Sentences with phrase «for national book»
Alderman recently conducted a study for a national book chain that distributes products from three warehouses.
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Young is the poetry editor at The New Yorker, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the author of 11 books of poetry and prose, most recently Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995 — 2015 (2016), which was longlisted for the National Book Award.
A contributor to the exhibition's catalogue, Rachel Kushner is the author of two novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers, both Finalists for the National Book Award.
Her best - selling and critically acclaimed memoir Hold Still (Little, Brown, 2015) won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named a finalist for the National Book Award.
Author of six novels — including Dreaming in Cuban, The Lady Matador's Hotel, and King of Cuba — García has been nominated for a National Book Award and her works have been translated into fourteen languages.
Adam Haslett's first book, a collection of stories called You Are Not a Stranger Here, was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
His most recent book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014, discusses various narratives of race and gender.
It was also chosen as one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 and as a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
He is the author of 11 collections of poetry (including Study for the World's Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently the collection, The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us.
Lynne Tillman's novels include Cast in Doubt (1992), No Lease on Life (1998)---- a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award ---- American Genius, A Comedy (2006), and Men and Apparitions (forthcoming in 2017).
He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, and has received fellowships from Howard Foundation, Guggenheim, and a MacArthur Foundations.
Lauren Groff is the author of four books, most recently Fates and Furies, a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.
In 2010, she served as a judge for the National Book Award.
Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long - listed for the National Book Award, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
His illustrations for Barbara Kerley's The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins won a Caldecott Honor award in 2002; and in 2008, his groundbreaking book The Invention of Hugo Cabret was awarded the Caldecott Medal, was nominated for a National Book Award, and was the basis for Martin Scorsese's Oscar - winning film Hugo.
Currently, she is a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, a contributing editor to Publishing Perspectives, and visiting faculty for National Book Trust's publishing course.
Lauren Groff is the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, a New York Times — bestselling novel, finalist for the National Book Award and Amazon's # 1 Best Book of the Year....
Soon after receiving a Leeway award, Kephart was nominated for a National Book Award for her memoir, «A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage.»
This year breaks precedence with the award going to The Shadow Hero (Macmillan / First Second) by Gene Luen Yang «a writer who has made his name in the graphic novel industry, where he wrote and illustrated the first ever graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award [Boxers and Saints]-- and the first ever graphic novel to win the Printz Award [American Born Chinese].»
Domingo Martinez is the New York Times Best Selling author of The Boy Kings of Texas and was a finalist for The National Book Award in 2012.
She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion and a young adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
(Bloomsbury USA, 2014; OverDrive Sample), a finalist for the National Book Award and on many best books lists.
Darnielle, who is probably best known in pop culture as the prime mover behind the celebrated lo - fi indie band The Mountain Goats, was also nominated for the National Book Award with his NY Times bestselling debut novel, Wolf in White Van.
Hannah's first novel, Geronimo Rex, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972.
The Association of Small Bombs — A finalist for the National Book Award, Mahajan's novel — smart, devastating and unpredictable — opens with a Kashmiri terrorist attack in a Delhi market, then follows the lives of those affected.
Paulette Jiles brings the landscape of late 19th century Texas to life in this novel long - listed for the National Book Award about an unlikely friendship that is formed between a former Civil War hero and a young abducted girl.
My feeling is that any author that gets nominated for a National Book Award can teach me how to write a better novel, no matter the genre.
This compelling look at an artist's life and career was a finalist for the National Book Award and ranked # 5 on our Best Books of 2015.
I am excited to introduce my creative writing students to this novel, deservedly long - listed for the National Book Award.
In The Inner Circle, his charmingly prurient look at American sex, best - selling author T.C. Boyle whose last book, Drop City, was a finalist for the National Book Award takes us back to an era when we were quicker to conquer Nazi evil than we were to conquer our own inherent prudishness.
She's been nominated for the National Book Award, The Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Alan's previous book, The World Without Us (2007), was a New York Times and international bestseller, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orion Book Award, the Rachel Carson Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and winner of the National Library of China's Wenjin Book Prize.
She was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Printz honor recipient for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau - Banks, which was also a ToB contestant (and Zombie) in 2009.
Lauren Groff, the author of four books, including Fates and Furies, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the # 1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the...
Doctorow's tale, a finalist for the National Book Award, traces the course of Sherman and his Union troops across Georgia and both Carolinas.
Francine Prose is the author of about 20 books, including Blue Angel (2000) which was a finalist for the National Book Award; she is considered one of America's sharpest cultural satirists.
Powers, who was nominated for the National Book Award for his debut novel The Yellow Birds, is a veteran of the Iraq war and a Virginia native.
Stay tuned throughout the rest of the week for National Book Award longlist announcements for nonfiction (Sept 18) and fiction (Sept 19)!
Her first book, the memoir A Slant of Sun, was a finalist for the National Book Award.She teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, reviews books frequently for publications like the Chicago Tribune and...
From his outstanding short - story collection Tenth of December (a finalist for the National Book Award) to his «Two - Minute Note to the Future» Chipotle fiction, Saunders has time and again rendered us awestruck with his wild originality and balance of profound insight and bizarre hilarity.
A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara Anchor • $ 17 • ISBN 9780804172707 Ranked # 1 on the BookPage list of Best Books of 2015 and a finalist for the National Book Award, this harrowing and unforgettable portrait of childhood trauma and lasting friendship vaulted Yanigihara into the ranks of America's top novelists.
The first graphic novel ever nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the 2007 Printz Award, its twisting narrative, ironic tone, classical page composition, and deep, human insights stand alone but could also make an excellent contrast for the straight narrative, epic sweep, experimental art, and deep, human insights of another graphic novel that explores themes of immigration, Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2007).
Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013.
He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, won the 2008 Plimpton Prize, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has been a fellow of the NEA, Creative Capital, and Guggenheim Foundation.
Award season rolls on as the finalists for the National Book Award are announced!
Publishing: A Writer's Memoir By Gail Godwin Bloomsbury • $ 16 • ISBN 9781620408254 The novelist and three - time finalist for the National Book Award reflects on her 45 - year career as a writer, from her early struggles to find her voice to the often frustrating ups - and - downs of the publishing business.
He also will remain as board chairman for the National Book Foundation, which oversees the National Book Awards and numerous educational programs.
She is a two - time finalist for the National Book Award, and Praying for Sheetrock, which the Boston Globe described it as «a monumental social history with implications that go far beyond the borders of a tiny coastal Georgia county», was named one of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century.
Her second book, Mother Country: Britain, The Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution (1988), revealed the extensive environmental damage caused by the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, in the north of England; the book evolved from an essay that she wrote for Harper's Review and was a finalist for the National Book Award.