Posted on Sep 24, 2004

Brenda
Wineapple, Doris Zemurray
Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, won the Ambassador Award for Best Biography of 2003 from the
English-Speaking Union of the United States for her book, Hawthorne: A Life. The book was chosen by the Books-Across the Sea Committee
for its “outstanding contribution to interpreting the life and culture of the U.S. to other English-speaking people.” Copies of the book will
be sent to ESU libraries throughout the world. Other winners were David
Maraniss (They Marched into Sunlight)
in American studies; Richard Powers (The
Time of our Singing) for fiction, and Collected
Poems of Robert Lowell, ed. Frank Bidart, for poetry. The chair of the
Committee is novelist Maureen Howard, taking over for George Plimpton. The
first chair was T. S. Eliot. Other members of committee include Eric Foner,
Vartan Gregorian, and Rick Moody. The awards ceremony is Oct. 7 at the New York
Public Library.