Brooks McNamara

The Theatre Library Association has announced the winners of the 2012 Book Awards.The Theatre Library Association has announced the winners of the 2012 Book Awards.

Theatre Library Association celebrates exceptional performing arts books and honors one of its outstanding members--and, for the first time, an outstanding student member--at the Lincoln Center ceremony being held on Friday, November 4!

The new York Times reports that Brooks McNamara passed away on May 8, 2009 at the age of 72. He was most well known and regarded for his role as the founding director of the Shubert Archives. The immediate cause was pneumonia, said his wife in a statement to the Times, Nan. Mr. McNamara had been suffering from sporadic cerebellar ataxia, a degenerative nerve disorder.