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The
2003 Award
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Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Harcourt ISBN 0151002940 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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1948 Cleveland was America's sixth biggest city: by 1969 it was the twelfth.
For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it
is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948 fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet - and fall in love - four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctantly star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country. Crooked River Burning is an epic tale of those twenty years, a portrait of a conflicted city, and woven into the tapestry are real-life Clevelanders like Eliot Ness, Alan Freed and Carl Stokes. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Mark Winegardner is the author of the novel The Veracruz Blues and the non-fiction books Prophet of the Sandlots and Elvis Presley Boulevard. He contributes regularly to various magazines. He is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Programme at Florida State University in Tallahassee, U.S.A. |
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