Award Winning Books by
JOANNA SCOTT

Tourmaline by Joanna Scott 3 reviews (2002) (288p) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

This universally acclaimed novel--everywhere hailed for its evocative descriptions, its compelling characters, its intricate plot--transports us to Elba, an island off the northwest coast of Italy, in the mid-1950s. It is here that an American man, seduced by the wealth promised in the island's surfeit of semiprecious tourmaline, has traveled with his wife and four young sons, and now struggles to... more >>

The Manikin by Joanna Scott 4 reviews (1996) (276p) (PP) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the Henry Ford of Natural History, by 1917 Craxton has become Americas preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a worldfilled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodileswanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxtons newest housekeeper... more >>

Various Antidotes: Stories by Joanna Scott 3 reviews (1994) (240p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

This collection of stories by the author of Arrogance contains tales featuring real and imaginary figures drawn from the history of science and medicine and capturing their peculiar obsessions. Tour.... more >>

Arrogance by Joanna Scott 5 reviews (1990) (288p) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature unt... more >>

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Joanna Scott Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 3   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 3   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 1 The Manikin ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 0   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 0   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 2 Arrogance · Various Antidotes: Stories ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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