Columbus-born authors included in nominees for 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards
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Thirty Ohio authors have been nominated for the 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards, to be announced in July.
The authors — all from, living in or writing about Ohio — created works in fiction, poetry, juvenile literature, middle grade/young adult literature and nonfiction as well as works about Ohio or Ohioans.
Beginning June 1, the Ohioana Library, sponsor of the awards, will profile the writers online (Ohioana.org). A readers’ choice poll will begin June 15. The awards ceremony for the winners will take place Oct. 26 at the Ohio Statehouse.
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The nominees and their books:
Fiction
Jesse Bethea, “Fellow Travellers”
Anthony Doerr, “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Genevieve Gornichec, “The Witch’s Heart”
Alison Stine, “Trashlands”
Laura Maylene Walter, “Body of Stars”
Nonfiction
Hanif Abdurraqib, “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance”
Amy Butcher, “Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America”
Wil Haygood, “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World”
Susan Orlean, “On Animals”
Brandy Schillace, “Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul”
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About Ohio or an Ohioan
Anneliese Abbott, “Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture”
Brian Alexander, “The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town”
Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney, “To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876”
Brian Broome, “Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir”
Jeff Shesol, “Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War”
Poetry
Yetunde E. Ahn, née Emily Spencer, “East Walnut Hills”
Conor Bracken, “The Enemy of My Enemy is Me”
Manuel Iris, “The Parting Present / Lo que se irá”
Joey S. Kim, “Body Facts”
Felicia Zamora, “I Always Carry My Bones”
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Juvenile Literature
Marcy Campbell and Corinna Luyken, “Something Good”
Keila V. Dawson and Alleanna Harris, “Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book”
Amanda Gorman and Loren Long. “Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem”
Andrea Wang and Jason Chin, “Watercress”
Anne Wynter and Oge Mora, “Everybody in the Red Brick Building”
Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature
Rae Carson, “Any Sign of Life”
Sharon M. Draper, “Out of My Heart”
Brendan Kiely, “The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege”
Andrea Wang, “The Many Meanings of Meilan”
Jasmine Warga, “The Shape of Thunder”
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