Phillip Hoose — the basketball town's historian, for young readers

BORN IN SOUTH BEND, 31 MAY 1947 · GREW UP HERE

The tie. Phillip Hoose was born in South Bend on 31 May 1947 and grew up in South Bend, Angola and Speedway — the publisher biographies carry the three towns together, and this entry prints all three rather than trimming the list to the one city. Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry formed him; he worked for the Nature Conservancy for thirty-seven years and lives in Portland, Maine. He is a writer in the basketball file's register too — his first book is the sport's Indiana history — and this entry is the books': both his National Book Award record and the full bibliography belong to a South Bend birth.

The shelf. The adult books come first chronologically: Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana (Vintage Books, 1986), the social history that opens with Indiana's first recorded game at Crawfordsville in 1894; Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports (1989); and the baseball memoir Perfect, Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me (Walker & Company, 2006). The young-readers shelf built his name: It's Our World, Too!: Stories of Young People Who Are Making a Difference (1993 in the State of Maine's bibliography of his work, which also credits it with a Christopher Award); Hey, Little Ant (1998), the picture book written with his daughter Hannah, which won a Jane Addams Children's Book Award; We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History (2001), a National Book Award finalist; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (2004), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner; Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2009), which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor and a Sibert Honor — the book that carried the story of the fifteen-year-old who refused her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks; Moonbird (2012), a Sibert Honor book; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (2015), a Sibert and Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book; Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City (2018) — Crispus Attucks, Indianapolis, and the basketball history come full circle — which won the 2020 Indiana Authors Award for children's literature and reached paperback as Unbeatable (Square Fish, 2022); then Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird (2022) and Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! (2024). Nearly all the young-readers books stand from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The honors stand in Awards; the conservation career stands in the Nature Conservancy's own record; the bibliography is this section's.

Sources:

1. State of Maine library bibliography of Hoose — Hoosiers (Vintage Books, 1986; Emmis Books ed., 1995), Necessities (1989), It's Our World, Too! (1993, Christopher Award), Hey, Little Ant (Tricycle Press, 1998, Jane Addams Children's Book Award), We Were There, Too! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, National Book Award finalist), Claudette Colvin (2009), Moonbird (2012, Sibert Honor), The Boys Who Challenged Hitler (2015, Sibert and Horn Book honors), Attucks! (2018).
2. The author's publisher biography (Macmillan) — the South Bend birth and the three hometowns (South Bend, Angola, Speedway), the thirty-seven years at the Nature Conservancy, and the Portland residence; Unbeatable as the Square Fish paperback of Attucks! (2022); Indiana Authors Award, children's, 2020.
3. Yale School of the Environment, alumni record — the Newbery, Sibert and Boston Globe–Horn Book honors in summary.