibit at the University of Michigan Special Collections Library in” A Remarkable Legacy: Hopwood Winners from Arthur Miller to Elizabeth Kostova.”

“Avery Hopwood’s bequest to the University of Michigan was intended to reward the creativity of young writers,” said Kathryn Beam, curator of the exhibit.” We are honored to be the library entrusted with archiving the history of the awards, and for the past 25 years have been actively pursuing literary archives of past winners.”

In conjunction with U-M’s 75th anniversary celebration of the Hopwood Awards, the exhibit includes original manuscripts and published books from each decade of the Hopwood Awards, along with photographs, articles and books illustrating the later successes of many student winners.

PLACE: The Special Collections Library is located on the 7th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library on the Ann Arbor Central Campus. Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/news/ccamp.html

TO REGISTER: The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public.

CONTACT: Peggy Daub or Kathryn Beam , Special Collections Library, University of Michigan (734) 764-9377

Hopwood Anniversaryhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/