According to a Press Release from the NH Council on the Arts:
Governor John Lynch has appointed Robert J. Begiebing of Newfields to the NH State Council on the Arts. Begiebing is the author of over twenty articles and stories and six books, including an historical New England trilogy of novels spanning 1648-1850. His final novel in the trilogy Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction (UPNE, 2003), won the Langum Prize for historical fiction in 2003. The first novel in the trilogy The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin (Algonquin, 1991, 1996) was chosen as a Main Selection for the Mystery and Literary Guild Book Clubs.
His novels, including a third book in the trilogy The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton (UPNE 1999, 2001), have garnered critical acclaim in The New York Times, The Times of London, The Los Angeles Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Yankee Magazine, and Library Journal, among many other national and regional periodicals. His fiction writing has been supported by grants from the Lila-Wallace Foundation and the NH State Council for the Arts.
"I was of course honored to be nominated for this position," Begiebing said of his appointment to the State Arts Council. "…this is a great opportunity for me to make a contribution to the life of the arts in the state and to help support our many fine individual artists."
Since 1977, Begiebing has served on the faculty of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), where he has won three awards for excellence in teaching, and where he currently directs the Master of Fine Arts program in Fiction and Nonfiction. The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts is the advisory Council for the Division of the Arts within the Department of Cultural Resources. It was established in 1965 as the official state arts agency with legislation (RSA 19-A) designed "to insure that the role of the arts in the life of our communities will continue to grow and play an ever more significant part in the welfare and educational experience of our citizens."
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