Which author was the recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, Cynthia Ozick or Robert Creeley?
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Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Shoshana Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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Robert Creeley Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Robert Frenay Robert Frenay (1946-January 27, 2007) was an American author and lecturer who described and advocated a green or ecologically conscious approach to technological development and development of human civilization.
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Edna Kenton Edna Kenton (March 17, 1876 — February 28, 1954) was an American writer and literary critic. Kenton is best remembered for her 1928 work "The Book of Earths," which collected various unusual and controversial theories about a hollow earth, Atlantis, and similar matters.
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John Robert Colombo John Robert Colombo, CM (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian author, editor, and poet. He has published over 200 titles, including major anthologies and reference works.
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Rella Braithwaite Rella Aylestock Braithwaite (born 1923) is a Canadian author.
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Bob Griffiths (writer) Bob Griffiths (Henry Robert Griffiths) (born April 16, 1938) is an author, playwright, and professional speaker.
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Robert Moore (poet) Robert Moore (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, actor, director, playwright, and professor. He has written over a dozen plays that have been performed across Canada, and he has published three books of poetry: "Figuring Ground" (2009), "Museum Absconditum" (2006), and "So Rarely in Our Skins" (2002). "So Rarely in Our Skins" was a finalist for the 6th Annual Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award and, along with his two subsequent books, was long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry. Moore’s poetry has been published in literary journals such as "Descant", "The Fiddlehead", "Wascana Review", "Ink Magazine", "Canadian Author", "The New Quarterly", "Maissoneuve", "Pottersfield Portfolio", "Gaspereau Review", "Prairie Fire", "Quadrant Magazine", and "Contemporary Verse II". He has been the recipient of the "Edmonton Journal" Literary Award for poetry (1987) as well as a finalist for the "Pottersfield Portfolio" Short Poetry Award (1997) and The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize (2001).
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Cynthia Holz Cynthia Holz (born 1950 in New York City, United States) is an American-born Canadian author. She graduated in English in 1971 from Queens College, City University of New York. She moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1976 while working as the Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine. She began publishing short stories in 1980 in literary journals and anthologies such as The Malahat Review and The Fiddlehead. She has written essays and book reviews for The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, Quill & Quire and The National Post. She has published five novels and one collection of short stories. Her latest novel, "Benevolence", was released in Spring 2011 by Knopf Canada.
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Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley (July 17, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
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Helena Znaniecki Lopata Helena Znaniecki Lopata (October 1, 1925 - February 12, 2003) was a Polish-born American sociologist, author and researcher.
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James Reaney James Crerar Reaney, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary award, the Governor General's Award, three times and received the Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama for both his poetry and his drama.
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Angie Debo Angie Elbertha Debo (January 30, 1890 – February 21, 1988), was an American historian who wrote 13 books and hundreds of articles about Native American and Oklahoma history. After a long career marked by difficulties (ascribed both to her gender and to the controversial content of some of her books), she was acclaimed as Oklahoma's "greatest historian" and acknowledged as "an authority on Native American history, a visionary, and an historical heroine in her own right."
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Sheridan Morley Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941, Ascot, Berkshire − 16 February 2007, London) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster. He was the official biographer of Sir John Gielgud and wrote biographies of many other theatrical figures he had known, including Noël Coward. Nicholas Kenyon called him a "cultural omnivore" who was "genuinely popular with people".
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Ruth Montgomery Ruth Shick Montgomery (June 11, 1912 – June 10, 2001) was a journalist with a long career as a reporter and syndicated columnist in Washington, DC. Later in life she became a self-proclaimed psychic and author of numerous books on occult and New Age subjects, whose predictions regarding the "polar shift of 1999" heads a long list of attempts to foretell the future. She was a biographer of alleged paranormal medium Jeane Dixon and a protégée of Arthur Ford who posited unsupported claims that he (like Edgar Cayce) could access the Akashic Records (or database) of the Universe.
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Robert P. Arthur Robert Peebles "Bob" Arthur (born 1943) is primarily a poet, but also a novelist, a short-story writer, a playwright, a critic, a director, and a professor. He has written and published fourteen books of poetry and plays, two novels, and a book of short stories, and has had nineteen poem/plays, plays in verse, and musical programs featuring poetry produced. He is known nationally and internationally for taking poetry to the stage. He has written approximately 1,500 articles on the theatre for newspapers and magazines and produced numerous poetry shows, as well as poetry readings. A finalist for Poet Laureate of Virginia in 2008 and 2010, he remains best known for his book of poems, "Hymn to the Chesapeake," the best-selling book in the history of Road Publishers. Three of his works have been produced as dance suites in poetry. In addition, he has ghost written two novels, three biographies, and a history of music.
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Louis F. Burns Louis Francis Burns (January 2, 1920 – May 20, 2012) (Osage) was an American historian, author, and teacher, a leading expert on the history, mythology and culture of the Osage Nation. Burns wrote more than a dozen books and scholarly works on the Osage people. In 2002 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
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Ruth Moore Ruth Moore (1903–1989) was an important Maine author of the twentieth century. She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state. Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant literary figure on the national stage during her career. Her second novel "Spoonhandle" spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the company of George Orwell, W. Somerset Maugham and Robert Penn Warren. In her time, Moore was hailed as "New England's only answer to Faulkner".
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Robert Herrick (novelist) Robert Welch Herrick (April 21, 1868 – December 23, 1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists. His novels deal with the turbulence of industrialized society and the turmoil it can create in sensitive, isolated people. He was also briefly acting-Governor of the United States Virgin Islands in 1935.
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Cynthia Propper Seton Cynthia Propper Seton (October 11, 1926 – October 23, 1982) was an American writer and feminist. Following a 12-year career as a columnist for "The Berkshire Eagle" in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she began writing essays and fiction, producing five novels and three essay collections. Her third novel, "A Fine Romance", was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award for Fiction.
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Carol Bishop-Gwyn Carol Bishop-Gwyn is a Canadian writer and dance academic, best known as the author of "The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca", a biography of Celia Franca published in 2011. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2012 Governor General's Awards, and for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize.
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Clare Vanderpool Clare Vanderpool (born 1965) is an American children's book author living in Wichita, Kansas. Her first book, "Moon Over Manifest", won the 2011 Newbery Medal, becoming the first debut author to achieve the feat in thirty years. She is also the first Kansas native to win the Newbery Medal. Clare is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Her book "Navigating Early" was named a 2014 Printz Honor Book.