A behind-the-scenes tour of Ragdale, an artists’ retreat that was once the summer retreat of renowned Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.  Winner will also have an opportunity to visit the studio and meet with an artist or author-in-residence about his or her current work.

Also includes an assortment of books written by former authors-in-residence, and a book about the history of the Foundation:

• Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook for Writing Fiction by Lawrence Block


• The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold


• The Girls, by Nina Barrett


• Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan


• In The Company of Angels, by N.M. Kelby


• Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, by Jacki Lyden


• Blue Water, by A. Manette Ansay


• The Quiet Eye, by Sylvia Shaw Johnson


• Ragdale: A History and Guide, by Alice Hayes and Susan Moon