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Awards for Excellence In Writing

2001 Top Hand Award:  The novel Reaching for the Reins won this award from the Colorado Authors' League for young-adult book length fiction in 2001.

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2000 Wrangler Award:  An excerpt article from Angels In Disguise won the Wrangler Award at the 2000 Western Heritage Awards in Oklahoma City's Cowboy Hall of Fame. 

Lou Dean Accepting The 2000 Wrangler Award

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1999 Nominee of the Colorado Blue Spruce Award:  The true story, Angels in Disguise was a 1999 nominee for the prestigious Colorado Blue Spruce Award.

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1995 Writer's Digest National Self-Published Book Award:  The book Angels In Disguise received First Prize from the 1995 Writer's Digest National Self-Published book award for life stories.

News Clippings

People Magazine, December 23, 1996

Michael A. Lipton and Janice Min

with reports by Luchiya Fisher, Cathy Free, Stu Glauberman,

Laurel Brubaker Calkins, and Gail Wescott

A Writer Is Convinced: Animals Are Angels Too

Growing up in Osage County, Okla., the third of four children, Lou Dean had a knack for forming friendships with her family's farm animals.  Princess the horse, Old Mott the cow, even Mr. Grunt, the pig.  "I was alone most of the day," explains Dean, 48, whose father worked as a night railroad switchman and whose mother drank excessively.  "They became my family."  Her tightest bond, though, was with Shorty, a terrier pup she was given on her fifth birthday.  "When I went away to college it was real hard," says Dean.  "Both of us knew it was goodbye because Shorty was getting old."    ..... See the December 23, 1996 issue of People Magazine.

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