Quills Announces Nominees; Williams, Stewart to Appear
by Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 8/4/2005
The Quills announced today that winners of its inaugral Quill Awards will be announced Oct. 11 in a ceremony hosted by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Also scheduled to make an appearance: The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and comedian/actor Robert Klein.
Williams' selection as host was announced this morning by Reed Business Information and NBC Universal Television Stations, which joined together earlier this year to create the new event to honor excellence in book publishing. (PW is owned by Reed Business Information.)
This morning's announcement also included the 95 Quill nominees, all of which were chosen by a panel of booksellers and librarians. Winners in the 19 categories will be determined by the reading public in a voting process scheduled to run from Aug. 15 through Sept. 15. A complete list of all the nominees can be read on the Quills Web site.
Among the major categories, A Long Way Home by Nick Hornby; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd; The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; and Zorro by Isabel Allende were the nominees in general fiction. In biography/memoir the nominees were: Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan; The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls; His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis; Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs; and Will in theWorld: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt.
Nominees for the debut author of the year were Stephanie Kallos for Broken for You; Mireille Guilian, author of French Women Don't Get Fat; Dave King for The Ha-Ha; Elizabeth Kostova for The Historian; and John Twelve Hawks for The Traveler.Highlights of the event will be covered in a one-hour Quill Awards television special to be aired Oct. 22 on 14 NBC Universal owned & operated television stations.
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