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William Dean Howells Medal
The William Dean Howells Medal is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, Music of the United States, music, and Visual art of the United States, art. Its fixed number .... Established in 1925 and named for William Dean Howells, it is given once every five years, generally in recognition of the most distinguished American novel published during that period, although some awards have been made to novelists for their general body of work. The recipient of the award is chosen, by a committee drawn from the membership of the Academy, from among those candidates nominated by a member of the Academy. Past winners External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:William Dean Howells Medal Of The American Academy Of Arts And Letters American fiction awards Awards established in 1925 1925 establishments in the United States Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Academy Of Arts And Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, Music of the United States, music, and Visual art of the United States, art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headquarters is in the Washington Heights, Manhattan, Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It shares Audubon Terrace, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux Arts/American Renaissance architecture, American Renaissance complex on Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway between 155th Street (Manhattan), West 155th and List of numbered streets in Manhattan, 156th Streets, with the Hispanic Society of America and Boricua College. The academy's galleries are open to the public on a published schedule. Exhibits include an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by contemporary artists nominated by its members, and an annual exhibition of works by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Confessions Of Nat Turner
''The Confessions of Nat Turner'' is a 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia in 1831. It is a fictional retelling based on ''The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia'', a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas R. Gray, in 1831. ''Time Magazine'' included the novel in its ''TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005''. Historical background The novel is based on an extant document, Turner's "confession" to his white lawyer, Thomas R. Gray. In the historical confessions, Turner claims to have been divinely inspired. Some scholars believe that mental illness may have driven Turner's actions. Others believe Turner was moved by religiosity. References Further reading * Clarke, John Henrik, ed. ''William Styron's Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Country
''Shadow Country'' is a novel by Peter Matthiessen, published by Random House in 2008. Subtitled ''A New Rendering of the Watson Legend'', it is a Fiction#Semi-fiction, semi-fictional account of the life of Scottish-American Edgar Watson#Edgar Watson, Edgar "Bloody" Watson (1855–1910), a real Florida sugar cane Planter (American South), planter and alleged outlaw who was killed by a Posse comitatus, posse of his neighbors in the remote Ten Thousand Islands region of southwest Florida. Matthiessen revised, condensed, and combined his three previously published novels about Edgar Watson to create this single-volume novel, which is divided into three sections that conform to the three original books. ''Shadow Country'' won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008"National Book Awards – 2008" Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine ''The Paris Review'', he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both National Book Award for Nonfiction, nonfiction (''The Snow Leopard'', 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and National Book Award for Fiction, fiction (''Shadow Country'', 2008)."Washington Post Obituary" Obituary, Washington Post, April 6, 2014. He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably ''The Snow Leopard'' (1978) and Native Americans i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Fire (Hazzard Novel)
''The Great Fire'' (2003) is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and a Miles Franklin literary award (2004). The novel was Hazzard's first since '' The Transit of Venus'', published in 1980. Overview The novel commences in Japan in 1947, and subsequently takes in Hong Kong, England and New Zealand. Written in the third-person narrative, the novel principally follows its protagonist, the decorated British war veteran Aldred Leith, who is travelling through post-war Asia to write a book. At times the narrator follows Peter Exley, an Australian friend of Leith's who is investigating Japanese war crimes, and Helen Driscoll, an Australian teenager with whom Leith falls in love while billeted in Japan. ''The New Yorker'' wrote of the novel: Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating. Hierarchies of feeling, perception, and taste abound in her writing, and this novel—her first in more than twenty years—takes on the very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held U.S. citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel '' The Bay of Noon'' was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her 2003 novel '' The Great Fire'' won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal."National Book Awards – 2003" website; retrieved 27 March 2012. Hazzard also wrote nonfiction, including two books based on her experiences working at the |
Underworld (DeLillo Novel)
''Underworld'' is a 1997 novel by American writer Don DeLillo. The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to trace the history of the baseball that won the New York Giants the pennant in 1951, and encompasses numerous subplots drawn from American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Described as both postmodernist and a reaction to postmodernism, it examines themes of nuclear proliferation, waste, and the contribution of individual lives to the course of history. A best-seller that was nominated for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, ''Underworld'' is often regarded as DeLillo's supreme achievement. In 2006, a survey of eminent authors and critics conducted by ''The New York Times'' named ''Underworld '' as the runner-up for the best work of American fiction of the past 25 years, behind only Toni Morrison's '' Beloved''. Background Following the publication of the well-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of ''White Noise (novel), White Noise'' brought him widespread recognition and the National Book Award for fiction. He followed this in 1988 with ''Libra (novel), Libra'', a novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. DeLillo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for ''Mao II'', about terrorism and the media's scrutiny of writers' private lives, and the William Dean Howells Medal for ''Underworld (novel), Underworld'', a historical novel that ranges in time from the dawn of the Cold War to the birth of the Internet. He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbit At Rest
''Rabbit at Rest'' is a 1990 novel by John Updike. It is the fourth and final novel in a tetralogy, succeeding '' Rabbit, Run''; '' Rabbit Redux''; and '' Rabbit Is Rich''. A related novella, ''Rabbit Remembered'', was published in 2001. ''Rabbit at Rest'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award. Plot summary This novel is part of the series that follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990. ''Rabbit at Rest'' focuses on the years 1988–89. Harry, nearly 40 years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city, has retired with Janice, his wife of 33 years, to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, dangerously overweight and desperate for reasons to keep on living. Unable to stop nibbling corn chips, macadamia nuts and other junk food, Rabbit nearly dies after a heart attack while sunfishing with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Judy. In a "redemp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in ''The New Yorker'' starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for ''The New York Review of Books''. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels ''Rabbit, Run''; ''Rabbit Redux''; ''Rabbit Is Rich''; ''Rabbit at Rest''; and the novella ''Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Rabbit Angstrom, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and ''Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bathgate
''Billy Bathgate'' is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 1990 William Dean Howells Medal, and was the runner-up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize References External links {{E. L. Doctorow 1989 American novels American crime novels Novels set in the Bronx < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)
''So Long, See You Tomorrow'' is a novel by American author William Maxwell. It was first published in ''The New Yorker'' magazine in October 1979 in two parts. It was published as a book the following year by Alfred A. Knopf. It was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, and its first paperback edition won a 1982 National Book Award."National Book Awards – 1982" . Retrieved 2012-03-11. ''So Long'' won the 1982 award for paperback fiction. (From 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
