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Andrew Lawler is an author of historical nonfiction. Bylines in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and other publications.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialSome exciting news: "A Perfect Frenzy," winner of the Virginia Literary Awards 2026 People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction is being released in paperback on October 13!📚 It's the perfect gift for the upcoming holiday season. More details to come...
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialFrom moving fiction by Latine authors to award-winning history books, these titles will help you understand the Hispanic experience across North America.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialMy publisher, Groove Atlantic, has some great suggestions to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
Repost from Grove Atlantic:
Celebrate #hispanicheritagemonth and pick up one of these books! 📚
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPresented by Dominion Energy, the celebration was hosted by best-selling author and award-winning filmmaker Adriana Trigiani.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION: Virginia Evans | “The Correspondent” ART IN LITERATURE: THE MARY LYNN KOTZ AWARD: Sue Prideaux | “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin”
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPOETRY AWARD: MaKshya Tolbert | “Shade is a place” CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Meg Medina | “Graciela in the Abyss” PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR NONFICTION: Andrew Lawler | “A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution”
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialThe Virginia Literary Award winners: NONFICTION AWARD: Stephen Starring Grant | “Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home” FICTION AWARD: Princess Joy L. Perry | “This Here Is Love”
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialRepost from Library of Virginia: 🥂 What a night! Thank you to all who celebrated with us at Saturday night’s Virginia Literary Awards. Congratulations to the winners and finalists, as well as honorary Patron of Letters degree recipient Carly Fiorina.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialThanks to all those who voted for my book, which chronicles the long-neglected events in Tidewater Virginia that shaped the nation. (📸 Library of Virginia)
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialGreat news! "A Perfect Frenzy," just won the People's Choice Award for Nonfiction at the Library of Virginia's annual Virginia Literary Awards banquet.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialBritish Recruitment of Slaves during The Revolution: The enslaved population saw a path to freedom through the British conflict — American Revolution, but there participation and impact were never truly told in the history books. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🗽
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialFrom moving fiction by Latine authors to award-winning history books, these titles will help you understand the Hispanic experience across North America.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialMy publisher, Groove Atlantic, has some great suggestions to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
Repost from Grove Atlantic:
Celebrate #hispanicheritagemonth and pick up one of these books! 📚
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialIn this video by Bill's History World with Goober the Bear, I traced the wild final act of Lord Dunmore's Virginia campaign — a smallpox outbreak that decimated his troops in Norfolk harbor, forcing him to relocate to remote Gwynn’s Island.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialI spoke at Mathews Memorial Library in early July to talk about Virginia's key role in the early American Revolution.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.social"You don’t even have to learn to pronounce semiquincentennial, or even know what it means, to celebrate the holiday. But what if this Saturday were not the commemoration of the quarter-millennium birthday of the world’s most famous democracy?" 🗽🇺🇸 🇬🇧 bit.ly/4xZaK65
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialSome exciting news: "A Perfect Frenzy," winner of the Virginia Literary Awards 2026 People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction is being released in paperback on October 13!📚 It's the perfect gift for the upcoming holiday season. More details to come...
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPresented by Dominion Energy, the celebration was hosted by best-selling author and award-winning filmmaker Adriana Trigiani.
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION: Virginia Evans | “The Correspondent” ART IN LITERATURE: THE MARY LYNN KOTZ AWARD: Sue Prideaux | “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin”
@andrewlawlerauthor.bsky.socialPOETRY AWARD: MaKshya Tolbert | “Shade is a place” CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Meg Medina | “Graciela in the Abyss” PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR NONFICTION: Andrew Lawler | “A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution”