Dead Still wins prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award in US
Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021
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Kerr Logan, Michael Smiley and Eileen O Higgins in Dead Still
Dead Still creator and writer John Morton has been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay for the show s debut episode Photochemistry.
The awards are issued by the Mystery Writers of America, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television.
Created by Morton, and starring Michael Smiley, the droll dramedy is set in 1880s Dublin in the Victorian era heyday of postmortem photography , when a recently deceased loved one is pictured for posterity with their family.
Encyclopedia of Arkansas Minute: Robbie Branscum
An Arkansas native’s hardscrabble childhood was a key inspiration on her award-winning career as an author for older children.
Robbie Branscum was born Robbie Nell Tilley in Big Flat in 1934 and grew up on her grandparents’ sharecropper farm. She attended a one-room school that had two crates filled with books that allowed her escape from her hard life; she later said “I read like a starving person eats.”
Her mother moved her to Colorado when Tilley was 13 and she married Dwane Branscum two years later, moving to California.
A natural storyteller, Robbie Branscum would publish twenty books between 1971 and 1991. Her books would win several awards, with 1982’s The Murder of Hound Dog Bates taking the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America as well as being one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her largely autobiographical The Girl won a PEN award for literary excellence in children’s fict
The YA novel
Like Home tells the story of a teen named Chinelo, Nelo for short. Her best friend is Kate and life is good. Nelo s family owns a convenience store in a popular neighbourhood known as Ginger East. But when the store is vandalized and police get involved, Nelo is emotionally affected and her relationship with her friends and family change forever.
Like Home is for ages 14 and up.
Louisa Onomé is a Nigerian Canadian living in Toronto.
Fresh Air9:57How growing up in Mississauga inspired a new YA novel about community and the challenges of gentrificationLouisa Onomé speaks about her debut novel Like Home - a story that tackles gentrification through the eyes of teenagers - and the inspiration she drew from her own experiences growing up in Mississauga.9:57
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Gary and Carol Stern’s Epic Fight Against Malpractice in the American Health Care System Written by Award-Winning Author David Black to be Released June 22, 2021
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A new era of intrigue and danger begins for James Bond, and this time his formidable adversaries include a corrupt Chinese general and a power-crazed tycoon. It s June 1997 and M despatches 007 to Hong Kong to investigate a series of unexplained bombings. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
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