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unusual facts about Oregon Book Award


Wings for My Flight

The book co-received the Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction in 1991 with My Country, My Right to Serve by Mary Ann Humphrey.


Hazel Hall

The Oregon Book Award for poetry is jointly named for Hall and fellow Oregon poet William Stafford.

Lauren Kessler

She is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.


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