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Bruder's "Nomadland" was named a New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice, along with the 2017 Discover award, and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book award. Bruder teaches narrative storytelling at Columbia Journalism School and has been contributing to the New York Times for more than a decade. She is the w88 online game of "Burning Book" and is currently writing about trust in the age of surveillance.
The Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer Award was established in 2001 to inspire a new generation of writers and honors journalists who work in varied forms of writing.
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