The 2000 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry of the Library of Congress will be presented in October 2000 for the best book of poetry published by a living United States author during the preceding two years (i.e., during 1998 or 1999). The $10,000 biennial prize is given by the family of the late Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt of Austin, Texas, in her memory. She was President Lyndon B. Johnson's sister and, while a graduate student in Washington during the 1930s, was an employee of the Library of Congress, where she met co-worker and college student O.P. Bobbitt, whom she later married. The long campaign by which my father moved, successively, from conspiratorial co-worker to confidant to suitor, was partly played out in the indexing department of the Library. Sometime after my mother's death, my father and I decided to endow a memorial in her honor and, owing to the history I have described, the Library of Congress was suggested as a possible recipient of this memoriam. The Bobbitt Prize, a milestone in the Library's history, was the first such award given by the Library since, in the aftermath of controversy surrounding the Library's awarding of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound for his Pisan Cantos
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