Oct 10, 2006
Tyler Perry won in the Humor category and Book of the Year for "Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings" at the 2006 Quill Awards.
Christopher Moore won in General Fiction for "A Dirty Job", Janet Evanovich's "Twelve Sharp" won in Mystery/Suspense, while Romance went to Nora Roberts for "Blue Smoke".
John Grogan won best Audio Book and best Biography/Memoire for "Marley and Me".
| Quill Awards - Book of the Year | |
| Tyler Perry (Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings) | |
| Quill Awards - General Fiction | |
| Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job) |    |
| Other Nominees: David Mitchell (Black Swan Green); EL Doctorow (The March); Irene Nemirovsky (Suite Francaise); Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants) | |
| Quill Awards - Mystery/Suspense | |
| Janet Evanovich (Twelve Sharp) |  |
| Other Nominees: Michael Connelly (The Lincoln Lawyer); Arthur Conan Doyle (A New Annotated Sherlock Holmes); Harlan Coben (Promise Me); Elizabeth Peters (Tomb of the Golden Bird) | |
| Quill Awards - Romance | |
| Nora Roberts (Blue Smoke) | |
| Other Nominees: Lauren Willig (The Masque of the Black Tulip); Beverly Lewis (The Preacher's Daughter); Mary Kay Andrews (Savannah Breeze); Mary Janice Davidson (Undead and Unpopular) | |
| Quill Awards - Biography/Memoir | |
| John Grogan (Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog) | |
| Other Nominees: Anderson Cooper (Dispatches from the Edge); Charles J Shields (Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee); JR Moehringer (The Tender Bar); Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking) | |
| Quill Awards - History/Current Affairs/Politics | |
| Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) |  |
| Other Nominees: Jonathan Harr (The Lost Painting); James L Swanson (Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer); Candice Millard (The River of Doubt); Doris Kearns (Team of Rivals) | |
| Quill Awards - Business | |
| Caitlin Friedman (The Girl's Guide To Being A Boss) | |
| and Kimberly Yorio | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Ehrenreich (Bait and Switch); Jim Collins (Good To Great and the Social Sectors); Lee Eisenberg (The Number); Charles Fishman (The Wal-Mart Effect) | |
| Quill Awards - Cooking | |
| Rachael Ray (Rachael Ray 365) | |
| Other Nominees: Bill Buford (Heat); Julie Powell (Julie and Julia); Julia Child (My Life In France); Phaidon Press Editors (The Silver Spoon) | |
| Quill Awards - Health/Self Improvement | |
| Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green) | |
| Other Nominees: Andrew Weil (Healthy Aging); Greg Behrendt (It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken); Tim Russert (Wisdom of Our Fathers); Michael F Roizen (YOU: The Smart Patient) | |
| Quill Awards - Humor | |
| Tyler Perry (Don't Make A Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings) | |
| Other Nominees: Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes); Bobby Henderson (The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster); Calvin Trillin (A Heckuva Job); Al Franken (The Truth with Jokes) | |
| Quill Awards - Poetry | |
| Maya Angelou (Amazing Peace) |  |
| Other Nominees: Garrison Keillor (Good Poems for Hard Times); Mary Oliver (New and Selected Poems); Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day); Billy Collins (The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems) | |
| Quill Awards - Religion/Spirituality | |
| TD Jakes (Mama Made the Difference) | |
| Other Nominees: Karen Armstrong (The Great Transformation); Bart D Ehrman (Misquoting Jesus); Alan Jacobs (The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of CS Lewis); Dalai Lama XIV (The Universe in a Single Atom) | |
| Quill Awards - Graphic Novel | |
| Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto Volume 7) | |
| Other Nominees: Alison Bechdel (Fun Home); Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (Maximum FF); Brian Fies (Mom's Cancer); Kohta Hirano (Hellsing Volume 7) | |
| Quill Awards - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror | |
| Diana Gabaldon (A Breath of Snow and Ashes) |  |
| Other Nominees: Stephen King (Cell); George RR Martin (A Feast for Crows); Kate Mosse (Labyrinth); Keith Donohue (The Stolen Child) | |
| Quill Awards - Sports | |
| Holly Robinson Peete (Get Your Own Damn Beer) | |
| Other Nominees: David Maraniss (Clemente); David Halberstam (The Education of a Coach); Don Haskins (Glory Road); Mike Greenberg (Why My Wife Thinks I'm An Idiot) | |
| Quill Awards - Audio Book | |
| John Grogan (Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog) | |
| Other Nominees: Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job); James L Swanson (Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer); Frank McCourt (Teacher Man); Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals) | |
| Quill Awards - Debut Author | |
| Julie Powell (Julie & Julia: 365 Days 524 Recipes 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen) | |
| Other Nominees: William Alexander (The $64 Tomato); Raymond Khoury (The Last Templar); Debra Dean (The Madonnas of Leningrad); Mike Leonard (The Ride of Our Lives) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Chapter Books | |
| Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril) | |
| Other Nominees: Carl Hiaasen (Flush); Cornelia Funke (Inkspell); Kate DiCamillo (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane); Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate) | |
| Quill Awards - Children's Picture Books | |
| Laura Joffe Numeroff (If You Give A Pig A Party) | |
| Other Nominees: Jane O'Connor (Fancy Nancy); Lane Smith (John Paul George & Ben); William Kotzwinkle; Glenn Murray; Elizabeth Gundy (Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise); Robert Sabuda (Winter's Tale) | |
| Quill Awards - Young Adult/Teen | |
| Christopher Paolini (Eldest) | |
| Other Nominees: Markus Zusak (The Book Thief); Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Dairy Queen); Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere); Frank Portman (King Dork) | |
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