Nancy Rawles
{{Short description|American playwright, novelist and teacher}}
Nancy Rawles is an American playwright, novelist, and teacher. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/conferences/beyond-slavery/presenters/nancy-rawles.html|title=Nancy Rawles {{!}} Beyond Slavery {{!}} Feminist Sexual Ethics Project {{!}} Brandeis University {{!}} Brandeis University|website=www.brandeis.edu|access-date=2019-01-02|archive-date=2021-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206143752/https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/conferences/beyond-slavery/presenters/nancy-rawles.html|url-status=live}}
Awards
In 2005, Booklist included My Jim on their list of year's the best "Adult Books for Young Adults".{{Cite web |date=2006-01-01 |title=Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2005 |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=2832899 |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2024-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240501023157/https://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=2832899 |url-status=live }}
In 2007, Rawles received an Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
Works
=Novels=
- {{cite book| title=Love Like Gumbo| publisher= Fjord Press| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-940242-75-3 }}
- {{cite book|title=Crawfish Dreams|publisher=Random House, Inc.|year=2003|isbn=978-0-385-50418-8|url=https://archive.org/details/crawfishdreams00rawl}}
- {{cite book | title=My Jim | publisher=Crown Publishers | year=2005 | isbn=978-1-4000-5400-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/myjimnovel00rawl }}
=Criticism=
- {{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070701730.html| title=Chains of Madness| date=July 10, 2005| newspaper=The Washington Post | first=Nancy | last=Rawles | accessdate=May 19, 2010}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4508930 "Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'", NPR, Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005 ]
- {{cite news| url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2009159597_myjim030.html| title="Seattle Reads:" Huck Finn's adventure, Jim's ordeal| author=Barbara Lloyd McMichael| work=The Seattle Times| date= May 3, 2009 }}
- {{cite news| url=http://www.su-spectator.com/2.2663/author-nancy-rawles-retells-twain-classic-in-my-jim-1.241697| title=Author Nancy Rawles retells Twain classic in 'My Jim'| author=Frances Dinger| date=May 27, 2009| work=The Seattle University Spectator| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001022014/http://www.su-spectator.com/2.2663/author-nancy-rawles-retells-twain-classic-in-my-jim-1.241697| archivedate=October 1, 2009}}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOkN0biH6AUC&q=Nancy+Rawles&pg=PA169 |chapter= I Try to Write Rhythmically| title= The Very Telling: Conversations with American Writers | editor= Sarah Anne Johnson| publisher= UPNE| year= 2006 |page= 169| isbn= 978-1-58465-594-7 }}
- {{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-04-et-huckfinn4-story.html| title='My Jim' adds slave's insight to Huck's story| date=April 4, 2005| author=Erin Texeira| work=The Los Angeles Times}}
- [http://www.seattlewomanmagazine.com/articles/apr08-4.htm "The Importance of Place: Lisa Albers talks with prominent local authors about their writing", Seattle Woman]
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Category:Writers from Los Angeles
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women novelists
Category:City University of Seattle alumni
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American Book Award winners
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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