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Art Beat talks to Phillip Hoose, who last week won the National Book Award for young people's literature for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice."
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.
Oklahoma author and attorney Debra West has announced the publication of her book, "How To Wage War Against A Flu Pandemic" ($16.99/All Trails Publishing). The 112-page book is a how-to manual for preparation and planning, as well as caring for someone with the flu.
On an August morning in 1974, a man named Philippe Petit steps off of the roof of the World Trade Center's South Tower and onto a tightrope. The act is the backdrop to Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel, "Let the Great World Spin."
Bhopal, Nov 27 : An author of a book describing the concept of marriage as 'a moral rape' had a tough time on the release function when members of a cultural group publicly humiliated him, here on Friday.
In the newly released Hollywood Moon, the last of Joseph Wambaugh's trilogy chronicling goings-on in a Hollywood police station, the author balances absurd situations with the horrible behavior of people who have little regard for others.
DARTMOUTH — Author D.G. Stern will be signing his book "Something Fishy" on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the DeMello School PTO Book Fair, Dartmouth St., Dartmouth and at Barnes and Noble, Dartmouth Towne Center, 392 State Road (Route...
The Joliet Herald News reports: Will County prosecutors are pressing the author of a book on Drew Peterson to turn over his taped interviews, arguing they are not protected by journalistic privilege. Derek Armstrong, author of "Drew Peterson Exposed" had invoked the privilege when state police contacted him about testifying before a grand jury in November 2008. Prosecutors filed a motion this ...
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.
In a special National Book Foundation online vote, author Flannery O’Connor edged out William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon and other leading writers.
Lanette Gruits-Sheppard of Centerpoint knew God's protection personally before she ever wrote a book about it.
Anthony Horowitz -- 54, dark-haired, dynamic, funny, and just now, slightly manic -- is good at entertaining boys. In his books, yes, but also in his book talks, which he does a lot of and works hard at, because to be a mass-market children's author these days, you have to be also a bit of a...
Paul Auster's latest suffers from a surfeit of clashing voices and lack of credible characters, says Edward Docx Paul Auster is a writer with many skills: a disarming directness of style, a subtle ability to render subtle psychology, a connoisseur's feel for the novel form – its limits and its play – and much besides. Invisible is the story of Adam Walker who, while a student at Columbia ...
Alaska shaped Sarah Palin – but her understanding of anything that goes on beyond the frontier state is alarmingly uninformed, says Patricia Williams Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's memoir needs recipes in the worst way. Admittedly, that's an absurd hook for a book that's supposedly about politics, but Going Rogue uses food, food and more food to create scenes of familial warmth and Mama ...
Less would have been more in Stephen King's latest, says a weary Euan Ferguson Under the Cosh, this may as well have been called, which is perhaps a little unfair, but you didn't have to speed-read it inside a week. It's not that this is a bad book. It is, in many ways, a good book: King's take on the America of Bush and 9/11, a nation on the verge of environmental and moral collapse. But it is ...
