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The Goodhue Society The Young Writers Awards

Members of the Library’s bequest society, named for our generous benefactor Sarah Parker Goodhue, gathered for the annual On Monday, May 21, the Library hosted a unique Sweet Sixteen party: 16 years of the Young Writers Awards! This annual
reception in their honor on April 16. Author and Library trustee Jeannette Watson Sanger gave remarks. To learn more about event honors excellent writing by students in the Library community. This year’s competition included over 250 entries, with
the Goodhue Society, please contact Joan Zimmett at 212.288.6900 x207 or jzimmett@nysoclib.org. Photos by Karen Smul 12 winners and honorable mentions awarded by our longtime judges: Dave Johnson, Robert Quackenbush, Carol Weston, and
Edra Ziesk. We invite you to read this year’s winning words at tinyurl.com/YWANSYL and memorize their names, for they
will likely be seen on books in the Library’s stacks one day. Photo by Karen Smul

Winners: Honorable Mentions:

Ava Van Dusen, Rain Song (3rd-4th Grade Poetry) Raana Thacker, The Last Bite (3rd-4th Grade Poetry)
Olivia Wilson, Ukuthula (3rd-4th Grade Prose) Lily Johnston, Purple Bear (3rd-4th Grade Prose)

Julia Miyasaka, The Glass Wall (5th-6th Grade Poetry) Oliver Medlin, My Style (5th-6th Grade Poetry)
Jacob Abroon, Jackson Abrahams: Inika Agrawal, A New Pair of Eyes (5th-6th Grade Prose)
My Adventures in D-Day (5th-6th Grade Prose)
Rebecca Arian, Charmed Love (7th-8th Grade Prose)
Rebecca Arian, Perspectives on Politics (7th-8th Grade Poetry)

Jai Glazer, Space Race (7th-8th Grade Prose)
Belinda Brakerridge, Carol Collins Malone, and Linda Fritzinger; Paula Offricht, Claude Bloch, William J. Dean, and Lucienne Bloch; Alexander Sanger and
Jeannette Watson Sanger Ayla Schultz, Mung Dal (9th-12th Grade Prose)

The New York City Book Awards 2017-18

The New York City Book Awards celebrated this year’s winners with a ceremony and reception on May 1. Head Librarian
Carolyn Waters, Book Awards Jury chair Warren Wechsler, and trustee Ellen M. Iseman spoke about the history and impor-
tance of the awards, followed by presentations from jurors and remarks from the winning authors about their outstanding
New York City books. The winners are Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham; Roz Chast, Going Into Town; Francis Spufford, Golden
Hill; Anthony W. Robins, New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture; Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach;
and, winning the Hornblower Award for a First Book, Lisa Ko, The Leavers. Photos by Karen Smul

Roz Chast and Peter Salwen; Bianca Calabresi with Lisa Ko; Anthony W. Robins; trustee Ellen M. Iseman with jury chair Warren Wechsler

THE 2016-2017 NEW YORK CITY BOOK AWARDS ARE GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY ELLEN M. ISEMAN. THE YOUNG WRITERS AWARDS ARE GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY JEANETTE SARKISIAN WAGNER.

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