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Harriet Scott Chessman (born January 16, 1951) is an American author of four novels, including Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, a #1 Booksense Pick, [1] Someone Not Really Her Mother, a Good Morning America book club choice, [2] and The Beauty of Ordinary Things. Chessman's subjects often center on mortality, love, trauma, and the ...
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
2021: Richard and Judy Book Club pick (Sugar) 2020: Mary Cadden and others, USA Today, "100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston" [7] 2019: Essence Magazine "Best Books of the Decade" (Gathering of Waters) [8] 2019: Longlist, Women's Prize for Fiction (Praise Song for the Butterflies)
(For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. The writers on the current list fall into one or more ...
The poll results were announced on May 18, 2006, ahead of the BookExpo America trade fair in Washington, D.C., before appearing in print on May 21. [4] That week's edition of the NYTBR was exclusively devoted to fiction works, and the magazine's cover illustration features the cover art of 22 books from the poll results. [2]
The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation , but they are awards "by writers to writers."
Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane; Stevin Hoover: The Hannah Chronicles: Book One, The Door in the Floor; Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series; Ellen Hopkins: Crank; Anthony Horowitz: The Power of Five series, The Diamond Brothers, Alex Rider; Erin Hunter: Warriors series, New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
About setting his novels in the midwest, he told The New York Times in 2013: I go back to a very specific aspect of the Midwest — small towns surrounded by farmland. They make a good stage for what I like to write about, i.e., roads and houses, bridges and rivers and weather and woods, and people to whom strange or interesting things happen ...