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2022 Shortlists

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Congratulations to the 40 authors and books selected for the 2022 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards shortlists. These books were selected as the best books written by Indiana authors over the past two years. Add them to your reading list today! 

2022 Shortlists

Nonfiction

Craig Fehrman

Nonfiction

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote

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James H. Madison

Nonfiction

The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland

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Michella M. Marino

Nonfiction

Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport

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Ray Boomhower

Nonfiction

Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Gualdalcanal to Vietnam

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Ruth D. Reichard

Nonfiction

Blood and Steel: Ryan White, the AIDS Crisis and Deindustrialization in Kokomo, Indiana

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Steve Beaven

Nonfiction

We Will Rise: A True Story of Tragedy and Resurrection in the American Heartland

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Fiction

Angela Jackson-Brown

Fiction

When Stars Rain Down

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D.A. Lockhart

Fiction

Breaking Right

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Laird Hunt

Fiction

Zorrie

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Michael Martone

Fiction

The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne

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Susan Neville

Fiction

The Town of Whispering Dolls

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Debut

Ashley C. Ford

Debut

Somebody’s Daughter

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Caleb Caudell

Debut

The Neighbor

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Christopher Elliott

Debut

Before the Dream: Martin Luther King’s 1963 Speech, and Civil Rights Struggles in Fort Wayne, Indiana

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J.R. Jamison

Debut

Hillbilly Queer: A Memoir

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Tyrone McKinley Freeman

Debut

Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow

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Genre

Joseph Lee

Genre

Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments

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Josh Dygert

Genre

Stella

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Larry D. Sweazy

Genre

Winter Seeks Out the Lonely: A Sonny Burton Novel

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Paul Allor

Genre

Hollow Heart

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Sofi Keren

Genre

False Starts & Artichoke Hearts

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Steve Schatz

Genre

Seashell Virgin: A Nacho Mama’s Patio Cafe Novel

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Poetry

Adrian Matejka

Poetry

Somebody Else Sold the World

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Kaveh Akbar

Poetry

Pilgrim Bell

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Marianne Boruch

Poetry

Bestiary Dark

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Mark Neely

Poetry

Ticker

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Ross Gay

Poetry

Be Holding

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Young Adult

Leah Johnson

Young Adult

You Should See Me in a Crown

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Tamara Winfrey Harris

Young Adult

Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power

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Middle Grade

Helen Frost

Middle Grade

All He Knew

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John David Anderson

Middle Grade

One Last Shot

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Laura Martin

Middle Grade

Glitch

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Lisa Fipps

Middle Grade

Starfish

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Rob Harrell

Middle Grade

Batpig: When Pigs Fly

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Children’s

Gabrielle Balkan

Children’s

Whose Bones? An Animal Guessing Game

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Judith L. Roth

Children’s

Hiding Baby Moses

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Headshot of award-winning author Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon

Children’s

The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy

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Kenneth Kraegel

Children’s

This Is a Book of Shapes

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Kim Howard

Children’s

Grace and Box

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Rebecca Mullin

Children’s

One Tomato: A Garden Counting Book

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View the 2020 Indiana Authors Award winners.