American Book Award

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American Book Award

HONOR

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Cheever Author 27-May-1912 18-Jun-1982 The Enormous Radio

Sandra Cisneros Author 20-Dec-1954 The House on Mango Street

James Fallows Journalist 2-Aug-1949 Atlantic Monthly

William H. Gass Novelist 30-Jul-1924 The Tunnel

Stephen Jay Gould Biologist 10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist

Richard Howard Poet 13-Oct-1929 Untitled Subjects

John Irving Novelist 2-Mar-1942 The World According to Garp

Donald Johanson Anthropologist 28-Jun-1943 Discovered "Lucy" fossils

Justin Kaplan Author 5-Sep-1925 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

Maxine Hong Kingston Author 27-Oct-1940 The Woman Warrior

Edmund Morris Author 27-May-1940 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Wright Morris Novelist 6-Jan-1910 29-Apr-1998 The Field of Vision

Gloria Naylor Novelist 25-Jan-1950 The Women of Brewster Place

Joe Sacco Cartoonist 2-Oct-1960 Palestine

William Steig Cartoonist 14-Nov-1907 3-Oct-2003 Shrek, The New Yorker

William Styron Novelist 11-Jun-1925 31-Oct-2006 The Confessions of Nat Turner

John Updike Novelist 18-Mar-1932 27-Jan-2009 Rabbit, Run

Douglas Woolf Novelist 23-Mar-1922 18-Jan-1992 Fade Out

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