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Brody, Shores, Hurston, Stonewall Prize Winners from ALA Midwinter Conference

Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Jewish Literature:
“Sacred Trash: the Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza” by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole (Schocken Books)

Honor Books:
“Jerusalem: the Biography” by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Alfred A. Knopf)
“MetaMaus” by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)
“Quiet Americans: Stories” by Erika Dreifus (Last Light Studio Books)

Louis Shores Award for Book Reviewing
Sarah L. Johnson, professor of library services at Eastern Illinois University and author of the blog Reading the Past and book review editor, The Historical Novels Review

2012 Zora Neale Hurston Award for Outstanding African-American Literature
Vanessa Irvin Morris, author of The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Street Literature (ALA Editions)

Stonewall Book Award for exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience
Bil Wright – “Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy”

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One Response to “Brody, Shores, Hurston, Stonewall Prize Winners from ALA Midwinter Conference”

  1. Sarah says:
    January 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Hot Darn!! Sarah Johnson certainly deserves her award! Love her blog and all of the work she does with the Historical Novel Society.

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