One Book One Nebraska 2010 invites citizens across the state to read “The Home Place,” by Wright Morris, a native of Central City, Nebraska.

This “photo-text” is an account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to “the home place” at Lone Tree, Neb.

A ground-breaking work, it has been called “as near to a new fiction form as you could get.”

The Nebraska Center for the Book board selected “The Home Place” for Nebraska’s statewide read to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wright Morris who is regarded as one of America’s most gifted novelists and photographers.

Internationally recognized, he received the National Book Award in 1957 for “The Field of Vision” and the American Book Award in 1981 for “Plains Song.”

Morris utilizes his Nebraska and Great Plains boyhood experiences as themes in his work.

2010 One Book One Nebraska is hosted by the Lone Tree Literary Society, www.wrightmorris.org, and sponsored by a coalition of organizations.

Libraries across Nebraska are joining the Lone Tree Literary Society and other literary and cultural organizations in planning book discussions, activities, and events that will encourage Nebraskans to read and discuss this book.

The Lone Tree Literary Society will sponsor activities throughout the year to help highlight One Book One Nebraska, including the Wright Morris Centennial Year Conference on Oct. 9.

Support materials to assist with local reading/discussion activities are available at http://centerforthebook.nebraska.gov/onebook/2010/get_involved.htm.

A Website, hosted at the Nebraska Library Commission, can be accessed at www.onebookonenebraska.org. It features book discussion materials, a downloadable poster and press kit to help with publicity, information for library loan of book club kits, and a calendar of events.