What awards has the author of the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton won?
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Hamilton (album) Hamilton is the cast album to the 2015 musical "Hamilton". The musical is based on the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The recording stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Jonathan Groff. It also features Jon Rua, Thayne Jasperson, Sydney James Harcourt, Ariana DeBose, and Sasha Hutchings. It achieved the largest first week sales for a digital cast album and is the highest-charting cast album since 1963. It was the highest-selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at number one on the Rap Album chart, the first cast album to ever do so.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda ( ; born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals "Hamilton" and "In the Heights". He co-wrote the songs for Disney's "Moana" soundtrack (2016) and is set to star in their upcoming film "Mary Poppins Returns". Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.
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Jamie Hamilton (publisher) James Hamish Hamilton (15 November 1900 – 24 May 1988) was a half-American half-Scot rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He founded the publishing house Hamish Hamilton Limited.
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Growth Fetish Growth Fetish is a book about economics and politics by the Australian liberal political theorist Clive Hamilton. Published in 2003 it became a best-seller in Australia, an unusual feat for what is normally considered a dry subject.
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Clive Hamilton Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the Founder and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates. Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".
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PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for nonfiction is awarded by the PEN American Center biennially "to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. It is intended that the winning book possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose four dozen books and countless other publications continue to provide an important and incisive commentary on the American social, intellectual and political scene."
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Carl Honoré Carl Honoré (born 1967 in Scotland) is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book "In Praise of Slow" (2004) about the Slow Movement.
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Mark Lynton History Prize The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression". The prize is one of three awards given as part of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and by the Columbia University School of Journalism.
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How to Be Both How to Be Both is a 2014 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 Folio Prize. It won the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize, the Novel Award in the 2014 Costa Book Awards and the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Catherine Alexander Catherine Alexander (born 1940) is an American author and teacher, living near Seattle, Washington. To date she has published stories in 29 literary journals, including North Atlantic Review, Rosebud (two successive issues), Bryant Literary Review, Rockhurst Review and won "Jurors' Choice" in Spindrift. National Public Radio has aired her work.
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Jerry Oppenheimer Jerry Oppenheimer is an American author who has written several unauthorized biographies of public figures including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld and the Hilton family.
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Tim Severin Tim Severin (born 25 Sept 1940) is a British explorer, historian and writer. Severin is noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 book "The Sindbad Voyage".
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Alexander Morgan Hamilton Alexander Morgan Hamilton (January 25, 1903 – May 29, 1970) was an American philanthropist and civil servant. He was the grandson of J. P. Morgan the financier, and great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
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Amy L. Alexander Amy L. Alexander (born May 4, 1963) is an American journalist. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, NPR, The Root (magazine), and The Nation. She is the author of four nonfiction books.
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Lisa Hamilton Lisa Hamilton is an American poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner.
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London: The Biography London: The Biography is a 2000 book by Peter Ackroyd published by Chatto & Windus.
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Publius (journal) Publius: The Journal of Federalism is a social science journal published by Oxford University Press, which is international in scope and devoted to the theory and practice of federalism. It was founded in 1973 by Daniel Elazar. Its title is in honor of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, who used the pen-name "Publius" in 1787-1788 when they published the papers that became known as "The Federalist". The journal is sponsored by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association and receives financial support from Florida State University.
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Zachary Leader Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over forty years in the UK. His best-known works are probably "The Letters of Kingsley Amis", which he edited and published in 2001, and "The Life of Kingsley Amis" (2006, UK; 2007, US), a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. The first volume of his two-volume biography of Saul Bellow, "The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964", was published in May 2015 by Alfred Knopf in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK. "On Life-Writing", an edited collection, will be published in September by OUP. He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Margaret Hamilton (publisher) Margaret Dawn Hamilton {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1941–) is an Australian children’s literature publisher. She received the Dromkeen Medal and Nan Chauncy Award in 2004. Her publishing company, Margaret Hamilton Books, was an imprint of Scholastic Australia from 1996 to 2001.
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Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
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Invincible Louisa Invincible Louisa is a biography by Cornelia Meigs that won the Newbery Medal and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It retells the life of Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women".
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The Virtues of War The Virtues of War is a 2004 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that follows the life of Alexander the Great, told through the eyes of a Hellenic-Persian scribe serving under him during his campaigns into India. Alexander is recounting the events of his life to the young scholar just before he dies in Babylon.