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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 ...
To Conquer the Air: J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, 2000; [4] Great Lakes Book Award. [5] In the Wall Street Journal, the historian William Rosen listed To Conquer the Air as one of "Five Best" books about invention. [6] The Man He Became: Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2008); [7] runner-up, Chautauqua Book Prize ...
Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed.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.
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.
His second novel, Of Song and Water (2007) was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award. Both novels earned wide distribution in French and German translations, and The Vanishing Moon was later published as a Harvest Book, the perennial literary series from Harcourt.
Strayed's first book, the novel Torch, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2006 to positive critical reviews. [17] Torch was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and selected by The Oregonian as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. [18]
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 ...
The book received the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award in 2004. [1] The novel has since been nominated for, and received, a number of other awards. [2] The hand lettering on the cover is by Billy Kelly. The book is recommended for grades 5–8. A 7-hour long audiobook version, narrated by Danielle Ferland, has been produced.