NEW YORK (AP) — Daisy Hernández s “The Kissing Bug,” a memoir about a lethal illness that killed her aunt, has received a $75,000 prize from PEN America.
NEW YORK (AP) Daisy Hernández's "The Kissing Bug," a memoir about a lethal illness that killed her aunt, has received a $75,000 prize from PEN America.
NEW YORK (AP) Daisy Hernández's “The Kissing Bug,” a memoir about a lethal illness that killed her aunt, has received a $75,000 prize from PEN America. The literary and free expression organization announced Monday that Hernández had won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for a work of any genre demonstrating “originality, merit and impact, with Joy Williams' “Harrow” and Percival Everett's “The Trees” among the finalists.