Sentences with phrase «won national book»

James Tobin's book Ernie Pyle's War won a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Twenty years after COLD MOUNTAIN, which won the National Book Award, became an international bestseller and adapted into an Academy Award - winning film, Charles Frazier revisits the days of the Civil War era in his latest novel, VARINA.

Based on the title character of Barbara Cooney's wonderful book, Miss Rumphius, which won the National Book Award in 1983, this Award honors librarians, school media specialists, and educators who are stellar in spreading ideas and literacy.

His book, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Macmillan / FSG), was on many 2013 best books lists (including the Amazon editors» Top 20) and won the National Book Award.

So many of our authors have won national book awards again this year, many have enjoyed multiple reprints, and of course... just getting that back DONE and OUT is huge!

His first novel, Cold Mountain, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.

He has won the National Book Award in Bolivia, the prestigious Juan Rulfo Award, and was a finalist for the Romulo Gallegos Award.

Philbrick has won the National Book Award in non-fiction for In the Heart of the Sea and the Massachusetts Book Award for Mayflower, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in History, and has received numerous other awards for his books and contributions to various museums and historical institutes.

As to my other favorites: High - profile books like The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith, Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (which just won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature) and Bone Gap by Laura Ruby are favored award contenders in many circles — and deservedly so.

I'll say it: I think Lionel Shriver should have won the National Book Award.

A contributing writer for the Nation magazine, Smith is already drawing comparisons to Ta - Nehisi Coates, whose memoir, Between the World and Me, hit bestseller lists last summer and won a National Book Award.

Eire knows a thing or two about growing up under a Communist regime, having won the National Book Award for Waiting for Snow in Havana, a dazzling account of his youth in Cuba.

He is also known for his work, Going After Cacciato, that won National Book Award (1979).

This work, which won the National Book Award in nonfiction, is something to behold: a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers when national events most conform to his vision.

Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.

Established in 1993, its William Faulkner — William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, with cash awards for the best novel - in - progress, novella, short story, poem, essay, and short story by a high school student, has contributed to the launching of a number of careers — including those of Stewart O'Nan, whose first novel, Snow Angels (Doubleday, 1994), was a competition winner; Julia Glass, who won the National Book Award (NBA) for Three Junes (Pantheon Books, 2002); and Lynn Stegner, who was nominated for the NBA for two novels, Undertow (Baskerville, 1996) and Fata Morgana (Baskerville, 1995).

For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best... (more)

Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1999 and also garnered the Macalan Gold Dagger for crime fiction.

Her first novel, The Seas, won the National Book Foundation's Five Under... (more)

The author of nine books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and won the National Book Award... (more)

This moving novel won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott won the National Book Award in 1998.

I was glad to see that Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for Fiction.

In 1988 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Middleman and Other Stories.

Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002.

This highly topical and rigorously researched «True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic» won the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction and is a finalist for the California Book Award.

Since, like Ellis, Chernow is one of America's foremost biographers — he won the National Book Award in 1990 for The House of Morgan, his first book — this is likely.

His second book Between The World and Me won the National Book Award for Noniction in 2015.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty has just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Charming Billy (1998), won the National Book Award.

Brenda has edited books that have been # 1 New York Times bestsellers, and have won the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Caldecott Honor, the Printz Honor, and the Eisner Award.

In 2015, his book Between the World and Me won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and he received a MacArthur «Genius Grant.»

There's a reason Ta - Nehisi Coates has won the National Book Award and is a MacArthur Fellow.

His 2016 groundbreaking book, The Autoimmune Fix, won the National Book Award and ranked first in several categories on Amazon.

Andrew Solomon's 2001 book, The Noonday Demon, won the National Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

It won the National Book Award in nonfiction for 2015, and its author, Ta - Nehisi Coates, was recently awarded a MacArthur «Genius» Grant.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

Carroll, a novelist and former priest who won a National Book Award for his memoir An American Requiem, offers the slimmest tome of the three.

Why she's awesome: Bezos is a best - selling novelist who won the National Book Award for «The Testing of Luther Albright.»

Franzen's novel immediately earned raves when it was first published in 2001, winning the National Book Award and landing on Time Magazine «s list of the top 100 English - language novels since 1923.

It won the Nationals book Award, which is a literary award, open to all age ranges.

But if you recognize that even the most successful authors have been, say, rejected by 56 agents, like Kathryn Stocket was with The Help, or faced six years of rejection, like Julia Glass did before publishing Three Junes, which went on to win the National Book Award, it becomes just part of the process, a story you can someday tell about how hard - fought your success was.

After winning the National Book Award for his meaty opus Tree of Smoke (2007), Johnson's next move was obvious: publish a serial crime novel in the pages of Playboy.

First of all, it's hard not to root for a writer who wins the National Book Award with her debut novel at age 46 and dedicates her award to «everybody who blooms late in life, whether you're a writer or anything else because you never, never know.»

I am a results - oriented book editor: I have helped numerous writers successfully self - publish, win national book awards, get top literary agents to represent them, and persuade America's best publishing houses to publish their books.

Their catalog includes some of the world's most popular entertainment brands such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and My Little Pony; award - winning editions of classic comics including the Artist's Edition line; and # 1 New York Times bestsellers like Love Is Love and March, the first graphic novel ever to win the National Book Award.

Not exact matches

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.

It was a No. 1 bestseller and won the National Business Book Award.

She has won seven National Newspaper Awards and is the author of several bestselling books, two of which won the National Business Book Award.

Reznik's book was already completed when the national - communist Gennady Zhyuganov and his «patriotic» rival Alexander Lebed won tens of millions of votes in the presidential elections.