The Indies Choice Award winners (and
related ABA-selected E.B. White Read-Aloud Award winners) were named,
for formal presentation at BEA. Additionally, indie bookstore benefactor James
Patterson will be honored with the Indie Champion Award. The winning books and
authors are:
Adult Fiction
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books)
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books)
Adult Debut
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
Adult Nonfiction
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (Viking)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (Viking)
Young Adult
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (Griffin)
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (Griffin)
Middle Reader
Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell (Illus.) (Candlewick)
Picture Book
The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel)
The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.) (Philomel)
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died at home in Mexico
City on Thursday, following complications from pneumonia. Among the many
appreciations of his work and life are these from Michiko
Kakutani and Hector
Tobar.
Hillary Clinton's
June 10 memoir has a title -- HARD CHOICES and a final
jacket: "All of us face hard choices in our lives," she
writes. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle
them shape the people we become."
Author Jesmyn Ward will join
the faculty of Tulane University on July 1 as the first to hold the Paul and
Debra Gibbons Professorship. In the new position, she will also will work
closely with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South and the Newcomb College
Institute. Ward currently lives in DeLisle, Miss. and works as assistant
professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama.
Colm Toibin
will take
over as chairman of the PEN
World Voices Festival of International Literature starting in
2015. Salman Rushdie has led the festival since it was founded in 2005.
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