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Deacon King Kong is a novel by James McBride. It notably won the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for Fiction, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and Thurber Prize for American Humor . Narrative
In December 2020, Emily Temple of Literary Hub reported that his novel Deacon King Kong had made 16 lists of the best books of 2020, [13] while in February 2021 it won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. [14] Deacon King Kong received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction [15] and was selected for Oprah's Book Club.
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Sister, the content company headed by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has nabbed the television rights to James McBride's novel "Deacon King Kong." The announcement comes ...
Sister, the global content company co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone, has won the rights to James McBride's Deacon King Kong to develop as a television series.
In 2008, Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award, [3] which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses. [4] The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28, 2008. [3]
The Kirkus Prize is an American literary award conferred by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews.Established in 2014, the Kirkus Prize bestows US$150,000 annually. Three authors are awarded US$50,000 each, divided into three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers' Literature. [1]
In 1983, William Peter Blatty sued the New York Times Book Review for failing to include his 1983 novel, Legion, in its best-seller list. The New York Times had previously claimed that it based its "best-seller list" is based on computer-processed sales figures from 2,000 bookstores across the United States.