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Author and historian Phillip Hoose’s true story about a brave African-American teen who defied Jim Crow laws in March 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman in Montgomery, AL, is the recipient of the 2009 National Book Award in the category for Young People’s Literature.
Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
PORTLAND, Maine - Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honour.
Maine author Phillip Hoose, 62, said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
Newton author, UMass-Dartmouth professor Alan Hirshfeld pens mathematical pot-boiler about the life and science of Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer Archimedes.
A local author has won a prestigious book award. “Anita Stewart's Canada - The Food, The Recipes, The Stories,” by Elora food activist Anita Stewart has won a gold medal in the English Canadian Food Culture Category of the 12th annual Canadian Culinary Book Awards.
Pacific Book Review Named Pastoral Counselor and Christian living writer Reece Manley with its Book of the Month designation. [PR.com - November 19, 2009]
Among those who didn't win was an Allentown native who was in the running for the young literature honor. Colum McCann's ''Let the Great World Spin,'' a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.
The National Book Award for fiction for 2009 has gone to Irish author Colm McCann who lives in New York for his book "Let the Great World Spin." The book is set in New York in 1974 when a French tightrope walker Philippe Petit walked between the two towers of the Twin Towers, creating a massive publicity stunt.
By Ben Steelman Ben.Steelman@StarNewsOnline.com “The Long Division” is the follow-up novel from Derek Nikitas, who earned his MFA at the University of North Carolina Wilmington back in 2000 and went on to win an Edgar nomination for his 2007 crime saga, “Pyres.”
Yes, there have been some great moments in Bills history. Not so many lately, though. Author Marv Levy was the head coach in Buffalo for many of the franchise's most memorable events, including those four successive trips to the Super Bowl. That they all ended in losses and that the Bills have yet to win the big game, continue to define the city and the team.
'Under the Dome' Author: Stephen King Data: Scribner, 1,074 pages, $35 read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota author has won a National Outdoor Book Award.
Professor of Literary Arts Keith Waldrop has won the National Book Award for poetry this year for his book “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.”...
Boulder, CO-based author Nancy Dutton announces the new Book of Animal Poetry, poems and haikus about cats, dogs and horses she has known and owned.
Professor of Literary Arts Keith Waldrop has won the National Book Award for poetry this year for his book “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy,” the National Book Foundation announced last week at a ceremony in New York....
