Literature to Life Awards
The Literature to Life Award, which premiered in 2004, celebrates the writers whose books are now reaching underserved students across the country by their own outreach and through the Literature to Life program.
Past Award Recipients
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| 2010 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Greg Mortenson | Three Cups of Tea
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| "The American Place Theatre, by bringing my story to life for American
students, is playing a vital and unique role in our effort to achieve universal
literacy and education for all children, especially girls..."
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| 2009 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Ray Bradbury |
Fahrenheit 451
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| “I think that what you are doing is very important because it is two
things at the center of my life: the library and the theatre. You’re combining them...”
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| 2009 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Lois Lowry |
The Giver
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| “Here's what I'd love to see in a classroom: a bunch of kids...
each of them, listening to a book...paying attention to words coming alive,
to a story becoming real, becoming theirs. The American Place Theatre is what can do that..."
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| 2008 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Frank McCourt | Teacher Man
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| "Whenever another artist interprets your work you learn something. I know
I'll get ideas from seeing Teacher Man interpreted and performed by another
artist. Besides, it's downright flattering..."
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| 2006 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Jeannette Walls | The Glass Castle
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| “The Literature to Life team is bringing The Glass Castle to classrooms
with an intelligence, enthusiasm and creativity beyond what I would have ever dared dream...”
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| 2006 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Jonathan Safran Foer |
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| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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| “It goes without saying that young readers and writers are the future of literature.
So why aren't we making more of an effort to engage them in the literary culture? Why aren't
we bringing stories to them?...”
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| 2005 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner
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| “Stage has always been a unique and powerful medium for storytelling, direct
and intimate, organic and spontaneous...”
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| 2004 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried
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| "QUOTEQUOTEQUOTEQUOTE..."
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| 2004 Literature to Life Award Recipient
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| Sue Monk Kidd | The Secret Life of Bees
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| “It is with enormous pride that I join the company of authors whose
work has been staged at The American Place Theatre...”
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Spring 2011
Junot Diaz |
