2024: Philadelphia Voted Jennifer Weiner Best Local Author!
Jennifer Weiner
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Book lovers all over the area need to read the latest book by Jennifer Weiner titled ‘The Breakaway’. She’s #1 New York Times bestselling author and her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Weiner’s books have been made into motion pictures, she’s appeared on television and spent time as a feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She appeared on Time magazine’s list of “140 Best Twitter Feeds” and is outspoken for her feminist brand. In 2020, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia recognized Jennifer with the Anne D’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence.
2023: Philadelphia Voted Jennifer Weiner Best Local Author!
Jennifer Weiner
jenniferweiner.com
Book lovers all over the area need to read the latest book by Jennifer Weiner titled ‘The Breakaway’. She’s #1 New York Times bestselling author and her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Weiner’s books have been made into motion pictures, she’s appeared on television and spent time as a feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She appeared on Time magazine’s list of “140 Best Twitter Feeds” and is outspoken for her feminist brand. In 2020, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia recognized Jennifer with the Anne D’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence.
2022: Philadelphia Voted Quiara Alegría Hudes Best Local Author!
Quiara Alegría Hudes
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West Philadelphia native Quiara Alegria Hudes is an award-winning author and playwright. A graduate of Central High, she went on to study at Yale and Brown. Her work, including her critically acclaimed memoir, My Broken Language, and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Water by the Spoonful explore the diasporican community in Philadelphia and beyond. Hudes is also the author of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights” which she adapted for film, and the movie Vivo, both in collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Originally trained as a composer, Hudes often writes at the intersection of music and drama.
2021: Philadelphia Voted Lorene Cary Best Local Author!
Lorene Cary
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Novelist, essayist and educator Lorene Cary is a born-and-bred Philadelphian and Yeadon-ian who has acted as contributing editor for Newsweek and an associate editor at TV Guide. As a writer, Cary’s contributions include work appearing in The New York Times, Essence and Philadelphia magazine. It is, however, her larger works, built from intimate scale to epic grandeur, that have formed her renown – the likes of 1995’s “The Price of a Child” and its historic tale of the Underground Railroad, 1998’s “Pride.” In 1991, “Black Ice” debuted as an autobiographical read about becoming the first Black female student, then teacher at St. Paul’s School in New England. Cary currently teaches Creative Writing at UPenn, and has been the proud recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching twice!
