Legends and Liberties

Later this week, during Tennessee’s Killer Nashville conference (August 24-27), prolific Iowa crime/thriller novelist Max Allan Collins will be presented with the John Seigenthaler Legends Award, which the conference’s Web site says is “bestowed upon an individual within the publishing industry who, like its namesake, has devoted his or her life to championing First Amendment Rights, advocating for social change, equality, and fairness, or otherwise defending issues of freedom.” The annual Legends Award has previously gone to authors Robert J. Randisi, Robert K. Tanenbaum, and Donald Bain.