Ann Weisgarber

Honors

The film rights have been optioned by Viola Davis’s JuVee Productions.

Selected by Washington County, Texas, for its county-wide October 2013 Big Read program.

Included on National Public Radio’s This Week’s (August 8-14, 2011) Outstanding Softcover Releases.

Shortlisted for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award (Fiction).

SLS Best Books Award
Selected by Black Pearls Magazine as a Sankofa Literary Society Top Book for 2010.

Selected by Terry McMillan (Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy) as one of two books on her fall reading list – USA Today

Selected by Barnes & Noble for its Discover Great New Writers program, Fall 2010.

Selected by the American Booksellers Association for the August 2010 Indie Next List Great Reads.

Selected as a Midwest Connection Pick for August.

One of six featured in the August 2010 The New York Times Newly Released Books.

Selected by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of ten fiction books for 2010 summer reading

January 2010’s Book of the Month for bookgroup.info, a leading online organization in the UK for book discussion groups. It was a Recommended Book for February and March.

Recipient of the Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction for 2010 sponsored by The Langum Charitable Trust.

Recipient of the 2009 Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters.

Shortlisted for UK’s Orange Award for New Writers 2009 and longlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.

On June 3, 2009, Ann attended the Orange Prize Awards Ceremony in London. Click here to see pictures.

  • Announcements

    - The Glovemaker is the 2020 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction.

    - The Glovemaker is one of two finalists for the 2019 David J. Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction.

    - The Glovemaker is one of four finalists for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Novel Prize.

    - The Glovemaker is one of two finalists for the 2020 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel.

    - Ann's third novel, The Glovemaker, was released in February 2019 by Mantle/Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom, Skyhorse Publishing in the United States, and Nagel & Kimche in Germany.

    - The Glovemaker was published by Neri Pozza in Italy in July 2019. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is forthcoming.

    -Viola Davis's JuVee Productions options the film rights for The Personal History of Rachel DuPree.

  • Reviews

    The Glovemaker

    "The Glovemaker, Ann Weisgarber’s engrossing, troubling, honest-to-goodness third novel, is as stark and touching as the lives described, as tense and testing as the Utah backlands where it’s set, as fine as any fiction you will read this year.”

    -Jim Crace, author of The Melody and Harvest.

    The Promise

    "Set against the worst natural disaster in twentieth century American history, The Promise is a riveting tale, told in lean luminous prose, of the power of love and the frailty of the human condition.(Weisgarber’s) characters will live in your imagination long after you've turned the last deeply moving page.”

    - Ellen Feldman,
    author of Next to Love, Scottsboro, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, and Lucy.

    The Personal History
    of Rachel DuPree

    "An indelibly affecting teaching story: How unchecked selfish desires, regardless of their origins in historical cruelty and deprivation, lead inevitably to suffering. A suffering that can be alleviated only by the realization of a pure love for others greater than one's desires for self. Rachel and Isaac DuPree and their tiny, vulnerable family stand as monuments to the forgotten millions of brutal, spirit deforming choices made and endured by so many brave and deeply wounded Americans."

    -Alice Walker,
    author of The Color Purple

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