John D’Emilio has been chosen as the recipient of the Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction for his biography of Bayard Rustin, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. The award is presented annually by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Round Table of the American Library Association.
D’Emilio, Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at UIC, is one of the leading GLBT historians in the nation. Lost Prophet elucidates the life of Rustin, the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, as a pacifist, civil-rights activist, and gay man.
The Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award will be presented June 28 at the GLBT Roundtable breakfast during the American Library Association’s meeting in Orlando. Lost Prophet was nominated in 2003 for a National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
D’Emilio, a member of the Gerber/Hart Library board of directors, will speak about Rustin at a program to celebrate African-American History Month. The program will take place on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 4 p.m. at Gerber/Hart, 1127 W. Granville Ave.