The prize is awarded annually to the "best book in American historical fiction that is both excellent fiction and excellent history."
And the winner is Macmillan New Writer Ann Weisgarber with "The Personal History of Rachel DuPree."
Congratulations Ann,
thoroughly well-deserved.
16 comments:
Congratulations, Ann! Well deserved.
Hearty congratulations! One of the finest to come out of the MNW stables and certainly one of the best I have read in recent times.
Deborah, thank you so much for this. Thank you, too, RDJ and Suroopa. I really appreciate your cheers.
The prize came as a surprise. It was posted on the Langum website and thanks to good old google alerts, I saw it. It was one of those is-this-real? moments.
I've been very quiet on the blog but have been reading along, enjoying the back and forth of the questions and answers. I've had to knuckle down with my writing, but I'm determined to be more of a presence again. Thanks for not giving up on me.
I'm so pleased for you, Ann! Rachel DuPree is such a good book that it deserves the acclaim. Well done!
AWESOME!
Great news, Ann. And thoroughly deserved too!
Ann - that is wonderful news, and so well deserved. Many congratulations.
Congrats, Ann!
Congratulations, Ann! Great news.
Yay! Well done, you clever thing!!!!!
Congratulations, Ann!
Wonderful news
Congratulations, Ann -- wonderful news.
Great news, Ann. Congratulations and very well deserved.
Many, many congratulations Ann! I'm so pleased for you!
I really appreciate your congratulations. This prize -- American Historical Fiction -- for a book first published in England is ironic. I consider it a victory for Macmillan New Writing as well as for my U.S. publisher.
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