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The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children recognizes books which demonstrate excellence in the "writing of nonfiction for children." [1] [2] It is awarded annually by the National Council of Teachers of English to one American book published the previous year. [3] Up to five titles may be designated as Honor Books.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading was a yearly anthology of fiction and nonfiction selected annually by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The volume was part of The Best American Series and was initially edited by Dave Eggers . [ 4 ]
American non-fiction writers have won the American Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Awarded since 1962 for a distinguished work of nonfiction by an American writer that is not eligible in another category. For the authors prize-winning books, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction–winning works
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 is the sixth annual volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology series. It is edited by Dave Eggers, introduced by Sufjan Stevens, and has cover art by Carson Ellis. [1] [2] [3] It contains nineteen short pieces of fiction and non-fiction by various authors. [1]
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris: Bernard Lewis: The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years: 1997 Anne Fadiman. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Winner [27] Jon Krakauer
Creative Nonfiction is a literary magazine based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.The journal was founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993, making it the first literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high quality nonfiction prose.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction novel written by H. G. Bissinger, following the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.
Educated spent more than two years in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list [18] and is being translated into 45 languages. [19] The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, [20] and The American Booksellers Association named Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. [21]