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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."
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 honor.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Portland, Maine, author has won a National Book Award for his book about a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman helped set the stage for desegregation of public transportation in the South.
In a special National Book Foundation online vote, author Flannery O’Connor edged out William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon and other leading writers.
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.
TORONTO - Naomi Klein says her next book will examine the environmental movement that has galvanized young people the same way the anti-corporate movement did 10 years ago.
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 ...
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.
Prosecutors want a Canadian publisher who penned a book about Drew Peterson to stop playing reporter. Derek Armstrong, the operator of Kunati Publishing and the author of the account "Drew Peterson Exposed," invoked journalistic privilege when the state police contacted him about testifying before a grand jury in November 2008.
Prosecutors want a Canadian publisher who penned a book about Drew Peterson to stop playing reporter. Derek Armstrong, the operator of Kunati Publishing and the author of the account "Drew Peterson Exposed," invoked journalistic privilege when the state police contacted him about testifying before a grand jury in November 2008.
Prosecutors want a Canadian publisher who penned a book about Drew Peterson to stop playing reporter. Derek Armstrong, the operator of Kunati Publishing and the author of the account "Drew Peterson Exposed," invoked journalistic privilege when the state police contacted him about testifying before a grand jury in November 2008.
AUSTRALIAN poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.
AUSTRALIAN poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.
AUSTRALIAN poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.
AUSTRALIAN poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.
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