| 词条 | Olympia Vernon |
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| name = Olympia Vernon | image = | caption = Olympia Vernon (circa 2006) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|5|22}} | birth_place = Bogalusa, Louisiana | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = novelist | genre = | movement = | notableworks = | website = }}Olympia Vernon (born May 22, 1973) is an African-American author who has published three novels: Eden (2002), Logic (2004), and A Killing In This Town (2006). Eden won the 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] Vernon was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and grew up in Mount Hermon, Louisiana and Osyka, Mississippi.[1] The family had seven children. Her father, Fletcher Williams, Jr., graduated from the University of Mississippi. Vernon attended South Pike High School in Magnolia, Mississippi. She received a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1999.[1] She also earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 2002.[1] She wrote Eden while in graduate school. In 2005 she received the Louisiana Governor's Award for Professional Artist of the Year. In 2007-08 Vernon was the Hallie Ford Chair in Writing at Willamette University.[1] In 2007, she won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for A Killing In This Town.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Langley, Greg. Olympia Vernon is winner of inaugural Gaines Award. The Advocate, December 9, 2007. External links
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