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The Ten Outstanding Young Americans program exists to recognize and honor ten Americans each year who exemplify the best attributes of the nation's young people, aged 18 through 40. [1] The TOYA program is sponsored by the United States Junior Chamber. [2] Prior to 1985, the program was known as the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) program.
The concept for America's Ten Outstanding Young Men was fathered by Durward Howes, publisher of a yearly volume, "America's Young Men." Howes published in his books for 1934, 1935, and 1936 his own selections for the twelve outstanding young men in America. In the 1937 volume, he cut the list from twelve men to ten.
The pre-war awards and the 1980 to 1983 graphics awards are covered below following the main list of current award categories. There have been five award categories since 2018: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, and Translated Literature. The main list below is organized by the current award categories and by year.
Two authors have won two Children's or Young People's awards twice. Lloyd Alexander won for The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1971) and Westmark (1982), among six titles that were finalists. Katherine Paterson won for The Master Puppeteer (1977) and The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979), among three titles that were finalists.
The JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, usually JCI TOYP, program serves to formally recognize young people who excel in their chosen fields and exemplify the best attributes of the world's young people. The program is sponsored by Junior Chamber International (JCI).
This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition ...
Awarded annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. [8] Boston Globe-Horn Book Award: The Boston Globe/The Horn Book Magazine: 1967 Given annually in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. The latter two awards may be either children’s or young adult works.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, abolition or antislavery movements: since 1999 John H. Dunning Prize: American Historical Association: Best book in history related to the United States: since 1929 Sidney M. Edelstein Award: American Chemical Society