The Literary Landmark dedication of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum featured a performance by Dr. George Frein, distinguished scholar and living presenter who, as Mark Twain, talked about his life as a Mississippi River pilot. Dr. Frein also fielded questions from the audience afterwards, again as Twain.

The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum includes six properties that are on the National Register of Historic Places (including his boyhood home, which was built in the 1840s and opened to the public in 1912), and two interactive museums. Twain lived in Hannibal from age 4 to 17. The experiences that Samuel Clemens took from Hannibal became part of American culture through his writings as Mark Twain.

Marguerite deAngeli, a native of Lapeer, Mich., was an author and illustrator of 20th century children's literature. In 1950, she was awarded the Newbery Medal for The Door in the Wall. She was one of the first inductees into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. The main branch of the Lapeer City Library was renamed in her honor on Aug. 22, 1981. The library has an extensive collection of her materials, including original drawings.

The Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma (FOLIO) honored John Joseph Mathews and the Osage Tribal Museum with an United for Libraries Literary Landmark dedication on Nov. 17, 2009.
Mathews authored four nonfiction books and one fiction book in his lifetime. Wah’Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Road (1932) was the first university press book selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold 50,000 copies. His second book, Sundown (1934), while categorized as fiction, is semi-autobiographical and noted for its depiction of the struggles experienced by a young Indian as he leaves the reservation during the early 1900s. In Talking to the Moon: Wildlife Adventures on the Plains and Prairies of Osage County (1945), Mathews describes his own experience of living 10 years on the plains in a small rock cabin.

Partners: Empire State Center for the Book, The Children's Book Council, Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine  was dedicated a Literary Landmark in honor of Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007). The author of the children’s literary classic A Wrinkle in Time served as the church’s librarian for more than 40 years.

During the Literary Landmark dedication in honor of the author Stark Young, a plaque was placed on the south lawn of the library. The dedication included a performance of “A Visit from Stark Young” by the North Mississippi Storytellers Guild. Karen Wilson, executive director of the Son Edna Foundation in Charleston, gave the keynote about literacy in small-town rural Mississippi. Igor Bosin read selections from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Russian, with Stark Young’s English translations following. A book signing by Lauren Lavergne’s Como Elementary School first grade class rounded out the tribute’s events immediately prior to the reveal of the Literary Landmark plaque.