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St. Francis College Literary Prize
The St. Francis College Literary Prize is a biennial literary award inaugurated in 2009. The prize of is presented to a mid-career author in honor of a third to fifth book of fiction. The winner is selected by a jury and invited to St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, for a speech. The SFC Literary Prize is meant to offer encouragement and significant financial support to a mid-career writer. The winner of the prize is announced from a whittled down shortlist during the Brooklyn Book Festival every other year in September. Winners and shortlist Blue Ribbon () = winner 2019 *Jennifer Clement, ''Gun Love'' *Tsitsi Dangarembga, ''This Mournable Body'' * Brandon Hobson, ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'' * Samantha Hunt, ''The Dark Dark'' * David Joy, ''The Line That Held Us'' *Danzy Senna, ''New People'' Jury: Chris Abani, Kate Christensen, Ron Currie 2017 *Amina Gautier, ''The Loss of All Lost Things'' *Mohsin Hamid, ''Exit West'' *Adam Haslett, ''Imagine Me Gone'' * Selah Sat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Dollar
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver dollar, divided it into 100 cents, and authorized the minting of coins denominated in dollars and cents. U.S. banknotes are issued in the form of Federal Reserve Notes, popularly called greenbacks due to their predominantly green color. The monetary policy of the United States is conducted by the Federal Reserve System, which acts as the nation's central bank. The U.S. dollar was originally defined under a bimetallic standard of (0.7735 troy ounces) fine silver or, from 1837, fine gold, or $20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett (born December 24, 1970) is an American fiction writer and journalist. His debut short story collection, ''You Are Not a Stranger Here'', and his second novel, '' Imagine Me Gone,'' were both finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017, he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Early life Haslett was born in Rye, New York and raised in Massachusetts and Oxfordshire, England. After graduating from Wellesley High School, he went on to receive a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a J.D. from Yale University. Career Haslett began his career as a writer with a fellowship at thFine Arts Work Centerin Provincetown, Massachusetts. He published his first short story, “Notes To My Biographer”, in Zoetrope Magazine. This is the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Brief History Of Seven Killings
''A Brief History of Seven Killings'' is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James (novelist), Marlon James. It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and its aftermath, through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s. Synopsis The novel has five sections, each named after a musical track and covering the events of a single day: *“Original Rockers: December 2, 1976” *“Survival (Bob Marley & The Wailers album), Ambush in the Night: December 3, 1976” *“Andy Gibb, Shadow Dancin’: February 15, 1979” *“White Lines (Don't Don't Do It), White Lines/Kids in America: August 14, 1985” *“Mega Banton, Sound Boy Killing: March 22, 1991” The first part of the novel is set in Kingston, Jamaica, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert held on 5 December 1976, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlon James (novelist)
Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: ''John Crow's Devil'' (2005), ''The Book of Night Women'' (2009), ''A Brief History of Seven Killings'' (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, '' Black Leopard, Red Wolf'' (2019), and ''Moon Witch, Spider King'' (2022). Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing."Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing" St. Francis College. Early life and education James was born in Kingston, |
David Gilbert (author)
David Gilbert (born 1967 in Paris) is an American author known for the novels '' & Sons'', ''The Normals'', and for '' Remote Feed'', a collection of short stories. Early life and education Gilbert's father was S. Parker Gilbert, the Chairman of Morgan Stanley during the 1980s and his grandfather was Seymour Parker Gilbert, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and the Agent General for Reparations to Germany, from October 1924 to May 1930. He grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, graduated from Middlebury College, and earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana. Career His published work includes the novels '' & Sons'', ''The Normals'', and '' Remote Feed'', a collection of short stories. His writings have appeared in periodicals such as '' GQ'', '' Harper's'' and ''The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born April 10, 1942) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. Biography Dybek, a second-generation Polish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods in the 1950s and early 1960s. He graduated from St. Rita of Cascia High School in 1959 and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has an MA in literature from Loyola University Chicago. Often compared to Saul Bellow and Theodore Dreiser for his unique portrayal of setting and landscapes, Dybek is "among the first writers of Polish descent (who write about the ethnic self) to receive national recognition." After teaching for more than 30 years at Western Michigan University, where he remains an Adjunct Professor of English and a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, Dybek became the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University where he teaches at the School of Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Casey
Maud Casey is an American novelist, and professor of creative writing at University of Maryland, College Park. Life She is the daughter of novelist John Casey. She graduated from University of Arizona with an M.F.A. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Award and honors *2015 St. Francis College Literary Prize The St. Francis College Literary Prize is a biennial literary award inaugurated in 2009. The prize of is presented to a mid-career author in honor of a third to fifth book of fiction. The winner is selected by a jury and invited to St. Francis Col ..., ''The Man Who Walked Away'' Bibliography *''The Shape of Things to Come'' (2001, HarperCollins, ) *''Genealogy: A Novel'' (2006, HarperCollins, ) *''Drastic'' (2008, HarperCollins, ) *''The Man Who Walked Away: A Novel'' (2014, Bloomsbury Publishing, ) References External links Living people 21st-century American novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sellout (novel)
''The Sellout'' is a 2015 novel by Paul Beatty published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the UK by Oneworld Publications in 2016. The novel takes place in and around Los Angeles, California, and muses about the state of racial relations in the U.S. today. In October 2016, it won the Booker Prize, making Beatty the first US writer to win that award. Background Published in 2015, ''The Sellout'' was the latest in Paul Beatty’s body of work that explores racial identity in the United States and the pervasive historical effects of racism. Beatty’s other notable works include ''The White Boy Shuffle'', ''Tuff'', and ''Slumberland''.Alter, Alexandra. "Paul Beatty Wins Man Booker Prize with 'the Sellout'." The New York Times, Oct 26, 2016. Beatty has stated his motivation for writing the novel was that " ewas broke". Although ''The Sellout'' was not written in response to any specific event, the novel was released during a time of racial reckoning surrounding multiple instances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty (born June 9, 1962) is an American author and an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Booker Prize for his novel '' The Sellout''. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker. Early life and education Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1962, Beatty received an MFA degree in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA degree in psychology from Boston University. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. Beatty is married to filmmaker Althea Wasow, sister of BlackPlanet co-founder Omar Wasow. Career In 1990, Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe (2008), ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Soft Skull Press, p. 45. . One of the prizes for winning the championship title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Steinke (novelist)
Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: ''The Fires'' (1999), ''Holy Skirts'' (2005), and ''Friendswood'' (2014). ''Holy Skirts'', a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Vogue'', '' O: the Oprah Magazine'', ''Bookforum'', and elsewhere. Steinke holds a BA from Valparaiso University, an MFA from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Until 2007, Steinke was Editor in Chief of ''The Literary Review ''The Literary Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1957. The biannual magazine is published internationally by Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. In addition to the publication of short stories, poems, an ...'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffery Renard Allen
Jeffery Renard Allen is an American poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist. He is the author of two collections of poetry, ''Harbors and Spirits'' (Moyer Bell, 1999) and ''Stellar Places'' (Moyer Bell, 2007), and four works of fiction, the novel ''Rails Under My Back'' (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), the story collection ''Holding Pattern'' (Graywolf Press, 2008) a second novel, '' Song of the Shank'' (Graywolf Press, 2014), and his most recent book, the short story collection “Fat Time and Other Stories” (Graywolf Press, 2023). He is also the co-author with Leon Ford of “An Unspeakble Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness, and Building A Better Future for My Son” (Atria, 2023). Early life Jeffery Renard Allen was born in 1962 in Chicago, and raised on the South Side of Chicago, a neighborhood that he says informs the setting of his first novel ''Rails Under My Back'' and the stories in his collection ''Holding Pattern''. For Allen, the 1980s in Chicago and other bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Litman
Ellen Litman (born 1973) is an American novelist. She received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in 2006. Formative years Born in Moscow, Russia, Litman emigrated with her parents in 1992 to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and earned a B.S. in Information Science. For six years she worked as a software developer in Baltimore, Maryland and Boston, Massachusetts. Literary career During the fall of 1998, Litman began to formally study writing. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2004 from Syracuse University. That same year, Litman was also chosen by the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing for one of its six fellowships, which ran between August and May in Madison, Wisconsin of that year. One of three fiction writers selected, she received a $25,000 stipend to support her writing. In September 2006, newspapers reported that Litman was one of six emerging writers to receive the Rona Jaffe Foundation's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
