Nancy Rawles is an American playwright, novelist, and teacher. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Awards.

Life

Rawles grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism. Rawles studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson of the Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.[1]

Awards

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• 2009 – Seattle Reads My Jim
• 2007 – Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction
• 2006 – American Library Association Alex Award
• 2006 – Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Fiction
• 2000 – Astraea Foundation, Claire of the Moon Award for Fiction
• 1998 – American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
• 1998 – Washington State Governor's Writers Award

Works

Novels

• Love Like Gumbo. Fjord Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-940242-75-3.
• Crawfish Dreams. Random House, Inc. 2003. ISBN 978-0-385-50418-8.
• My Jim. Crown Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4000-5400-8.

Criticism

• Rawles, Nancy (July 10, 2005). "Chains of Madness". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 19, 2010.

References

External links

• "Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'", NPR, Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005
• Barbara Lloyd McMichael (May 3, 2009). ""Seattle Reads:" Huck Finn's adventure, Jim's ordeal". The Seattle Times.
• Frances Dinger (May 27, 2009). "Author Nancy Rawles retells Twain classic in 'My Jim'". The Seattle University Spectator. Archived from the original on October 1, 2009.
• Sarah Anne Johnson, ed. (2006). "I Try to Write Rhythmically". The Very Telling: Conversations with American Writers. UPNE. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-58465-594-7.
• Erin Texeira (April 4, 2005). "'My Jim' adds slave's insight to Huck's story". The Los Angeles Times.
• "The Importance of Place: Lisa Albers talks with prominent local authors about their writing", Seattle Woman

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