Quill Award
The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. it was created to inspire reading while promoting Literacy.[1]
Winners (2007)
- Book of the year: Angels Fall, Nora Roberts
- Audio book: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (read by Sissy Spacek)
- General fiction: Cormac McCarthy
- Romance: Angels Fall, Nora Roberts
- Biography/memoir: Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
Winners (2006)
- Book of the Year: Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, Tyler Perry
- Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade: Lemony Snicket
- Young Adult/Teen: Eldest, Christopher Paolini
- Graphic Novel: Naruto, Volume 7, Masashi Kishimoto
- Poetry: Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem, Maya Angelou
- Romance: Blue Smoke, Nora Roberts
- Cooking: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners, Rachael Ray
- Health/Self Improvement: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider, Jim Henson
- History/Current Events/Politics: An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
- Humor: Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, Tyler Perry
- Sports: Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football, Holly Robinson Peete
- Variety Blockbuster Book to Film: The Devil Wears Prada and its film adaptation author Lauren Weisberger and director david frankel
Winners (2005)
- Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling,
- Poetry: Let America Be America Again: And Other Poems, Langston Hughes
- Religion and Spirituality: Peace is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End, Deepak Chopra
- Cooking: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes, Rachael Ray
- Humor: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, Jon Stewart and the Writers of The Daily Show
The foundation awarded a Quills Corporate Literacy Award to Verizon for its support of Literacy programs in the United States
References
- "The Quill Book Awards homepage". TheQuills.org (Internet Archive). Archived from the original on June 25, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
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