Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albright travelled to Oslo, Norway, and finished second to Great Britain's Jeanette Altwegg, garnering a silver medal, an honor that surprised...
...their efforts, the Cleary brothers were given a parade through Cambridge in their honor the day after the victory...
Sasner, Lind and Joslin have already nabbed Ivy League Rookie-of-the-Year honors. White and Finney finished close to the top in the balloting in their respective years, while Marcoux and Wolkon are contending for the honor this year...
...Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar, Straus author, Larry Heinemann, won a National Book Award for his novel Paco's Story. Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize for Literature was a welcome honor, but then the publisher has no fewer than six other living laureates on its list: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elias Canetti, Wole Soyinka, Czeslaw Milosz and William Golding...
...forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house's cachet "made it an honor to take less money." Doing business the old-fashioned way has long-term rewards as well. "Sometimes a writer ahead of his time has to be nursed along," says Giroux. "Remember, Moby Dick was a flop in the 19th century -- too much whale...