Sentences with phrase «book award finalist»

Lauren Redniss (MFA 2000 Illustration as Visual Essay) Illustrator; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2012); Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (HarperCollins, 2010), National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize nominee for political cartooning in the The New York Times (2002); assistant professor of Illustration, Art, Media and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design

His 1991 publication Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (with Gregory White Smith) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and was a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction.

is a New York Times 2014 Best Book of the Year, 2014 National Book Award Finalist, winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize, and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best books of 2014.

Distinguished Fellows recognized at these events have included Pulitzer - Prize - winning writers Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Cunningham, National Book Award Finalist Jacqueline Woodson, NY State Poet Laureate Marie Howe and award - winning artists Elliott Hundley and Jack Pierson.

Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible (Spiegel & Grau / Random House), a 2015 National Jewish Book Award finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize finalist, and one of Publishers» Weekly's Top 10 Religion Stories of 2015.

She's a National Book Award finalist and two - time Utah Book Award winner.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Other awards she has received include a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, the Maine Lupine Award, ALA Best Book of the Year, Foreward Reviews Gold Winner Book of the Year, Volunteer State Book Award Selection, and Garden State Book Award Finalist.

She has received four Pushcart Prizes, was a National Book Award finalist, and has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, amongst her many honors.

It was a National Book Award finalist, and also appeared on the PW kids list.

In addition to Tuck, which as been adapted into films and a Broadway play, Babbitt is also known for the Newbery Honor book Kneeknock Rise and the National Book Award finalist The Devil's Storybook (both from (Macmillan / Square Fish).

-- Grace Lin, author of Newbery Honor book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver

Our graphic novels continually break new ground for the comics medium: Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese was both the first graphic novel to win the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award and the first graphic novel to be a National Book Award finalist.

She is the author of more than two dozen award - winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four - time Newbery Honor winner, a four - time National Book Award finalist, and a two - time Coretta Scott King Award winner.

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and has written and drawn many graphic novels, including American Born Chinese, which was a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of YALSA's 2007 Printz Award and an Eisner Award.

The Race to Build — and Steal — the World's Most Dangerous Weapon; the 2014 National Book Award finalist The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights; and other critically acclaimed nonfiction titles.

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Another National Book Award finalist, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, will be the subject of the December discussion.

Titles he's edited include The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, which was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of The Woman's Prize, and The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

It seems these furtive observations paid off: Feed, a National Book Award Finalist, was honored with the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among many other major awards, and dubbed «satire at its finest.»

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: McNeal was a National Book Award finalist, which alone will draw attention, but thanks to a hefty marketing plan, this one should get even more buzz.

- Susan Straight, National Book Award finalist, author of Highwire Moon

iPulp also publishes middle grade and young adult luminaries such as Bruce Coville, David Lubar, and Vivian Vande Velde, as well as noteworthy new writers like Royce Buckingham and National Book Award finalist Kathleen Duey.

His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book.

National Book Award finalist Kephart has re-created the inexorable fear and tension, as well as the difficult living conditions, of Berliners on both sides of the wall, especially those suffering under the ruthless oppression of the dreaded East German secret police, the Stassi.

The distinguished author of Praying for Sheetrock and two - time National Book award finalist puts a human face on the AIDS crisis in Africa.

Novelist Andre Dubus has hit the bestseller list, been a National Book Award finalist and had one of his novels selected for Oprah's book club.

Shelf Talker: Three - time National Book Award Finalist and Newbery Honor author Marilyn Nelson offers a memoir of her 1950s childhood through 50 poems.

Jean Thompson is the author of five previous novels, among them The Year We Left Home, City Boy (a National Book Award finalist), and Wide Blue Yonder; and five story collections.

From a National Book Award finalist — for her memoir American Chica — and the author of the acclaimed novel Cellophane comes this spare, powerful story of sexual obsession and its consequences.

Walter and his son Christopher, an artist, collaborated on a number of picture books for young readers, including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel and National Book Award Finalist Autobiography of My Dead Brother, which Christopher illustrated.

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one - of - a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life.

From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades - spanning saga of one ordinary American family - proud, flawed, hopeful - whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large.

National Book Award finalist McCormick's YA version is just as gripping.

Three - time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated charts the rise of Jim Thorpe, Olympic gold...

His best - selling YA novels in the Ape Quartet, which started with National Book Award finalist Endangered (2012), are powerful, nuanced invitations to imagine the lives of our genetic cousins, from chimpanzees to gorillas.

Peter Swanson is the author of three novels: The Girl With a Clock For a Heart, an LA Times Book Award finalist; The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; and his most recent, Her Every Fear.

Cartoonist Roz Chast's unflinching portrait of her aging parents, Paula Hawkins» blockbuster thriller and a 2015 National Book Award finalist make for excellent group discussion this month.

BookPage is thrilled to reveal the cover for The Great Treehouse War, the upcoming middle grade novel from National Book Award finalist Lisa Graff!

Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild's eleventh book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, was a 2016 National Book Award finalist.

The first, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, was a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

Donna Bray, who in the past has worked on Newbery winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi and National Book Award Finalist The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, among many others, bought the book.

2016 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction A 2016 New York Times Notable Book New York Times Bestseller

From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go for those we love the most?

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart May 2014 Delacorte Teen Lockhart's a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree, and her new book for teens has a raving John Green blurb: «Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.»

- Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, a National Book Award finalist» [A] novel of surprising beauty and piercing suspense.

Breed by Chase Novak (the pseudonym for National Book Award finalist Scott Spencer) is one of the four books reviewed in this year's Halloween roundup.

- Jim Shepard, author of Project X and National Book Award finalist Like You'd Understand, Anyway «Tender, funny, and moving, J. Ryan Stradal's debut novel made me crave my mother's magic cookie bars... and every good tomato I've ever had the privilege of eating.