The author of the short story collection "Jesus' Son" also wrote a book which won the National Book Award for Fiction featuring a protagonist by which name?
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Tree of Smoke Tree of Smoke is a 2007 novel by American author Denis Johnson which won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is about a man named Skip Sands who joins the CIA in 1965, and begins working in Vietnam during the American involvement there. The time frame of the novel is from 1963 to 1970, with a coda set in 1983. One of the protagonists of "Tree of Smoke" is Bill Houston, who was the main character in Johnson's 1983 debut novel "Angels".
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Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection "Jesus' Son" (1992) and his novel "Tree of Smoke" (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also wrote plays, poetry, journalism, and non-fiction.
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Believer Book Award Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by "The Believer" magazine to novels and story collections the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004.
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Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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A Temple of the Holy Ghost "A Temple of the Holy Ghost" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was written in 1954 and published in 1955 in her short story collection "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and is one of O'Connor's only explicitly Catholic stories. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work, but more commonly described rural Southern Protestants as her main characters.
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Lucia Nevai Lucia Nevai is an American novelist and short story writer, native to Des Moines, Iowa, born September 11, 1945. She currently resides in upstate New York. Her novel "Salvation" was published in 2008 by Tin House Books. Nevai's debut novel, "Seriously," was published in 2004 by Little, Brown. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, "Iowa Review", "Zoetrope All-Story", the "New Yorker", "Glimmer Train", and other literary magazines. Her first collection, "Star Game", won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her second collection, "Normal", was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
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G. (novel) G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger. The novel's setting is pre-First World War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the continent. Berger's experimental, non-linear narrative novel won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize. At the Booker Prize ceremony Berger criticized the sponsor Booker-McConnall for exploiting trade in the Caribbean for the past 130 years. Berger also gave half of the prize money to the British Black Panther movement.
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Ana's Story Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope is a non-fiction book, by Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush. Ana's Story is the account of a 17-year-old mother who was born with HIV. Bush met Ana, identified only by her first name, while an intern for UNICEF in Latin America. Because of discrimination against AIDS victims, some names and details in the story were altered to protect the subjects.
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Thomas Parker Sanborn Thomas Parker Sanborn ( ; February 24, 1865 - March 2, 1889) was an American poet. The eldest son of abolitionist, social scientist, and memorialist of American transcendentalism Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Thomas became a close friend of philosopher George Santayana and was a model for the protagonist in Santayana's only novel, The Last Puritan. With five college friends, Thomas founded "The Harvard Monthly".
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Yair Nehorai Yair Nehorai is an Israeli lawyer and author, best known for his novel "Taliban Son" (Hebrew: וַתְּהִי-לִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי; the Hebrew title is taken from Jeremiah 20:17) and for representing a series of high-profile cases involving the most extreme religious groups in Israel.
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LDS fiction LDS fiction (or Mormon fiction) is an American niche market of fiction novels featuring themes related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, see also "Mormon"). LDS fiction now accounts for more than half the sales of some Latter-day Saint book publishers.
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Adrianne Harun Adrianne Harun is an American writer of prose. Her debut novel, "A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain" (a book about "where evil comes from", according to the author), was published by Penguin in 2014. Claire Vaye Watkins called the book a "breathless, absorbing novel", and the book received many other positive reviews, one reviewer describing it as the "buzz book of the season".
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Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. In 2016, "The New York Times" described her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although she has said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
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Pilgrims (short story collection) Pilgrims is a collection of twelve short stories by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. It was named a New York Times Notable Book, won a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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Last Stop on Market Street Last Stop on Market Street is a 2015 children's book written by American author Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson, which won the 2016 Newbery Medal, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, and a Caldecott Honor. The book follows a young boy named CJ as he learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things during a bus ride.
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Erskine Caldwell Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States in novels such as "Tobacco Road" (1932) and "God's Little Acre" (1933) won him critical acclaim, but also made him controversial among Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region.
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Bo Caldwell Bo Caldwell (born 1955) is the author of the national bestseller "The Distant Land of My Father" (2002), and "The City of Tranquil Light" (2011). The former was the selection for Silicon Valley Reads 2008. Her short fiction has been published in "Ploughshares", "Story", "Epoch", and other literary journals. A former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, she currently lives in Northern California with her husband, Ron Hansen, and her two children.
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Saleem Sinai Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland on the South Asia of pre- and post-colonial India, Pakistan and newly liberated Bangladesh (East Bengal). He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule and lives during the new tumultuous struggles that engulf the new nations following August 15, 1947. Sinai embodies these physical struggles and rifts during, and serves as a metaphor for, the spiritual, religious, political and intellectual traumas of the young nations.
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Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the "Leatherstocking Tales".
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Tobias Wolff Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist. He is known for his memoirs, particularly "This Boy's Life" (1989) and "In Pharaoh's Army" (1994). He has written two novels, including "The Barracks Thief" (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and an array of short stories. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.
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Christopher Buckley (novelist) Christopher Taylor Buckley (born September 28, 1952) is an American political satirist known for writing "God Is My Broker", "Thank You for Smoking", "Little Green Men", "The White House Mess", "No Way to Treat a First Lady", "Wet Work", "Florence of Arabia", "Boomsday", "Supreme Courtship", "Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir" and, most recently, "The Relic Master: A Novel". He is the son of writer William F. Buckley Jr. and socialite Patricia Buckley.
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Arthur Kipps Arthur Kipps is the name of the protagonist in two distinct works of fiction.