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When Gene Luen Yang takes on a big project, the literary world takes notice: He was the first graphic novelist to have his work nominated for the National Book Award in 2006, when his American Born ...

Boxers & Saints has been longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Gene Luen Yang's new historical two-volume graphic novel is up for the prestigious US prize. His ...

Gene Luen Yang has been getting a lot of attention from prize juries for his two-part graphic novel for young adults, “Boxers and Saints.” Set at the end of the 19th century, it begins with the story ...

Senators Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer team Friday Oct.21 when New York’s Clinton introduces California’s Boxer to celebrate publication of the latter’s first novel, “A Time To Run” (Chronicla ...

Howard Schatz’s 19 th book, At the Fights, is a 224-page opus on professional boxers, or, as he puts it, “rare and unusual individuals” shot both in studio and on location at gyms and stadiums around ...