CRAZY Wins Awards

The Pulitzer Prize board announced its 91st annual awards for 2007 and CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness was named as a finalist for the general nonfiction prize. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq was the other finalist. The winner was The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 911. The Pulitzer Prize is considered one of the nation’s most prestigious writing awards.

Pete also was given the Outstanding Media Award for Advocacy by the National Alliance on Mental Illness at its 2007 annual convention. NAMI described CRAZY as “a book that is making a difference.”

CRAZY received the Ken Book Award from NAMI-NYC Chapter for “an outstanding literary contribution to a better understanding of mental illness.”

Mental Health America also selected an except from CRAZY, originally published by The Washingtonian Magazine, for the MHA’s 2007 Media Award given in the magazine category.

The Washington Psychiatric Society named CRAZY a 2007 advocacy award winner for excellence in coverage of mental health issues.

Eli Lilly chose CRAZY as a 2007 Lilly Reintegration Award for Public Service winner and donated $5,000 to the NAMI chapter of Miami Dade County in Pete’s name.

The Mental Health Association of Rhode Island presented an 2007 advocacy award to CRAZY.

NARSAD – the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression – asked Pete to be an honorary committee member for its 2007 Mission Possible Event.

In addition, Pete was appointed to serve on a criminal justice task force created by Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. to review and make recommendations about the state’s mental health laws.

He also was invited to join the Returning Home Advisory Commission of the Corporation for Supportive Housing which assists re-entry by persons from jails and prisons to reduce recidivism.

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