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ABOUT LYDA AND HER WRITING
Lyda Phillips was born in San Antonio, Texas, went to school in Memphis, Tenn., and has degrees from Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt universities. She has worked as a journalist for trade papers, weeklies, dailies and United Press International. She has also worked for political campaigns, as a political pollster and public relations executive. Her real love has always been writing.
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SELF-PUBLISHED NOVELS: Mr. Touchdown - FIRST PLACE, Writers Notes Book Awards, juvenile fiction, Honorable Mention, Independent Publishers Book Awards. Peace I Ask of Thee, Oh River - FIRST PLACE, Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, juvenile fiction; FINALIST, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards, young adult fiction
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Other Novels for Young Readers:
FALCON'S WAY: Shared danger breaks down the emotional barriers between a boy and his father, who can’t talk about the death of the boy’s mother. Second Place 1999 Pikes Peak Writers Conference contest, children's fiction
REDBONE: In Depression-era Louisiana, Dibby Winslow defies the prejudices of his community, and even his own family, to save a mixed-race Redbone family in the wake of a lynching.
BLUE HOLE: In this sequel to Redbone, Dibby Winslow and his sister, Agnes, fight their own father to save the family’s last stand of virgin pine timber and their beloved blue hole spring deep in the woods.
GRANNYNAPPING: Reg Richards, determined to find his father who ran away to New Orleans with a client, seizes his opportunity when he’s asked to accompany his disagreeable grandmother on a trip to visit her sister.
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JOURNALISM AWARDS:
Tennessee Press Association and the Tennessee Associated Press Editors for series on legislative spending
Tennessee Trial Lawyers Freedom Award for coverage of workers' compensation insurance reform
Fellow, The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland in financial markets
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