American Library Association Meeting now! Update 1

From the GLBTQ Roundtable:

 This is the 39th anniversary of the Stonewall Book Awards.  For the first time we will be presenting an award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.  That award will go to Nick Burd for his young adult novel "The Vast Fields of Ordinary", published by the Penguin Group. 

Authors of two honor books for that award will also be recognized at this event.  They are Marcus Ewert, who wrote "10,000 Dresses", published by Seven Stories Press, and Linas Alsenas, who wrote "Gay America: Struggle for Equality", published by Amulet Books.

The Barbara Gittings Literature Award will go to David Francis for his novel "Stray Dog Winter", published by MacAdam/Cage. 

The author of the honor book "God Says No", James Hannaham, will also be recognized.  His book was published by McSweeney's Publishing.

The Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award will go to Nathaniel Frank for his work "Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America", published by St. Martin's Press. 

Honor author Stewart Weisberg will also be recognized for his book "Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman, published by the University of Massachusetts Press.