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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.
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.
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.
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.
Local hiking author Mike White, 57, of Reno, has two scheduled book signings this weekend: one at Borders on Friday and another at Barnes and Nobles on Saturday.
The winner of this year's National Book Award for nonfiction tells the story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, who rose from humble means to amass a vast fortune, build the country's largest fleet of steamships and control a railroad empire.
Best-selling author Lilian Harry will be attending a book fair in Callington Town Hall on Saturday, November 28, where she will be signing copies of her latest books.
A couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to pick up a book from local Incline Village author Diane Inman. She had called and asked me if I would like to review a book of hers entitled, "The Fine Art of Angling." Inman had produced a book by gathering 10 of the most prestigious modern-day sporting (angling) artists in the country. In the book she tells us all about the artist and their work ...
Irish novelist Colum McCann has won the prestigious 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” a remarkable meditation on September 11, seen though the prism of an earlier decade.
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.
Miss some of the weekend's book reviews? We're back again to catch you up with a book review round-up of the newest in fine literature and in... well, Al Roker murder mysteries.
TRUCKEE, Calif. - A couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to pick up a book from local Incline Village author Diane Inman. She had called and asked me if I would like to review a book of hers entitled, "The Fine Art of Angling." Inman had produced a book by gathering 10 of the most prestigious modern-day sporting (angling) artists in the country. In the book she tells us all about the ...
Not since judges of the Whitbread Prize shrugged off accusations of sentimentality to name Ted Hughes as the posthumous winner in 1998 has there been a dead author in line for a major book award.
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