Awards & Winners

Charles Hawes

Date of Birth 24-January-1889
Place of Birth Clifton Springs
(Ontario County, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Charles Boardman Hawes was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville".

Awards by Charles Hawes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles Hawes.

1924


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Dark Frigate

Nominations 1924 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Dark Frigate

1922


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The great quest

Nominations 1922 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The great quest