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Publishing Winners

TCU Press books receive honors

TCU Press is riding high publishing winning books about the Winner of the Texas State
history and literature of Texas and the American West. Several Historical Association’s coveted
books published by the TCU Press in 2013 recently received Ron Tyler Award for Best
honors from the Texas Institute of Letters, Philosophical Society Illustrated Book on Texas
of Texas, and Texas State Historical Association. History and Culture goes to Fair
Park Deco: Art and Architecture
Winner of the Texas Institute of of the Texas Centennial Exposition
Letters’ Jesse Jones Award for by Jim Parsons and David Bush.
Fiction and most prestigious fiction
prize in Texas goes to Thomas Winner of the Philosophical
Zigal’s Many Rivers to Cross. The Society of Texas’s Award of
novel unfolds through the eyes Merit for Fiction goes to The
of the Grant family, separated Chicken Hanger by Ben Rehder.
and stranded in the flooding of The novel follows Ricky Delgado,
New Orleans following Hurricane who works at the poultry plant
Katrina. in Rugoso, Texas a small border
town just thirty miles south of
Finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Laredo. His quiet, illegal lifestyle
Carr P. Collins Award for Best Work of is disrupted when he learns that
NonFiction goes to The Harness Maker’s his brother Tomas has been shot
Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of and injured shortly after crossing
South Texas by Pulitzer Prize-winning the border. Together, they must
journalist Nick Kotz. This winning book decide if they will risk revealing their illegal status to seek
chronicles the history of the Kallisons, a justice or endure the injustices common to “wetbacks” in the
Jewish family instrumental to the growth states.
of San Antonio, Texas. “…A dramatic,
inspiring and here to fore little known side Finalist for the Philosophical Society
of Texas history.” —Bob Schieffer of Texas’s Award of Merit for Fiction
goes to Texas Jubilee, by James Ward
Finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Lee. Set primarily in the 1940s, this a
Fred Whitehead Award for Design goes collection of connected short stories
to Hometown, Texas by Karla K. Morton. about life in fictional Bodark Springs,
This book is a collection of poems and Texas, paints a humorous picture of
artwork by students from around the the politics, friendships, and secrets
state of Texas. that are part of day-to-day life in this
eccentric little Texas town.
Finalist for Texas Institute
of Letters’ H-E-B/Jean Flynn
Children’s Book Award was
presented to Texas Chili? Oh My by
Patricia Vermillion. This children’s
book is a Texanized retelling of the
Three Little Pigs.

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