Rilla Askew
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Rilla Askew

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Best known for her 2001 seminal novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, FIRE IN BEULAH. Askew has received the American Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the Myers Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. A PEN Faulkner finalist, Askew was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 2003 and received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Her forthcoming novel about the 16th century English martyr Anne Askew will be published in October 2022.

In 2009 Askew received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel KIND OF KIN, which deals with a fractured family affected by a ruthless new anti-immigration law, was a finalist for the Western Spur Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC Prize.

Askew's recent book of creative nonfiction, MOST AMERICAN: Notes From A Wounded Place, has been called by Kirkus Reviews "a thoughtful memoir in essays." In nine linked works of creative nonfiction, Askew spotlights the complex history of her home state. From the Trail of Tears to the Tulsa Race Massacre to the Murrah Federal Building bombing, Oklahoma appears as a microcosm of our national saga. U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo says of the work: "In Most American, Askew teaches us to see with wiser eyes."
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