Sentences with phrase «winning writer of books»

Sewell will be joined by Susan Landau, who's a professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an award - winning writer of books including «Surveillance or Security?

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This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

In The Wages of Wins, a book co-authored by three American economics professors, its writers debunk sports myths, including the notion that spectators desert leagues after labour disputes.

And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book markeBook of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book markeBook Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book markebook marketer.

Ann Spangler is an award - winning writer and the author of many bestselling books, including Women of the Bible.

But a couple blunders in the Double Jeopardy round (including blowing a Daily Double by naming «calculator» instead of «abacus» as the counting device with a name of Greek origin) put her behind Brian entering Final Jeopardy, and when she bet it all on an incorrect guess of Michael Chabon as the last writer to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own book, she knew she was toast (but stayed smiling, because she's Julia):

Award - winning writer John Powers debuts OSV Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Oct. 25, 2012): Sportswriter John Powers, co-author of the 100th anniversary commemorative book, Fenway Park: The Coolest, Cruelest and Longest Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America, will speak in the Stephen M. Brewer Theater at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, Nov. 8, launching the...

Guest Writer - Merilee Kern Children's health advocate, health industry veteran and two - time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids.»

Our selection of personalized books for kids features the work of award - winning writers and illustrators.

The UK publication «Young Writer» magazine and the American «My Little Magazine» (now, sadly, no longer published) gave them more useful writing exercises than any text book, with the bonus of entering (and sometimes winning) competitions.

In the recently published book «An Encounter with the Spymaster,» this writer disclosed categorically that «the movement of large cash in local and foreign currencies by the two major political parties, APC and PDP, to win primaries and general elections in 2015 were discovered by security and anti-corruption agencies but tactically suppressed to avoid embarrassing outcries that could tarnish the electoral processes and rubbish the image of the country.

The fallout Wednesday stems from the president blasting his former adviser in response to Bannon's comments released in excerpts of an upcoming book by writer Michael Wolff that portray Trump as an undisciplined man who did not actually want to win the White House.

Winners of the Debut Political Book of the Year and Young Writer of the Year will each win # 3,000.

Pamela Weintraub is a senior editor at DISCOVER and author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic, for which she won the Medical Writers Association Book Award in 2009.

Carl Zimmer is an award - winning biology writer and author of The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution, among other books.

He's also an award - winning writer, and his latest book is called Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe.

A version of this hypothesis has been around since Greeks theorized that all living things came from the sea, but it gained the most popularity in 1972, when Elaine Morgan, an award - winning Welsh television writer, advocated for it in her book The Descent of Woman.

In his Pulitzer Prize - winning book The Emperor of All Maladies, a sprawling account of the history of cancer that stretches across millennia to ancient Egypt, physician - writer Siddhartha Mukherjee says, «Every decade has a unique hematological riddle.»

DC comic book writers and artists such as DC Entertainment's Jim Lee, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Shea Fontana, Agnes Garbowska, Tom King, Steve Orlando, Alice Randall, Oscar ® - winning screenwriter John Ridley, Mark Russell, Mariko Tamaki and DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns, the best - selling author of Rebirth and Doomsday Clock.

Kelly Seal is a writer, award - winning dating blogger and author of the book Date Expectations: A Guide to Changing Your Dating Life and Finding Real Love.

While not a huge surprise, considering the momentum of «Argo» as of late, the film faced stiff competition, most notably from «Lincoln,» which was adapted by Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Tony Kushner from the acclaimed book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The popular actor has played Ben Bernanke in «Too Big To Fail»; John Adams in a television miniseries for which he won an Emmy; Harvey Pekar, an underground comic book writer, in «American Splendor»; and an assortment of other characters.

This original branching storyline, co-written by award - winning comic book writer Kurt Busiek, transports players into a cosmic battle across a myriad of Marvel locations ripped from time and space and combined to form the incredible Open Hub World of Chronopolis.

Functioning more as a mythology - expanding spinoff than a proper sequel, this fifth installment (the first directed by longtime series writer Christopher Landon) smartly moves the setting away from airy suburbs to overcrowded working - class apartments, and introduces a winning sense of humor that almost compensates for its relentless reliance on every terror trope in the book.

Emmy and Oscar winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, «The West Wing») has now used portions of that book as the framework for his script.

I haven't read any of the books in author Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning «Southern Reach Trilogy,» of which Annihilation is the first installment, but from what I understand writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has reworked the material considerably as far as the script for his feature adaptation is concerned.

Based on the best - selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner.

Few writers have dissected their own coming - of - age with as much unflinching honesty as award - winning author Mary Karr, whose best - selling books include The Liar's Club and Lit: A Memoir.

The game's story was written by the Eisner Award - winning comic book writer Matt Fritchman (known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men, and Hawkeye for Marvel) and featured the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Jaimie Alexander reprising their roles from the film.

Beginning almost literally with an Easter egg shout - out only hardcore comic book fans will get at the start of a winning «I wish I'd thought of that» opening credit sequence that will be the envy of Hollywood comedy writers and producers, 20th Century Fox's Deadpool makes quick work of announcing it's a different kind of superhero movie... in a good way.

The former, a biopic of the underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, won the Grand Jury Prize and was a favorite of critics and audiences alike.

Nancie's books for Heinemann include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award - winning school to learn about the innovations that make the biggest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of instruction straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which helps teachers to jumpstart their teaching of writing and literature each day by unpacking a poem with their students.

I'm Ally Machate, founder of The Writer's Ally and your ally in book publishing, I'm a bestselling book collaborator, award - winning book editor, and expert publishing consultant.

My first novel, Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.

Irish author Donal Ryan is one of twelve writers to win the 2015 European Union Prize for Literature at the London Book Fair.

Amity has won many awards for her previous novels, such as Foreword Book of the Year Award for 2007, and in 2006, she was recognized as one of the «5 Under 35» outstanding emerging writers by the National Book Foundation.

First up is The Maramon Convention (Scribner), the forthcoming second novel from award - winning writer Abraham Verghese, whose Cutting for Stone was one of our Readers» Choice: Best Books of 2009.

Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN / Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Being able to sum up the type of writer you are, and the type of books you write, in just a single line, can help win over a reader fast.

I self published because I wanted to inspire my oldest bipolar daughter to write, which was an epic failure, but my indie book has won a contest and nabbed the attention of a screen writer.

The Sweet Spot won the 2014 Romance Writers of America ® RITA ® award in the Best First Book category.

The writer and managing editor of Francis Ford Coppola's award - winning magazine Zoetrope: All - Story, Manjula Martin, paid a visit to the show this week to talk about her new book and ``... the realities of making a living in the writing world.»

Now in 2014, following a Parsec win for their companion podcast, Tales from the Archives, Tee and Pip celebrate the arrival of their third book, Dawn's Early Light and launch a new venture — One Stop Writer Shop — offering a variety of services to up - and - coming and established indie authors.

It won first place in the reference category of the Writer's Digest Self - Published Book Awards.

I also edited a Diabetes Education Guide that won first place in the reference category of the Writer's Digest Self - Published Book Awards (2010).

With her next two books, The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle, Walters won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the CWA Gold Dagger respectively, giving her a unique treble.

Allison Amend, a graduate of the Iowa Writers» Workshop, is the author of the Independent Publisher's Award - winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love and the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award.

Formerly a feature writer for the Wall Street Journal, where he was part of a Pulitzer Prize - winning reporting team, Anders is currently a contributing editor for Forbes and the author of five previous business books, including the bestseller Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett - Packard.

BookPage contributor Alice Cary, who had a warm and wonderful conversation with Strout about the book, reveals some of the interesting facts she learned about this Pulitzer Prize - winning writer.

In 1997 he published a collection of short stories, Love and Longing in Bombay, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region); was short - listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize; and was included in a number of «notable books of the year» lists.