Kirk Bjornsgaard
It is with great sadness, I must tell you of the passing of Kirk Bjornsgaard, editor at the University of Oklahoma Press and much more. We both served on the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book Board and worked on the Oklahoma Author Database together. He gently edited my entries, adding and removing commas and correcting typos. He was the very human face at the University of Oklahoma Press, a real advocate of reading and Oklahoma literature and a nice person. All of which will make him very missed by colleagues, friends and acquaintances.
I leave you with their comments on his passing. From the University of Oklahoma Press. http://www.oupress.com/kirk.asp
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Comments
As a long-ago co-worker of Kirk, who wrote side-by-side with him at The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., I can attest he was a great individual… one never to be forgotten. I had a brief e-mail exchange with him a few years ago… only wish I could have talked newspapers with him one more time…
Thank you for all these wonderful thoughts and comments about my dear older brother. I hope you all will be there on June 20th to honor his memory.
David Bjornsgaard
I was deeply sadden today to learn of Kirk’s death. thanks to him, the introduction I wrote for the reprint of Wm. Cunningham’s novel The Green Corn Rebellion is much better than I could have hoped for. And he was encouraging me to complete my book on the rebellion itself. Now he’ll never get to see either in print. I can’t be there in person June 20, but I’ll be thinking of Kirk and what we’ve lost.
Nigel Sellars
Heading to a Center for the Book board meeting today and it will be sad with no Kirk. He was a kind, intelligent and fun fellow. We’ll miss him.