Tony Kushner Explained

Tony Kushner
Birth Date:	July 16, 1956
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Awards:	Full list

Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage, he is most known for his seminal work Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name. At the turn of the 21st century, he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.^[1] Kushner is among the few playwrights in history nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award.

Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted the acclaimed 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.

In 2003, he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022). His work with Spielberg has earned him four Academy Award nominations, one for Best Picture, two for Best Adapted Screenplay, and one for Best Original Screenplay.

Early life and education

Kushner was born in Manhattan, the son of Sylvia (née Deutscher), a bassoonist, and William David Kushner, a clarinetist and conductor.^[2] ^[3] His family is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Russia and Poland.^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8] Shortly after his birth, Kushner's parents moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, the seat of Calcasieu Parish where he spent his childhood. During high school Kushner was active in policy debate. In 1974, Kushner moved back to New York to begin his undergraduate college education at Columbia University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Medieval studies in 1978.^[9] He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, graduating in 1984. During graduate school, he spent the summers of 1978–1981 directing both early original works (Masque of the Owls and Incidents and Occurrences During the Travels of the Tailor Max) and plays by Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest) starring the children attending the Governor's Program for Gifted Children (GPGC) in Lake Charles.

Kushner has received several honorary degrees: in 2003 from Columbia College Chicago,^[10] in 2006 an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University, in 2008 an honorary Doctor of Letters from SUNY Purchase College, in May 2011 an honorary doctorate from CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and also an Honorary Doctorate from The New School,^[11] and in May 2015, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Ithaca College.^[12] ^[13]

Career

Kushner's best known work is Angels in America (a play in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika), a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into an HBO miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, , A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. His new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2006, starring Meryl Streep and directed by George C. Wolfe. Kushner has also adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk.

In the early 2000s, Kushner began writing for film. His co-written screenplay Munich was produced and directed by Steven Spielberg in 2005. In January 2006, a documentary feature about Kushner entitled Wrestling with Angels debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was directed by Freida Lee Mock. In April 2011 it was announced that he was working with Spielberg again, writing the screenplay for an adaptation of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's book .^[14] The screenplay for Lincoln would go on to receive multiple awards, in addition to nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Golden Globes and The Oscars.

In a 2015 interview actress/producer Viola Davis revealed she had hired Kushner to write an as yet untitled biopic about the life of Barbara Jordan that she planned to star in.^[15]

In 2016, Kushner worked on a screenplay version of August Wilson's play Fences; the resulting film Fences, directed by Denzel Washington, was released in December 2016.

Kushner is famous for frequent revisions and years-long gestations of his plays. Both Angels in America: Perestroika and Homebody/Kabul were significantly revised even after they were first published. Kushner has admitted that the original script version of Angels in America: Perestroika is nearly double the length of the theatrical version.^[16] His newest completed work, the play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, began as a novel more than a decade before it finally opened on May 15, 2009.

In 2018, it was announced that Kushner was working on a script of a remake of West Side Story for Spielberg to direct.^[17] West Side Story was released in December 2021 to positive reviews and received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.^[18] ^[19]

In 2022, Kushner collaborated again with Spielberg on The Fabelmans, a fictionalized account of Spielberg's childhood. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim and won the festival's People's Choice Award.^[20] The Fabelmans received seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.

In 2023, with his Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for Caroline, or Change, Kushner became one of the few writers in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.

Political views

Kushner's six-word memoir was "At least I never voted Republican."^[21] ^[22] His criticism of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians and the increased religious extremism in Israeli politics and culture has created some controversy with American Jews,^[23] including some opposition to his receiving an honorary doctorate at the 2006 commencement of Brandeis University. During the controversy, quotes critical of Zionism and Israel made by Kushner were circulated. Kushner said at the time that his quotes were "grossly mischaracterized". Kushner told the Jewish Advocate in an interview, "All that anybody seems to be reading is a couple of right-wing Web sites taking things deliberately out of context and excluding anything that would complicate the picture by making me seem like a reasonable person, which I basically think I am."^[24]

In an interview with the Jewish Independent, Kushner commented, "I want the state of Israel to continue to exist. I've always said that. I've never said anything else. My positions have been lied about and misrepresented in so many ways. People claim that I'm for a one-state solution, which is not true." He later stated that he hopes that "there might be a merging of the two countries because [they're] geographically kind of ridiculous looking on a map", although he acknowledged that political realities make this unlikely in the near future.^[25] Kushner has received backlash from family members due to his political views of Israel.^[26]

On May 2, 2011, the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY),^[27] at their monthly public meeting, voted to remove (by tabling to avoid debate) Kushner's name from the list of people invited to receive honorary degrees, based on a statement by trustee Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld about Kushner's purported statements and beliefs about Zionism and Israel.^[28] ^[29] In response, the CUNY Graduate Center Advocate began a live blog on the "Kushner Crisis" situation, including news coverage and statements of support from faculty and academics.^[30] Three days later, CUNY issued a public statement that the Board is independent.^[31]

On May 6, three previous honorees stated they intended to return their degrees: Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham, and Ellen Schrecker.^[32] Wiesenfeld said that if Kushner would renounce his anti-Israel statements in front of the Board, he would be willing to vote for him.^[33] The same day, the Board moved to reverse its decision.^[34] Kushner accepted the honorary doctorate at the June 3 graduation for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.^[35]

In March 2024, Kushner was one of several signatories of "A Statement From Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC", a letter denouncing AIPAC's lobbying efforts in the United States government.^[36]

Personal life

Kushner and his partner, Mark Harris, held a commitment ceremony in April 2003,^[37] the first same-sex commitment ceremony to be featured in the Vows column of The New York Times.^[38] In summer 2008, Kushner and Harris were legally married at the town hall in Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[39]

Harris is an editor of Entertainment Weekly and author of Pictures at a Revolution – Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, and Mike Nichols: A Life.

He is close friends with theatre director Michael Mayer, whom he met while studying at NYU.^[40]

List of works

Plays

"Incidents and Occurrences During the Travels of the Tailor Max" Lake Charles, Louisiana, Governor's Program For Gifted Children, 1980.
The Age of Assassins, New York, Newfoundland Theatre, 1982.
La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse, New York, Ohio Theatre, 1983.
The Heavenly Theatre, produced at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1984.
The Umbrella Oracle, Martha's Vineyard, The Yard, Inc..
Last Gasp at the Cataract, Martha's Vineyard, The Yard, Inc., 1984.
Yes, Yes, No, No: The Solace-of-Solstice, Apogee/Perigee, Bestial/Celestial Holiday Show, produced in St. Louis, Imaginary Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 1985, published in Plays in Process, 1987.
Stella (adapted from the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), produced in New York City, 1987.
A Bright Room Called Day, first produced in New York, Theatre 22, April 1985. Published in Plays By Tony Kushner, Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
In Great Eliza's Golden Time, produced in St. Louis, Missouri, Imaginary Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, 1986.
Hydriotaphia, produced in New York City, 1987 (based on the life on Sir Thomas Browne)
The Illusion (adapted from Pierre Corneille's play L'illusion comique; produced in New York City, 1988, revised version produced in Hartford, CT, 1990), Broadway Play Publishing Inc., 1991.
In That Day (Lives of the Prophets), New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1989.
(With Ariel Dorfman) Widows (adapted from a book by Ariel Dorfman), produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1991.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches (produced in San Francisco, 1991), Hern, 1992.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two: Perestroika, produced in New York City, 1992.
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (includes both parts), Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.
, Theatre Communications Group, 1995 & acting edition, Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh, A Ten-Minute Play That's Nearly Twenty Minutes Long, Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville, March 1996.
A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (adapted from Joachim Neugroschel's translation of the original Yiddish play by S. Ansky; produced in New York City at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 1997), Theatre Communications Group, 1997.
The Good Person of Szechuan (adapted from the original play by Bertolt Brecht), Arcade, 1997.
(With Eric Bogosian and others) Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets, Morrow, 1998.
Terminating, or Lass Meine Schmerzen Nicht Verloren Sein, or Ambivalence, in Love's Fire, Minneapolis, Guthrie Theater Lab, January 7, 1998; New York: Joseph Papp Public Theater, June 19, 1998.
Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery, performed at the National Theatre, London, 1998.
Homebody/Kabul, first performed in New York City, December 2001.
Caroline, or Change (musical), first performed in New York at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 2002.
Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, 2003.
Translation with "liberties"—but purportedly "not an adaptation"—of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children (2006)^[41]
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures Minneapolis, Guthrie Theater, 2009.
Tiny Kushner, a performance of five shorter plays, premiered at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, 2009^[42]

The stage performance rights to most of these plays are licensed by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

Books

A Meditation from Angels in America (1994) Harper, San Francisco,
Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer (1995) Theatre Communications Group, New York, NY
Howard Cruse (1995) Stuck Rubber Baby, introduction by Kushner, Paradox Press, New York.
David B. Feinberg (1995) Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone, introduction by Kushner, Penguin, New York.
David Wojnarowicz (1996) The Waterfront Journals, edited by Amy Scholder, introduction by Kushner, Grove, New York.
"Three Screeds from Key West: For Larry Kramer", (1997) in We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, edited by Lawrence D. Mass, St. Martin's Press, New York, pp. 191–199.
Moises Kaufman (1997) Gross Indecency, afterword by Kushner, Vintage, New York, pp. 135–143.
Plays by Tony Kushner (New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1999), . Includes:
- A Bright Room called Day (First published 1994)
- The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique
Death & Taxes: Hydrotaphia, and Other Plays, (1998) Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), . Includes:
- Reverse transcription
- Hydriotaphia: or the Death of Dr. Browne, (adaptation of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, a fictitious, imaginary account of Sir Thomas Browne's character not based upon fact)
- G. David Schine in Hell
- Notes on Akiba
- Terminating
- East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis
Brundibar, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Hyperion Books for Children, 2003.
Peter's Pixie, by Donn Kushner, illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault, introduction by Tony Kushner, Tundra Books, 2003
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present, 2003
Save Your Democratic Citizen Soul!: Rants, Screeds, and Other Public Utterances
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, with Alisa Solomon, Grove, 2003.
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1941–1961, Library of America, 2006 (editor)
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1964–1982, Library of America, 2012 (editor)
Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1987–2004, with Stage and Radio Plays of the 1930s & 40s, Library of America, 2015 (editor)

Essays

"The Secrets of Angels". The New York Times, March 27, 1994, p. H5.
"The State of the Theatre". Times Literary Supplement, April 28, 1995, p. 14.
"The Theater of Utopia". Theater, 26 (1995): 9–11.
"The Art of the Difficult". Civilization, 4 (August/September 1997): 62–67.
"Notes About Political Theater," Kenyon Review, 19 (Summer/Fall 1997): 19–34.
"Wings of Desire". Premiere, October 1997: 70.
"Fo's Last Laugh—I". Nation, November 3, 1997: 4–5.
"Matthew's Passion". Nation, November 9, 1998
"A Modest Proposal". American Theatre, January 1998: 20–22, 77–89.
"A Word to Graduates: Organize!". Nation, July 1, 2002.
"Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy". Nation, March 24, 2003.

Films

Munich, a film by Steven Spielberg (2005) – screenplay (co-written by Eric Roth)
Lincoln, a film by Steven Spielberg (2012) – screenplay
Fences, a film by Denzel Washington (2016) – screenplay (uncredited, co-written by August Wilson), co-producer
West Side Story, a film by Steven Spielberg (2021) – screenplay, executive producer
The Fabelmans, a film by Steven Spielberg (2022) – screenplay (co-written by Spielberg), producer

Television

Angels in America, a miniseries by Mike Nichols (2003) – teleplay

Opera

La Fin de la Baleine: An Opera for the Apocalypse, (opera) – 1983
St. Cecilia or The Power of Music, (opera libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist's eighteenth-century story Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Eine Legende)
Brundibar, (an opera in collaboration with Maurice Sendak)

Director

Helen, written by Ellen McLaughlin, produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, 2002.^[43]

Interviews

Gerard Raymond, "Q & A With Tony Kushner," Theatre Week (December 20–26, 1993): 14–20.
Mark Marvel, "A Conversation with Tony Kushner," Interview, 24 (February 1994): 84.
David Savran, "Tony Kushner," in Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights, edited by Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996), pp. 291–313.
Robert Vorlicky, ed., Tony Kushner in Conversation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998).
Victor Wishna, "Tony Kushner," in In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Photographs by Ken Collins, Interviews by Victor Wishna (New York: Umbrage Editions, 2006).
Jesse Tisch, "The Perfectionist: An Interview with Tony Kushner," Secular Culture & Ideas 2009.
Christopher Carbone, Q & A With Tony Kushner, L Style G Style, (May/June 2011): https://archive.today/20130128100035/http://www.lstylegstyle.com/celebrity/tony-kushner/
Michał Hernes, "Kushner: Polityczna dusza Amerykanów została okaleczona" in Polityczna dusza Amerykanów została okaleczona, May 17, 2012.

Awards and honors

See main article: List of awards and nominations received by Tony Kushner.

Kushner has received various accolades including two Tony Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for four Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
He's also received various honors including:

1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
2002 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career
2008 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award
2011 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship^[44]
2012 St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates^[45]
2013 Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
2013: The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement^[46]

External links

Interviews

Tony Kushner, The Art of Theater No. 16. Catherine Steindler. Summer 2012. The Paris Review. Summer 2012. 201.
Writing the Playwright, interview by Frederic Tuten, Guernicamag.com, June 2005
Interview with Tony Kushner, Craig Young, AfterElton.com, October 12, 2006
Of angels and agnostics, Steve Dow, SteveDow.com.au, undated
Web site: Tony Kushner on Abraham Lincoln and Modern Politics (with Bill Moyers) . December 21, 2012 . Moyers & Company.

Notes and References

Web site: White House to honor Star Wars' Lucas, playwright Kushner among others. washingtontimes.com.
Book: Fisher, James. The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope. 2001. Psychology Press. 978-0-8153-3150-6.
Web site: Sylvia Deutscher Kushner, Bassoonist, 65. August 29, 1990. The New York Times.
News: 'Finding Your Roots' explores Jewish genealogy. Miller. Gerri. October 23, 2014. Jewish Journal. June 5, 2018.
Web site: University snub for 'anti-Israel' playwright Tony Kushner. June 5, 2018. May 5, 2011. Harris. Paul. The Guardian.
News: Tony Kushner awarded $100,000 prize for challenging status quo. Berrin. Danielle. November 29, 2011. Jewish Journal. June 5, 2018.
Web site: Tony Kushner: 'To love someone puts you at the risk of loss'. June 5, 2018. May 14, 2017. Kellaway. Kate. The Guardian.
Stated on Finding Your Roots, PBS, November 4, 2014
Web site: Tony Kushner. columbia.edu.
Web site: Library. colum.edu.
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. The New Yorker . June 6, 2011.
Ithaca College Honorary Degree Recipient Tony Kushner's Commencement Speech. May 18, 2015. YouTube.
Web site: Commencement – Ithaca College.
News: Yin. Maryann. Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner To Adapt Team of Rivals. https://web.archive.org/web/20110417090339/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/steven-spielberg-tony-kushner-to-adapt-team-of-rivals_b27796. dead. April 17, 2011. May 5, 2011. Mediabistro. May 14, 2011.
News: SYME. RACHEL. Viola Davis, on Finding Creative Space in TV With No Limitations. The New York Times. August 25, 2015. August 27, 2015.
Lucas, Craig. "Tony Kushner", "BOMB Magazine", Spring, 1993. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
News: Steven Spielberg Eyes Indiana Jones & 'West Side Story' Atop Next Directing Vehicles. Fleming. Mike Jr.. January 19, 2018. Deadline. January 19, 2018. en-US.
Web site: 2021-12-10 . West Side Story - Rotten Tomatoes . 2023-09-12 . www.rottentomatoes.com . en.
News: Cohn . Gabe . 2022-02-08 . Oscars 2022 Nominee List: 'Power of the Dog' and 'Dune' Lead . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-09-12 . 0362-4331.
News: Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans' Wins Toronto International Film Festival's People's Choice Award. Rubin. Rebecca. September 18, 2022. Variety. September 18, 2022. en-US.
Book: Smith . Larry . It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure . Fershleiser . Rachel . 2010. Harper Collins . 978-0-06-196348-3 . 76.
News: February 3, 2010. Can You Tell Your Life Story In Exactly Six Words? . NPR . October 12, 2022.
David Zax and Ted Merwin, (2007), The Playwright's Politics Moment Magazine
Shayndi Raice. "Brandeis graduation honoree draws fire." The Jewish Advocate. May 4, 2006.
News: Tony Kushner as film subject. August 24, 2007. Cynthia Ramsey. Jewish Independent. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071107022644/http://www.jewishindependent.ca/archives/Aug07/archives07Aug24-01.html. November 7, 2007.
David Zax and Ted Merwin (2007), The Playwright's Politics Moment Magazine
http://www.cuny.edu/about/trustees/board.html The Board of Trustees
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2011/05/02/public-meeting-of-the-board-of-trustees-6/ Podcast: Board of Trustees Public Hearing, May 2, 2011
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/transcript-of-cuny-trustees-speech-on-kushner-award/ Transcript of CUNY Trustee's Speech on Kushner Award
http://www.gcadvocate.com/2011/05/kushner-crisis-day-4/ Kushner Crisis (blog)
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/05/05/statement-on-honorary-degrees-at-the-city-university-of-new-york/ Statement on Honorary Degrees at the City University of New York
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/may/06/tony-kushner-supporters-renounce-degrees Tony Kushner row deepens as supporters renounce honorary degrees
Web site: Shamir . Shlomo . Mozgovaya . Natasha . CUNY trustee: Kushner must renounce anti-Israel statements to get honorary degree . Haaretz . May 6, 2011 . December 26, 2011.
News: After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner. The New York Times . Winnie. Hu. May 6, 2011.
News: Dramatist Alludes to Dispute as He Accepts CUNY Honor . . June 3, 2011.
News: March 20, 2024 . A Statement From Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC . . March 22, 2024.
News: Lois Smith Brady . Weddings/Celebrations: Vows; Mark Harris and Tony Kushner . The New York Times . May 4, 2003 . December 21, 2008.
News: McCarter. Jeremy. Tony Kushner's Day: The playwright at the heart of America's cultural moment. May 5, 2011. Newsweek. May 28, 2009.
News: Stockwell. Anne. Love Stories: Tony Kushner and Mark Harris. October 12, 2012. Advocate. October 8, 2012.
Web site: SECOND FLOOR OF SARdi's: A Drink with Michael Mayer. August 24, 2010.
News: Jonathan Kalb . Still Fearsome, Mother Courage Gets a Makeover . 2.4. The New York Times . August 6, 2006 . December 21, 2008.
Web site: Tiny Kushner: An Evening of Short Plays. Guthrie Theater. December 26, 2011.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/theater/theater-review-the-face-again-still-gorgeous-but-a-bit-weary.html
http://www.nationinstitute.org/puffinnation/recip.html Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
Web site: Saint Louis Literary Award – Saint Louis University. July 25, 2016. August 23, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html. dead.
https://www.thelincolnforum.org/richard-nelson-current-award-of-achievement The Lincoln Forum