Which of the following received the American Book Award for the novel The Tunnel: Pauline Kael or William H. Gass?
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Pauline Kael Pauline Kael ( ; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for "The New Yorker" magazine from 1968 to 1991. Kael was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, her opinions often contrary to those of her contemporaries. She is regarded as one of the most influential American film critics of her day.
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William H. Gass William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, "A Temple of Texts" (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel "The Tunnel" received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel "Middle C" won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.
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Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship.
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Patricia Wells Patricia Wells (born 5 November 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a cookbook author and teacher who divides her time between Paris and Provence. Her book "Patricia Wells at Home in Provence" (1996) won the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. Wells is the only American and the only woman to be a restaurant critic for a major French publication, "L'Express" (1988–1991). She was also a restaurant critic for the "International Herald Tribune" from 1980 until 2007.
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Ted Williams Tunnel The Ted Williams Tunnel is a highway tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts; it is the third in the city to travel under Boston Harbor, with the Sumner Tunnel and the Callahan Tunnel. It carries the final segment of Interstate 90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) from South Boston towards its eastern terminus at Route 1A in East Boston, slightly beyond Logan International Airport. The tunnel is named after the former Boston Red Sox baseball player and U.S. Marine air corps veteran Ted Williams.
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Esther M. Conwell Esther Marley Conwell (May 23, 1922 – November 16, 2014) was a pioneering American chemist and physicist who studied properties of semiconductors and organic conductors, especially electron transport. She is best known for the Conwell-Weisskopf theory which elucidates how electrons travel through semiconductors, an accomplishment that helped revolutionize modern computing.
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Ivar Giaever Ivar Giaever (Norwegian: "Giæver" , ] ; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in superconductors". Giaever is an institute professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a professor-at-large at the University of Oslo, and the president of Applied Biophysics.
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Samuel Hynes Samuel Hynes (born August 29, 1924) is an author. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "The Soldiers' Tale" in 1998. Samuel Hynes was born in Chicago. He attended the University of Minnesota and Columbia University.
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James Baldwin James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, for instance "The Fire Next Time" (1963), "No Name in the Street" (1972), and "The Devil Finds Work" (1976). An unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House", was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro".
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Michael O. Tunnell Michael O. Tunnell (born 1950) is an American children's writer and educator. He is a teacher of children's literature at Brigham Young University (BYU). He has published several books on children's literature, especially on the work of Lloyd Alexander. Tunnell is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Karen Salyer McElmurray Karen Salyer McElmurray (born 1956, Topeka, Kansas) is an American writer of literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir. She is the author of "The Motel of the Stars: A Novel "(Sarabande Books, 2008), "Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey "(University of Georgia Press, 2006), and "Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven" (University of Georgia Press, 2004), as well as numerous essays and short stories. McElmurray was Editor’s Pick by Oxford American in November 2009. She was the recipient of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction (2003), and the Lillie Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing (2001).
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Will Kostakis William Kostakis (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian author and journalist. In high school, he won the "Sydney Morning Herald" Young Writer of the Year prize for a short story called 'Bing Me'. He went on to sign his first book deal in his final year of high school. His second novel, "The First Third" won the 2014 Inky Awards, and was shortlisted for the and Prime Minister's Literary Awards. His latest novel "The Sidekicks" was released in 2016, and has since been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards.
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Colin Sargent Colin W. Sargent, Ph.D., is an American author, magazine publisher, and playwright. His best-known works include his debut novel "Museum of Human Beings", included in the National American Indian Heritage Month Booklist, which delves into the heart-wrenching life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea; the play "100 Percent American Girl;" and poetry books "Luftwaffe Snowshoes", "Blush", and "Undertow." His novel "The Boston Castrato" was published in 2016 by Barbican Press of London and Hull, UK. According to London's "Morning Star": "An extraordinary literary expression of the American nightmare."
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Herbert Spiegel Herbert Spiegel (June 29, 1914 – December 15, 2009) was an American psychiatrist who popularized therapeutic hypnosis as a mainstream medical treatment for patients suffering from pain, anxiety and addictions. He also gained notoriety for his treatment of the woman known as Sybil, whose case became the subject of a book, 1976 television miniseries and 2007 television movie.
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Paul Watkins (novelist) Paul Watkins (born January 1, 1964) is an American author who currently lives with his wife, Cathy, and two children, Emma and Oliver, in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a teacher and writer-in-residence at The Peddie School, and formerly taught at Lawrenceville School. He attended the Dragon School, Oxford, Eton and Yale University. He received a B.A. from Yale and was a University Fellow at Syracuse University, New York. His recollections of his time at the Dragon School and Eton form his autobiographical work "Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England" (1993). He wrote his first book, "Night Over Day Over Night" (1988), when he was 16 years old.
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The Genocides The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel written by American author Thomas M. Disch. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
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Hillel Schwartz (historian) Hillel Schwartz (born 1948) is an American cultural historian, poet and translator.
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William – an Englishman William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally published by Skeffington & Son before being reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999. Described as 'a passionate assertion of the futility of war' by The Spectator, "William - an Englishman" won the first Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse Anglais prize in 1920.
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Louis Begley Louis Begley (born October 6, 1933) is a Jewish American novelist. He is best known for writing the semi-autobiographical Holocaust novel, "Wartime Lies" (1991), and the "Schmidt" trilogy: "About Schmidt" (1996), "Schmidt Delivered" (2000) and "Schmidt Steps Back" (2012).
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Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel "The Mosquito Coast," which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name.
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Joyce Dyer Joyce Dyer (born July 20, 1947) is a U.S. writer of nonfiction and memoirs whose most recent memoir, "Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood", tells the story of the author's attempt to remember the first five years of her life growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in Akron called Old Wolf Ledge (known to residents as "Goosetown"), famous for its glacial formations, breweries, and cereal mills. "Goosetown" is the prequel to "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town", her book about the decades when Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio. Earlier memoirs were "In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey" and "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town." She has also edited two collections of essays, "Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers" and "From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines." Her first book, "The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings", was a scholarly study of Kate Chopin, a turn-of-the-century American writer. Joyce Dyer is Professor Emerita of English at Hiram College, where she continues to teach occasional courses in creative writing. Her teaching and writing specialties are essay and hybrid nonfiction. Dyer's biography is included in "Contemporary Authors", volume 146, and in the New Revision Series, volume 91.
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Miriam Winter Miriam Winter (Maria Orlowski) (June 2, 1933 – July 19, 2014) was born in Łódź, Poland to Tobiasz (Tuvyeh) Winter and Majta Laja (Leah) Winter, (maiden name Kohn). She is perhaps best known for her authorship of "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood during and after World War II", which explores not only her survival of the Holocaust as a 'hidden child' but also the psychological toll of keeping her identity hidden, even to herself, in post World War II Poland.