THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS
Award Winners
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Adult Fiction Winner: Matthew Eck - The Farther Shore - Milkweed Editions Finalists: Tony Romano - When the World Was Young - HarperCollins Benjamin Percy - Refresh - Refresh: Stories - Graywolf Press Brock Clarke - An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England - Algonquin Books Adult Nonfiction Winner: Patricia Hampl - The Florist's Daughter - Harcourt Finalists: Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend - Prometheus Books Ann Hagedorn - Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 - Simon & Schuster Biography Winner: Judith Testa - Sal Maglie: Baseball's Demon Barber - Northern Illinois University Press Finalists: Robert E. Bonner - William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows - University of Oklahoma Press Robert Collins - Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan - Pelican Publishing Children's fiction Winner: Gary D. Schmidt - The Wednesday Wars - Clarion Books Finalists: Nancy Crocker - Billie Standish Was Here - Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Roderick Townley - The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations - Simon & Schuster Joan M. Wolf - Someone Named Eva - Clarion Books Children's Nonfiction Winner: Cris Peterson - Clarabelle: Making Milk and So Much More - Boyds Mills Press Finalists: Dawn FitzGerald - Vinnie and Abraham - Charlesbridge Publishing Marlene Targ Brill - Marshall “Major” Taylor: World Champion Bicyclist - 1899-1901 - Twenty-First Century Books Poetry Winner: Jeff Gundy - Spoken among the Trees - University of Akron Press Finalist: Donald Platt - My Father Says Grace - University of Arkansas Press James Friend Memorial Award for Criticism Winner: Myrna Petlicki Distinguished Service Award Phyllis Ford Choyke |