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Porter Prize lifetime achievement

April 10, 2014 2:15 p.m.

The 3rd Porter Prize lifetime achievement award ceremony April 6 at the Governor’s Mansion brought out a handful of past Porter Prize winners and young writers. This year is the 30th anniversary of the prize, begun by Jack Butler and Phillip McMath. It began as a $500 award at a small party. Today it’s $2,000 and the kind of gathering recognized by the social intelligentsia. The lifetime achievement award, presented every five years, has had been but two previous winners: Donald Harington, also a Porter Prize winner, and Miller Williams. Add to that short list Charles Portis.

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