He and Shannon Ravenel founded Algonquin as an independent press devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction by undiscovered writers, mostly from the South. She currently teaches classes on the novel and the short story at Grub Street, an independent writing center in Boston. In 1983, Algonquin Books set up shop in a woodshed behind cofounder Louis Rubin’s Chapel Hill, N.C., home. ![]() “It would be difficult to conjure three more different books,” says Anna Hayes, president of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation, “and each one a marvel.” THE SHORTLISTĪnnie Hartnett graduated from Hamilton College, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the MFA program at the University of Alabama. This year’s Shortlist for the $5000 prize includes books featuring: a whip-smart eleven-year-old navigating grief in a distinctly quirky family young lovers coming of age in the crucibles of post-Katrina New Orleans and the Mexican drug cartels the imagined relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, illuminated by primary source documents about the Founding Father’s shifting views on slavery. Three wildly various books by emerging writers will vie for the fifth Crook’s Corner Book Prize, awarded each year to the best debut novel set in the American South.
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