Date 05/09/2015 - News People
Actress Sally Field and author Stephen King are among luminaries set to receive a National Medal of Arts or a National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. Obama will bestow the honors on 18 people and three institutions during a White House ceremony Thursday. Field will receive an arts medal for showing dignity, empathy and fearlessness in performances that have touched audiences worldwide. She also is being honored for showing those same qualities in her off-screen advocacy for women, LGBT rights and public health. King--of Bangor, Maine--is also receiving an arts medal for combining storytelling with analysis of human nature, and for thrilling readers through decades of work.
