{"id":2812,"date":"2015-03-05T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:20:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:20:57","slug":"updike-biography-named-l-a-times-book-prize-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/05\/updike-biography-named-l-a-times-book-prize-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike biography named L.A. Times Book Prize finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finalists\u00a0for the L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced today, and Adam Begley&#8217;s <strong><em>Updike<\/em><\/strong> is one of five books in the running to win\u00a0the award for\u00a0biography. The others are Robert M. Dowling&#8217;s <em>Eugene O&#8217;Neill: A Life in Four Acts<\/em>, Kirstin Downey&#8217;s <em>Isabella: The Warrior Queen<\/em>, Stephen Kotkin&#8217;s <em>Stalin: Volume 1 &#8211; Paradoxes of Power 1878-1928<\/em>, and Andrew Roberts&#8217; <em>Napoleon: A Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether\u00a0the lack of a colon in Begley&#8217;s title will help or hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The other nominees can be found here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-la-times-book-prizes-20150303-story.html?track=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;dlvrit=717819#page=1\">&#8220;T.C. Boyle, LeVar Burton lead L.A. Times Book Prizes.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finalists\u00a0for the L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced today, and Adam Begley&#8217;s Updike is one of five books in the running to win\u00a0the award for\u00a0biography. The others are Robert M. Dowling&#8217;s Eugene O&#8217;Neill: A Life in Four Acts, Kirstin Downey&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/05\/updike-biography-named-l-a-times-book-prize-finalist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}