{"id":2843,"date":"2015-03-17T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2015-03-17T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T02:43:15","slug":"updike-bio-makes-the-pen-literary-awards-long-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/17\/updike-bio-makes-the-pen-literary-awards-long-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike bio makes the PEN Literary Awards long list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 12, PEN America announced the &#8220;longlists&#8221; (i.e., nominees) for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays, and translation, and <strong>Adam Begley&#8217;s <em>Updike<\/em><\/strong> made the longlist for biography.<\/p>\n<p>Also making the longlist in that category: <em>Isabella<\/em>, by Kirstin Downey; <em>Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson<\/em>, by S.C. Gwynne; <em>The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace<\/em>, by Jeff Hobbs; <em>John Quincy Adams<\/em>, by Fred Kaplan; <em>Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/em>, by Charles Marsh; <em>Becoming Richard Pryor<\/em>, by Scott Saul; <em>The Queen&#8217;s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth&#8217;s Court<\/em>, by Anna Whitelock; <em>Victoria<\/em>, by A.N. Wilson; and <em>Piero&#8217;s Light<\/em>, by Larry Witham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/blog\/longlists-announced-2015-pen-literary-awards\">&#8220;Longlists Announced for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 12, PEN America announced the &#8220;longlists&#8221; (i.e., nominees) for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays, and translation, and Adam Begley&#8217;s Updike made the longlist for biography. Also making the longlist in that category: Isabella, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/17\/updike-bio-makes-the-pen-literary-awards-long-list\/\">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":[37,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}