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Stephanie Grace Whitson (born 1952) is an American writer of historical fiction.A native of southern Illinois, she has lived in Nebraska, United States, since 1975. [1] [2] She began what she calls "playing with imaginary friends" (writing fiction) when, as a result of teaching her four homeschooled children Nebraska history, she was encouraged and challenged by the lives of pioneer women in ...
The 1996 publication of her book Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills established Norton as a new and respected literary writer [8] and a voice for environmental reform on the Great Plains of America by combining the genres of personal narrative and nature writing to issue a plea for conscious use of the waters of the ...
1963 - Spur Award for best Juvenile fiction for The Story Catcher. [11] 1964 - Saddleman Award now called the Owen Wister Award for The Story Catcher. [12] 1969 - The Mari Sandoz Award is established by the Nebraska Library Association. It is given annually to "significant, enduring contribution to the Nebraska book world through writing, film ...
The 2024 National Book Awards finalists will read from their work on Tuesday, Nov. 19 at the annual NYU Skirball event, which will be livestreamed and hosted by award-winning journalist and host ...
The National Book Foundation awards winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. This year, publishers submitted a total of 1,917 books.
Related: National Books Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist From Dec. 16-Dec. 19, the board will reveal the longlists for six genres — fiction, autobiography, biography ...
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
National Book Award for Translated Literature – awarded annually for a fiction or non-fiction translation from any language into English by the National Book Award National Translation Award – annual prize awarded by the American Literary Translators Association [ 2 ]