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ABOUT LYDA AND HER WRITING
Lyda Phillips was born in San Antonio, Texas, went to school in Memphis, Tenn., and has degrees from
Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt universities. She has worked as a journalist for trade papers, weeklies, dailies and
United Press International. She has also worked for political campaigns, as a political pollster and public relations executive.
Her real love has always been writing.
Lyda Phillips' novels have been featured at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., on Memphis television talk show WREG's Live@9 and at the Downtown Memphis Rotary Club; the Southern Festival
of Books in Nashville, Tenn., the Children's Multicultural Book Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the
Inde Pen Series at Karibu Books, and the Baltimore Book Festival.
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NOVELS: Mr. Touchdown - FIRST PLACE,
Writers Notes Book Awards, juvenile fiction, HONORABLE MENTION, Independent Publishers Book Awards, multicultural juvenile
fiction. Peace I Ask of Thee,
Oh River - FIRST PLACE, Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, juvenile fiction; FINALIST,
Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards, young adult fiction
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Other
Novels for Young Readers:
FALCON'S WAY: Shared danger breaks down the emotional barriers
between a boy and his father, who can’t talk about the death of the boy’s mother. Second
Place 1999 Pikes Peak Writers Conference contest, children's fiction
REDBONE: In Depression-era
Louisiana, Dibby Winslow defies the prejudices of his community, and even his own family, to save a mixed-race Redbone family
in the wake of a lynching.
BLUE HOLE: In this sequel to Redbone, Dibby Winslow and his sister,
Agnes, fight their own father to save the family’s last stand of virgin pine timber and their beloved blue hole spring
deep in the woods.
GRANNYNAPPING: Reg Richards, determined to find his father who ran away to
New Orleans with a client, seizes his opportunity when he’s asked to accompany his disagreeable grandmother on a trip
to visit her sister.
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JOURNALISM AWARDS:
Tennessee Press Association and the Tennessee Associated Press
Editors for series on legislative spending
Tennessee Trial Lawyers Freedom Award for coverage of workers' compensation
insurance reform
Fellow, The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland in financial markets
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