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The English-Speaking Union of the United States
Ambassador Book Award Committee
Sean Wilentz, Chairman
Sean Wilentz
Maureen Howard is the author of eight novels, including Grace Abounding, Expensive Habits and Natural History all of which were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her memoir Facts of Life received the National Book Circle Critics Award in 1978. Her last seasonal novel, The Rags of Time, was published in 2009. Ms Howard was Vice-President of PEN American Center and has reviewed widely for the New York Times, the New Republic and the Yale Review. Her critical works include introductions to Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather and she edited Collected Stories 1891-1910 and Collected Stories 1911-1937, the collected stories of Edith Wharton, for the Library of America. She has taught at a number of American universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Amherst and Yale, and was awarded the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Victor LaValle
May 2010
A special note: the ESU would like to recognize the late George
Plimpton for his service and contributions to the Ambassador
Book Awards Committee, where he served six
years as its Chairman.
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