Quill Award
The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. it was created to inspire reading while promoting Literacy.
Winners (2006)
- Book of the Year: Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, Tyler Perry
- Children's Chapter Book/Middle Grade: Lemony Snicket
- Young Adult/Teen: Eldest, Christopher Paolini
- Graphic Novel: Naruto, Volume 7, Masashi Kishimoto
- Poetry: Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem, Maya Angelou
- Romance: Blue Smoke, Nora Roberts
- Cooking: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners, Rachael Ray
- Health/Self Improvement: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider, Jim Henson
- History/Current Events/Politics: An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
- Humor: Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, Tyler Perry
- Sports: Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game!: A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football, Holly Robinson Peete
- Variety Blockbuster Book to Film: The Devil Wears Prada and its film adaptation author Lauren Weisberger and director david frankel
Winners (2005)
The foundation awarded a Quills Corporate Literacy Award to Verizon for its support of Literacy programs in the United States