Jane Brox wins Maine Literary Award
Congratulations to CCLA’s Jane Brox, whose book SILENCE: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019) has won the Maine Literary Awards Book Award for Nonfiction.
Jane is the author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2010 by Time magazine; Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm; Five Thousand Days Like This One, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Here and Nowhere Else, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award.
Jane also contributes essays to The New Yorker online. Most recently, her piece “The Riddle of Solitude in the Age of Coronavirus” was published in May.