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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL)...
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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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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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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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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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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (redirect from The Wizard of Oz (book))
illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and...
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Rebecca Makkai (category Stonewall Book Award winners)
and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Libby Book Award. Makkai...
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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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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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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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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 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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Guide" (PDF). KUAthletics.com. "2011 NCAA Record Book – Awards, p.8" (PDF). Retrieved August 3, 2017. "Kansas' Frank Mason III is AP Player of the Year, unanimous...
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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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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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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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Matthew Polly (redirect from American Shaolin (Book))
the New China | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. Retrieved 2021-03-08. "Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults | Awards & Grants". American...
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Alice McDermott (category American Book Award winners)
(1982) New York Times Notable Book of the Year That Night (1987) – Finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer...
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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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Rick Atkinson (category Kansas City Times people)
of Lawrence, Kansas, a researcher and clinician at the National Institutes of Health. They have two grown children. Atkinson's first book, written while...
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Gretchen Rubin (category Writers from Kansas City, Missouri)
blogger and speaker. Born Gretchen Anne Craft, Gretchen Rubin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was a lawyer at the firm of Craft, Fridkin...
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