Nancy Rawles is an American

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, and

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. She is a 2006 recipient of the

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Life

Rawles grew up in

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. She graduated from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

with a degree in journalism. Rawles studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson of the Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at

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under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.

Awards

In 2005, ''Booklist'' included ''My Jim'' on their list of year's the best "Adult Books for Young Adults". In 2007, Rawles received an Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction.

Works

Novels

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Criticism

References

External links

"Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'", ''NPR'', Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005
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Writers from Los Angeles 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists City University of Seattle alumni 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Living people American Book Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub