Faster access than browser!
101 relations: Akan language, Alan Furst, Ann Patchett, Avi (author), Billy Collins, Billy Mills, Blu-ray, Carter Revard, Charles Chibitty, Christopher Paul Curtis, City Book Review, Columnist, Cynthia Voigt, David McCullough, E-book, E. L. Doctorow, E. L. Konigsburg, Email, Eudora Welty, Facebook, Gary Paulsen, Geraldine Brooks (writer), Ghana, Gordon Korman, Helmerich Award, Hill Harper, Ian McEwan, Instant messaging, Jack Gantos, Jacqueline Woodson, Jane Yolen, Jerry Spinelli, Jim Murphy (author), John Grisham, John Hope Franklin, John le Carré, John Updike, Joseph Bruchac, Joy Harjo, Joyce Carol Oates, Kate DiCamillo, Katherine Paterson, Kathryn Lasky, Kazuo Ishiguro, KOTV-DT, KWGS, KWTV-DT, Larry McMurtry, Laurie Halse Anderson, LeAnne Howe, ..., Leslie Marmon Silko, Literary award, Lois Lowry, Louis Sachar, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, Mark Helprin, Michael Chabon, Michael Eric Dyson, Mildred Ladner Thompson, Neal McCaleb, Neil Simon, Nikki Giovanni, Norman Cousins, Norman Mailer, Pearl Cleage, Peter Matthiessen, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Public library, Ray Bradbury, Richard Ford, Richard Peck (writer), Rick Atkinson, Russell Freedman, Ruthe Blalock Jones, S. E. Hinton, Sankofa, Saul Bellow, Sharon Creech, Sharon Draper, Shelby Foote, Sterlin Harjo, Susan Cooper, Susan L. Taylor, Tavis Smiley, Telephone, Text messaging, Thomas Keneally, Tim Tingle, Toni Morrison, Tulsa Book Review, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Tulsa World, Twitter, Vine Deloria Jr., Walter Dean Myers, Wendell Berry, Wi-Fi, William Kennedy (author), William Manchester, Wilma Mankiller. Expand index (51 more) »
Akan language
Akan is a Central Tano language that is the principal native language of the Akan people of Ghana, spoken over much of the southern half of that country, by about 58% of the population, and among 30% of the population of Ivory Coast.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Akan language · See more »
Alan Furst
Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Alan Furst · See more »
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Ann Patchett · See more »
Avi (author)
Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi,Sandra Q. Williams, American Library Association:.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Avi (author) · See more »
Billy Collins
William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Billy Collins · See more »
Billy Mills
William Mervin "Billy" Mills, also known as Makata Taka Hela (born June 30, 1938), is a Native American former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Billy Mills · See more »
Blu-ray
Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Blu-ray · See more »
Carter Revard
Carter Curtis Revard (born March 25, 1931, American Lives, Washington University at St. Louis, 16 April 2001) is an American poet, scholar, and writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Carter Revard · See more »
Charles Chibitty
Charles Joyce Chibitty (November 20, 1921 – July 20, 2005) was a Native American and United States Army code talker in World War II, who helped transmit coded messages in the Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) language on the battlefield as a radio operator in the European Theatre of the war.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Charles Chibitty · See more »
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953)Judy Levin, Allison Stark Draper, Christopher Paul Curtis (The Rosen Publishing Group, 2005),, p. 84.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Christopher Paul Curtis · See more »
City Book Review
City Book Review is based in Sacramento, California and is the publisher of four book review newspapers.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and City Book Review · See more »
Columnist
A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Columnist · See more »
Cynthia Voigt
Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Cynthia Voigt · See more »
David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and David McCullough · See more »
E-book
An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and E-book · See more »
E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and E. L. Doctorow · See more »
E. L. Konigsburg
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and E. L. Konigsburg · See more »
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Email · See more »
Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Eudora Welty · See more »
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Facebook · See more »
Gary Paulsen
Gary James Paulsen (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Gary Paulsen · See more »
Geraldine Brooks (writer)
Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Geraldine Brooks (writer) · See more »
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Ghana · See more »
Gordon Korman
Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Gordon Korman · See more »
Helmerich Award
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is an American literary prize awarded by the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Helmerich Award · See more »
Hill Harper
Francis Eugene "Hill" Harper (born May 17, 1966) is an American actor and author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Hill Harper · See more »
Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Ian McEwan · See more »
Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Instant messaging · See more »
Jack Gantos
Jack Gantos (born July 2, 1951) is an American author of children's books.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Jack Gantos · See more »
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Jacqueline Woodson · See more »
Jane Yolen
Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Jane Yolen · See more »
Jerry Spinelli
Jerry Spinelli (born February 1, 1941) is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Jerry Spinelli · See more »
Jim Murphy (author)
Jim Murphy (born September 25, 1947) is an American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Jim Murphy (author) · See more »
John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and John Grisham · See more »
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and John Hope Franklin · See more »
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and John le Carré · See more »
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and John Updike · See more »
Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is a writer of books relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Joseph Bruchac · See more »
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born Joy Foster on May 9, 1951, Mvskoke) is a poet, musician, and author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Joy Harjo · See more »
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Joyce Carol Oates · See more »
Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) Includes "Autobiographical Statement" by DiCamillo".
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Kate DiCamillo · See more »
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Katherine Paterson · See more »
Kathryn Lasky
Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Kathryn Lasky · See more »
Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Kazuo Ishiguro · See more »
KOTV-DT
KOTV-DT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 45), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and KOTV-DT · See more »
KWGS
KWGS 89.5 FM is the flagship National Public Radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and KWGS · See more »
KWTV-DT
KWTV-DT, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 39), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and KWTV-DT · See more »
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the Old West or in contemporary Texas.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Larry McMurtry · See more »
Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Laurie Halse Anderson · See more »
LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe (born April 29, 1951) is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and LeAnne Howe · See more »
Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is a Laguna Pueblo writer and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Leslie Marmon Silko · See more »
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Literary award · See more »
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with forty-five children's books.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Lois Lowry · See more »
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar (born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Louis Sachar · See more »
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle Camp (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American writer who wrote young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Madeleine L'Engle · See more »
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Margaret Atwood · See more »
Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Mark Helprin · See more »
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Michael Chabon · See more »
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) an academic, author, preacher, and radio host.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Michael Eric Dyson · See more »
Mildred Ladner Thompson
Mildred "Millie" Ladner Thompson (June 24, 1918 – June 25, 2013) was an American journalist, writer and columnist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Mildred Ladner Thompson · See more »
Neal McCaleb
Neal A. "Chief" McCaleb (born 1935) is an American civil engineer and Republican politician from Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Neal McCaleb · See more »
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Neil Simon · See more »
Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Nikki Giovanni · See more »
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Norman Cousins · See more »
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Norman Mailer · See more »
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage (born December 7, 1948) is an African American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Pearl Cleage · See more »
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA agent.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Peter Matthiessen · See more »
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · See more »
Public library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funded from public sources, such as taxes.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Public library · See more »
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Ray Bradbury · See more »
Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Richard Ford · See more »
Richard Peck (writer)
Richard Wayne Peck (April 5, 1934 – May 23, 2018) was an American novelist known for his prolific contributions to modern young adult literature.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Richard Peck (writer) · See more »
Rick Atkinson
Lawrence Rush "Rick" Atkinson IV (born November 16, 1952) is an American author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Rick Atkinson · See more »
Russell Freedman
Russell A. Freedman (October 11, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Russell Freedman · See more »
Ruthe Blalock Jones
Ruthe Blalock Jones (born 1939) is a Delaware-Shawnee-Peoria painter and printmaker from Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Ruthe Blalock Jones · See more »
S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and S. E. Hinton · See more »
Sankofa
Sankofa is a word in the Twi language of Ghana that translates to "Go back and get it" (san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Asante Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg in its mouth.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Sankofa · See more »
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Saul Bellow · See more »
Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Sharon Creech · See more »
Sharon Draper
Sharon Mills Draper (born August 21, 1948) is an American children's writer and a professional educator, the 1997 National Teacher of the Year.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Sharon Draper · See more »
Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Shelby Foote · See more »
Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo (Seminole-Muscogee, born 1979)Sam Lewin,, Native Times News, reprinted in Canku Ota, May 24, 2004 (article gives his age as 24 in 2004).
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Sterlin Harjo · See more »
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Susan Cooper · See more »
Susan L. Taylor
Susan L. Taylor (born January 23, 1946) is an American editor, writer, and journalist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Susan L. Taylor · See more »
Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley (born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Tavis Smiley · See more »
Telephone
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Telephone · See more »
Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablets, desktops/laptops, or other devices.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Text messaging · See more »
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Thomas Keneally · See more »
Tim Tingle
Tim Tingle is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a speaker and storyteller.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Tim Tingle · See more »
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Toni Morrison · See more »
Tulsa Book Review
Tulsa Book Review is a monthly book review newspaper published in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa Book Review · See more »
Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Tulsa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa County, Oklahoma · See more »
Tulsa World
The Tulsa World is the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and primary newspaper for the northeastern and eastern portions of Oklahoma.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa World · See more »
Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Twitter · See more »
Vine Deloria Jr.
Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005) was a Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Vine Deloria Jr. · See more »
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Walter Dean Myers · See more »
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Wendell Berry · See more »
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or WiFi is technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Wi-Fi · See more »
William Kennedy (author)
William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and William Kennedy (author) · See more »
William Manchester
William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and William Manchester · See more »
Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a community organizer and the first woman elected to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation.
New!!: Tulsa City-County Library and Wilma Mankiller · See more »
Redirects here:
Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_City-County_Library
