Rutgers Newark Writers Capture 3 American Book Awards For 2016

NEWARK, NJ — The Rutgers University–Newark campus has produced a plethora of award-winning writers for 2016.

The Before Columbus Foundation recently announced the winners of the 37th annual American Book Awards, which recognize “outstanding literary achievement from the spectrum of America’s diverse literary community.”

This year, the list includes three members of the Rutgers University–Newark community, according to school administrators: Professor John Keene, Assistant Professor Lyra Monteiro and alumnus Nick Turse.

Keene is being honored for his book Counternarratives (New Directions), Monteiro for her essay “Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton” (The Public Historian), and Turse for his book Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books), school administrators stated.

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