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In 2015, the finalists were for the first time, all women. [1] Winners of the Thurber Prize have included authors from an array of diverse backgrounds, from The Daily Show hosts Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah to The New Yorker staff writers Calvin Trillin and Ian Frazier, as well as university professors Julie Schumacher and Harrison Scott Key. [2]
PS3622.U96 O52 2019. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. [ 1 ] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction [ 2 ...
List. Notable humorists include: Ada Roach [2] Alexander Posey [3] André Franquin [4] (1924–1997) French comic book author of Spirou & Fantasio and creator of the Marsupilami. Anita Loos [5] Anne Roumanoff [6] Aziz Nesin [7] Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), as a newspaper editor and printer, became one of America's first humorists, [8] most ...
Emily St. John Mandel (/ seɪntˈdʒɒn mænˈdɛl /; [2][3] née Fairbanks; [4] born 1979) is a Canadian novelist and essayist. [5][6] She has written six novels, including Station Eleven (2014), The Glass Hotel (2020), and Sea of Tranquility (2022). Station Eleven, which has been translated into 33 languages, [7] has been adapted into a ...
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
University of Arkansas. Period. 1979–2016. Genre. Novel, short story, poetry. Children. 3. Ellen Louise Gilchrist (February 20, 1935 – January 30, 2024) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan.
Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.
Katherine Anne Porter. Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.