The State of Kansas Notable Book Awards are presented annually for fifteen notable books created by writers, illustrators or book artists who are Kansans...
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Alex Grecian (category Inkpot Award winners)
also the recipient of an Inkpot Award in 2018 and of the Kansas Notable Book Awards from the State Library of Kansas for The Yard, The Black Country,...
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Thomas Fox Averill (category Writers from Topeka, Kansas)
Rode, have won wide acclaim in Kansas and throughout the United States. He is a two-time winner of Kansas Notable Book Awards. Averill is a writer-in-residence...
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And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado, which won a Kansas Notable Book Award in 2011. Donahue first became interested in the...
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state of Kansas. Heartland was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2018 and a 2019 recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award. Smarsh...
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Ben Lerner (category Believer Book Award winners)
2019 – Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Winner, Kansas Notable Book Award 2019 – Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 2020 –...
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Hero of the Empire (category Politician book stubs)
newspaper companies worldwide and was a winner of the 2017 Kansas Notable Book Awards. Millard's third book received praise from many news organizations such as...
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Sarah Smarsh (category University of Kansas alumni)
United States; the book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize and a 2019 recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award. She Come By It...
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Kansas (/ˈkænzəs/ KAN-zəss) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma...
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moved to the State Library of Kansas. Programs at the Kansas Center for the Book are: the Kansas Notable Book Awards, Kansas Reads to Preschoolers, and the...
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The Kansas City Chiefs are an American football team in history based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL)...
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multiple-year winners. A number of other Kansas State players have received other All-American recognition or notable awards, including the following (second-...
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Bienvenido Santos (category American Book Award winners)
Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Award from the Before...
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The Sympathizer (section Decade/Century Book Lists)
fiction of 2015". The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New...
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The Kansas Jayhawks, commonly referred to as simply KU or Kansas, are the athletic teams that represent the University of Kansas. KU is one of three schools...
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Notable book burnings – the public burning of books for ideological reasons – have taken place throughout history. About 600 BC, Jeremiah of Anathoth wrote...
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Charles Yu (category National Book Award winners)
Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas — and a runner up for the Campbell Memorial Award. The book was also optioned by film director and writer...
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Sunflower Showdown (redirect from Kansas–Kansas State football rivalry)
50miles Kansas State Kansas The Sunflower Showdown is the series of athletic contests between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas athletic...
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Tulsa King (redirect from Kansas City (TV series))
Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards: 'Yellowjackets,' 'The Boys' Lead All Nominees with 14 Nominations". Awards Daily. Archived from the original...
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The Kansas City Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1955 to 1967, having previously played in Philadelphia...
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Keith Waldrop (category National Book Award winners)
National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy. Bernard Keith Waldrop was born in Emporia, Kansas, to Arthur...
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University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan...
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Thomas Frank (category American book editors)
book What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) earned him nationwide and international recognition. In October 2005, Frank received the Eugene Debs Award...
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Raina Telgemeier (category Eisner Award winners for Best Writer/Artist)
graphic memoir". Telgemeier's work has won several awards and nominations, including five Eisner Awards, and has been included on many lists of recommended...
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former news reporter. He won the 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his novel The Nix. In September 2023,...
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Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County...
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Mel Robbins (redirect from The Five Second Rule (book))
Habit, as well as host of The Mel Robbins Podcast. Robbins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in North Muskegon, Michigan. She attended Dartmouth...
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William Stafford (poet) (category National Book Award winners)
Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970. Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, the oldest of three children in a highly literate family. During the Depression...
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Elizabeth C. Bunce (category Novelists from Kansas)
Kids’ Reading List, and four of Bunce's novels have been awarded Kansas Notable Book Awards. A full-time writer since earning her degree in English and...
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Chris Cooper (category Male actors from Kansas City, Missouri)
nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in A Doll's House, Part 2. Cooper was born on July 9, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri...
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