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As of 2014, he is the author of ten books. In 2015 his best known book is The Living Great Lakes, about his trip around the great lakes in a rickety ship. [2] This book appeared on the Michigan Bestseller Book List for October, 2014. [3] In 2014, in response to a pricing dispute between his publisher, MacMillan Press, and Amazon, Dennis set up ...
Gruen's awards include being the BookSense #1 pick for June 2006, the Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2007, the Cosmo Fun Fearless Fiction Award 2007, the BookBrowse Diamond Award Best Book 2006, the Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction 2007, the Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for fiction, the ALA/Alex Award 2007, the Carl Sandburg Award, 21st Century Fiction, 2007, and the ...
His collection of essays, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, [4] won the Heartland Prize for non-fiction, the American Book Award, [5] and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It has been translated into seven languages. A second collection of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, won the Great Lakes Book Award.
De Lint has received many awards, including the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for Moonlight and Vines, the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award, as well as the Great Lakes Great Books Award for his young adult novel The Blue Girl (Viking, 2004).
Schools that integrate Great Books materials into their curriculum help their students improve their critical thinking, reading comprehension, writing, and speaking and listening skills. The Foundation also sponsors programs in literacy and communication for underserved groups; these initiatives are an important part of the Foundation's mission ...
Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two ...
GLCA awards three literary prizes annually to a poet, a fiction writer, and a creative nonfiction writer to honor their first books. Winning authors receive all-expense-paid trips to several of GLCA's member colleges, at which they will be paid an honorarium of at least $500 to meet with students, give readings, and lead discussions.
In 2007 he published his debut novel, One for Sorrow, which won the 2008 Crawford Award, and was a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award as well as Logo TV's NewNowNext Awards. [1] His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing , was a 2008 James Tiptree Jr. Award finalist and a 2009 Nebula Awards finalist for Best Novel.