Brian Katcher

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Brian Katcher
Born1975 (age 4849)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Genre Young adult fiction
Notable works Almost Perfect (2009)
Children1
Website
briankatcher.com/site/

Brian Katcher (born 1975) is an American author of young adult fiction. His novel Almost Perfect won the 2011 Stonewall Book Award.

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Biography

Brian Katcher was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1975. He attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, then traveled and worked a variety of jobs before beginning his career as a writer. As of 2021, Katcher was living in central Missouri with his wife and daughter. [1]

Awards and honors

The American Library Association included Almost Perfect on their list of ALA Rainbow Book List (2010), [2] Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2012), [3] and Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2013). [4]

YearTitleAwardResultRef.
2011Almost PerfectJames Cook Book AwardNominee [5]
Stonewall Book Award Winner [6] [7]
Playing with MatchesMissouri Gateway Readers AwardNominee [8]
North Carolina Young Adult Book AwardWinner [9] [ better source needed ]
2017The Improbable Theory of Ana and ZakMissouri Gateway Readers AwardNominee [10]
2020Deacon Locke Went to PromSouth Carolina Book Award for Young AdultNominee [11] [ better source needed ]

Publications

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