American Book Award

Famous quotes containing the words american, book and/or award:

    “Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
    —Bible: New Testament Revelation 20:12.

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)