HCHS Librarian Eugene Lim awarded 44th annual John Dos Passos Prize for Literature!

Our own high school librarian and accomplished novelist Eugene Lim has been selected as the winner of the 44th Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a literary award given annually by Longwood University to a talented American writer who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and merits further recognition.

Lim is best known for his novels Search History (2021), Dear Cyborgs (2017) and The Strangers (2013). He was selected from  a shortlist of five finalists.

The John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, honors a writer whose work offers incisive and original insights into American themes while encompassing a wide range of human experience. 

Click here to read more about this extraordinary acknowledgement of his writing.  Congratulations Mr. Lim!