June 30, 2025
For Immediate Release
Contact: Judith Briles
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3 Colorado Literary Pioneers to Be Inducted into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame
Denver, CO, June 30, 2025 – The Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame has announced the 12 new Inductees to this year's Hall of Fame Gala taking place on Saturday, September 6th at the Double Tree Hilton Denver Tech Center in Greenwood Village. Gala tickets are available now on the Hall's website: www.ColoradoAuthorsHallofFame.org.
This years' Inductees include three Inductees who are literary pioneers in the Western, Teens-YA, and Adventure genres and no longer living. They will be inducted as Legacy authors.
Kent Haruf created the fiction town of Holt in Colorado and wove his many books around the rural life of Colorado. Denver's magazine 5280, wrote in 2015 that Haruf is widely considered [to be] Colorado's finest novelist. When it came to writing, he said, "Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do."
Lucile Eve Bennett wrote as Eve Bennett. Her words supported her six children and were discovered by the Rocky Mountain News. Her novels were written for teens. Ove 100 years ago, she worked for the Rocky Mountain News as a columnist, woman's editor and feature writer and said, "I consider newspaper writing the best training possible for fiction writing."
Perry Eberhart found his writing muse in France. Returning to Colorado, he became an expert in treasure hunting and gold mines, writing several books and guides on ghost towns. If you are a treasure hunter, his book Treasure Tales of the Rockies written in 1969 is considered a gold mine of adventure.
The living inductees who will be celebrated and honored at the Induction Gala include bestselling and prolific authors include:
- Jim Butcher
- Jim Davidson
- Mary Ellen Gilliland
- Francine Mathews
- Linda Seger
- Oscar Sladek
- Tommy Spaulding
- Dan Tyler
- Stephen White
- Rebecca Yarros
The Authors Hall of Fame aims to recognize and celebrate outstanding authors with ties to the beautiful state of Colorado. The new Inductees will join 50 authors who have already been inducted since 2019. Past inductees included former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, former Miss America's and advocate Marilyn Van Derbur, horror icon Stephen King, Newbury Medal winner Avi, cookbook pioneer Carol Fenster, Sci-fi writer Kevin J Anderson, western author Louis L'Amour, acclaimed Christian author Jerry Jenkins, and women's fiction author Sandra Dallas.
The Colorado Authors Hall of Fame is the first in the nation to recognize and celebrate the breadth of work that authors exclusively brought forth.
The Hall inducts new authors biennially every two years. The public is invited to nominate their favorite authors with ties to Colorado. Nominations will open again in late fall 2026 for the 2027 Induction.
About Colorado Authors Hall of Fame®
Authors Hall of Fame® strives to educate the people of Colorado and the country about the stories of the authors who shaped their works using their personal presence and the environment of our State with courage, leadership, intelligence, compassion, and creativity. Inductees are authors who've made a major impact on others with their words. The Authors Hall of Fame® recognition endeavors to ensure their legacies never die.
The 2025 Induction of the Hall of Fame® will be held September 6th at the DoubleTree Hilton Denver Tech Center. Additional information about the upcoming Induction event, inductees, donations, events, and board members is available at www.ColoradoAuthorsHallofFame.org
The public is invited to visit the website, read the criteria for nominations, and encouraged to attend the Gala event.
Press inquiries: Judith Briles, CEO at Judith@Briles.com or 303-885-2207.
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