While Obama was in Strasbourg, France, on the eve of a Nato summit meeting there, he was also up for two British Book Awards in London. On Friday his “Dreams From My Father” took the biography prize, but he lost author of the year — he had been shortlisted for “The Audacity of Hope” — to Aravind Adiga for his novel “The White Tiger,” which also won the Man Booker Prize last year. Other British Book Award winners included Kate Summerscale for her mystery “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective,” best nonfiction book and book of the year; and Stephenie Meyer, for her “Twilight” series book “Breaking Dawn,” children’s book of the year.
I wonder how much he wrote himself, in all seriousness. It would be nice to know that during all of his shenanigans he had time to write it…
I also would love to know how much this award was weighed on the actual word of, as my dad calls him, Obie.
About Me
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- I'm a Literature Major, liberal studies minor (I know, a cop out minor, right?!) I'm pursuing my PhD and hope to teach at a University somewhere someday. I was born in Colorado, went to school at the University of DE for a while, and now I'm here at Texas A&M - Commerce. I have the most amazing little spawn on the planet, his name is Avery. He's the cat's meow.
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