Stonewall Book Awards 2014: McConnell, Duron, Sloin

   

Congratulations to wonderful David McConnell for winning the ALA's Stonewall Book Award's nonfiction prize for American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men [Kindle] shared with Lori Duron's Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. Hilary Sloin won the Stonewall Book Award in fiction for Art on Fire [Kindle], a mock-biography of a "pseudorealist" painter.

Several interesting choices in the honor books, too.

 

Barbara Gittings Literature Award

• Art on Fire [Kindle], by Hilary Sloin

Stonewall Honor Books in Literature

• A Strange and Separate People, by Jon Marans
• Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, by Benjamin Alire Saenz 
• The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell, by William Klaber

Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award

• American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men [Kindle], by David McConnell
• Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, by Lori Duron

Stonewall Honor Books in Non-Fiction

• A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R.B. Parkinson
• Fairyland, by Alysia Abbott

Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award:

• Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Fat Angie, e. E. Charlton-Trujillo

Children's & YA Honor Books:

• Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle
• Branded by the Pink Triangle, Ken Setterington
• Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan 

Comments

[Jameson Currier]

The edition of A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans published by Chelsea Station Editions is the Stonewall honor book, not the acting edition published by DPS. Here is the correct link on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Separate-People-Jon-Marans/dp/0983285152/ref=sr_1_29_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391189655&sr=1-29&keywords=chelsea+station+editions