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Who Killed the Robins Family? is a mystery/contest novel created by Bill Adler and written by Thomas Chastain. The first edition (ISBN 0-688-02171-9) was published in hardcover format by William Morrow in 1983. Warner Books published the paperback edition in 1984 (ISBN 0-446-32314-4).
The novel contains Afro-Caribbean culture with themes of folklore and magical realism. It was the winning entry in the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. [1] Since the selection, Hopkinson's novel has received critical acclaim in the form of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, [2] and the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
First book awards are literary prizes given to novelists for their debut novel or non-fiction writers for their first full length work. These awards are important for new writers to establish themselves in literary markets and gaining critical attention.
One of her students recalled the wildflower and stone-gathering contests that Warner sponsored when she was a teacher. As well as her books in The Boxcar Children series, Warner wrote many other books for children, including The World in a Barn (1927), Windows into Alaska (1928), The World on a Farm (1931) and Peter Piper, Missionary Parakeet ...
The first book in the ... (New York: Aspect/Warner Books, ... 1967, 5th place in national Writer's Digest short story contest) Blindsight (Novel: 1978, started ...
Books originally published by Warner Books, formerly of Warner Communications, now a defunct division of Hachette Book Group USA. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Warner is the author of the Connor Westphal mystery series, about a deaf reporter in the California Gold Country. The first book in the series, Dead Body Language, won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel in 1998.
Although it was first rejected by many publishers, Warner's first novel became an instant sensation among its readers. The novel paints an excellent picture of the Victorian era of the United States, and so the readers of the time appreciated its relevancy to their own lives. (Jo March reads the book in Little Women.)
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