| News Items & Awards
"Edgefield author wins top South Carolina writing award. . . .
Carolina Clay . . . has earned Leonard Todd the 2009 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, presented by the South Carolina Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress."
—Louise Keith Claussen, The Augusta Chronicle/On the Artside, July 22, 2009
Carolina Clay by Leonard Todd was named one of four finalists for the National Award for Arts Writing. This prestigious award is given each year by the Arts Club of Washington, D. C., to single out books that make the arts more vibrant and interesting to the general readership. Kim Roberts, award administrator, said of Carolina Clay, "We found the writing so compelling."
— The Arts Club of Washington, March 2009
"Leonard Todd has written Dave's first biography, Carolina Clay, [which has] also spurred museum interest. On Feb. 24, the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina will unveil the first of several Dave vessels it has acquired. 'Leonard's book certainly was a big motivation' for the purchases, said Thomas W. Styron, the director of the Greenville museum, which will present a two-handle storage jar with a dreamy inscription about constellations:
the sun moon and — stars =
in the west are a plenty of — bears."
—Eve Kahn, The New York Times, February 6, 2009
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