4-540: Lily Brooks-Dalton (born August 18, 1987) is an American writer. Her first book, Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir , was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award . She was born and raised in southern Vermont . Brooks-Dalton earned a BA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a MFA at Portland State University . Her first book, Motorcycles I've Loved: A Memoir , published in 2015 by Riverhead ,
8-512: The Portland, Oregon , United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers." Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA). In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching
12-564: The lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year. In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom , in an effort to make it more lively and fun. Since 2009,
16-632: Was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award . Her first novel, Good Morning, Midnight , was published the next year by Random House , and it has been translated into half a dozen languages, with a film adaptation as The Midnight Sky in December 2020 starring and directed by George Clooney . This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1980s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Oregon Book Award The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by
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