Jeff Woodman

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Jeff Woodman is a narrator of audiobooks. [1] He has won twenty Earphone Awards and one Audie Award.

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Early life

Woodman was raised in New England. He graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase Conservatory Theater Program. [2]

Awards and honors

Awards

YearTitleAuthorAwardResultRef.
1993 I Am the Cheese (1977) Robert Cormier Earphone AwardWinner [3]
Who Was That Masked Man Anyway? (1992)AviEarphone AwardWinner [4]
1994 My Side of the Mountain (1958) Jean Craighead George Earphone AwardWinner [5]
1997The Friends (1992) Kazumi Yumoto Earphone AwardWinner [6]
1999 A Patchwork Planet (1998) Anne Tyler Earphone AwardWinner [7]
2001The Hindenburg Murders (2000) Max Allan Collins Earphone AwardWinner [8]
2002The Best Business Stories of the Year (2002) Andrew Leckey and Ken Auletta (Eds.)Earphone AwardWinner [9]
2003 Life of Pi (2001) Yann Martel Earphone AwardWinner [10]
Masquerade (1998) Walter Satterthwait Earphone AwardWinner [11]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) Mark Haddon Earphone AwardWinner [12]
Lord John and the Private Matter (2003) Diana Gabaldon Earphone AwardWinner [13]
The Venetian Affair (2003) Andrea di Robilant Earphone AwardWinner [14]
2005The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004) Liz Jensen Earphone AwardWinner [15]
Private Peaceful (2003) Michael Morpurgo Earphone AwardWinner [16]
2006 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) Jonathan Safran Foer Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist [17]
Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios Yann Martel Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist [17]
The Stolen Child Keith Donohue Listen-Up Award for Science Fiction/FantasyWinner [18]
2007The Air We Breathe (2007) Andrea Barrett Earphone AwardWinner [19]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Earphone AwardWinner [20]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Listen-Up Award for Children'sWinner [21]
Looking for Alaska (2005) John Green Audie Award for Young Adult Title Finalist [22]
The Stolen Child Keith Donohue Audie Award for Science Fiction Winner [22]
2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year Finalist [23]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Audie Award for Achievement in Production Finalist [23]
The Little Book (2008) Selden Edwards Earphone AwardWinner [24]
2010The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno (2010) Ellen Bryson Earphone AwardWinner [25]
2012 The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (2012) Jonathan Evison Earphone AwardWinner [26]
Rogue Island Bruce DeSilva Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [27]
2014 The End of Nature (1989) Bill McKibben Audie Award for Nonfiction Finalist [28] [29]
2015A Scourge of Vipers (2015) Bruce DeSilva Earphone AwardWinner [30]
Malice Keigo Higashino Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [31]
Providence Rag Bruce DeSilva Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [31]

"Best of" lists

Reedsy included Jeff Woodman's narration of Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon (1959) in their list of the top 30 science fiction audiobooks. [32]

YearTitleHonorRef.
2003 Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel AudioFile Best of Fiction [33]
2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) by Brian Selznick AudioFile Best of 2007 Children [33]
2008The Little Book (2008) by Selden EdwardsAudioFile Best of Historical Fiction [33]
The Air We Breathe (2007) by Andrea Barrett AudioFile Best of Historical Fiction [33]

Personal life

As of 2010, Woodman was living in New York City. [2]

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  2. 1 2 Forbus, Jen. "Audio Book Thursday: Narrator Jeff Woodman" . Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  3. ↑ "I AM THE CHEESE by Robert Cormier Read by Jeff Woodman John Randolph Jones | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. ↑ "WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN ANYWAY by Avi Read by Jeff Woodman John Randolph-Jones | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  5. ↑ "MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN by Jean Craighead George Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  6. ↑ "THE FRIENDS by Kazumi Yumoto Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  7. ↑ "A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  8. ↑ "THE HINDENBURG MURDERS by Max Allan Collins Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  9. ↑ "THE BEST BUSINESS STORIES OF THE YEAR 2002 by Andrew Leckey Ken Auletta Eds Read by Eliza Foss Beth McDonald Jeff Woodman Oliver Wyman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  10. ↑ "LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  11. ↑ "MASQUERADE by Walter Satterthwait Read by Emily Gray Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  12. ↑ "THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  13. ↑ "LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER by Diana Gabaldon Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  14. ↑ "THE VENETIAN AFFAIR by Andrea di Robilant Read by Paul Hecht Lisette Lecat Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  15. ↑ "THE NINTH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX by Liz Jensen Read by Gerard Doyle Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  16. ↑ "PRIVATE PEACEFUL by Michael Morpurgo Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  17. 1 2 "2006 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2022-08-31. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  18. ↑ Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (2007-01-01). "The 2006 Listen-Up Awards". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  19. ↑ "THE AIR WE BREATHE by Andrea Barrett Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  20. ↑ "THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  21. ↑ Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (2008-01-07). "The Listen Up Awards The Best Audios of 2007". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  22. 1 2 "2007 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2022-08-31. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  23. 1 2 "2008 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  24. ↑ "THE LITTLE BOOK by Selden Edwards Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  25. ↑ "THE TRANSFORMATION OF BARTHOLOMEW FORTUNO by Ellen Bryson Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  26. ↑ "THE REVISED FUNDAMENTALS OF CAREGIVING by Jonathan Evison Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  27. ↑ "2012 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  28. ↑ "2014 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  29. ↑ "2014 Audie Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly . 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  30. ↑ "A SCOURGE OF VIPERS by Bruce DeSilva Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  31. 1 2 "2015 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association . Archived from the original on 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  32. ↑ "The 30 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks For Science Fiction Fans". Discovery. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  33. 1 2 3 4 "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator Jeff Woodman". AudioFile Magazine . Retrieved 2022-09-05.
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