Jeff Woodman

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Jeff Woodman is a narrator of audiobooks.[1] He has won twenty Earphone Awards and one Audie Award.

Early life[edit]

Woodman was raised in New England. He graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase Conservatory Theater Program.[2]

Awards and honors[edit]

Awards[edit]

Year Title Author Award Result Ref.
1993 I Am the Cheese (1977) Robert Cormier Earphone Award Winner [3]
Who Was That Masked Man Anyway? (1992) Avi Earphone Award Winner [4]
1994 My Side of the Mountain (1958) Jean Craighead George Earphone Award Winner [5]
1997 The Friends (1992) Kazumi Yumoto Earphone Award Winner [6]
1999 A Patchwork Planet (1998) Anne Tyler Earphone Award Winner [7]
2001 The Hindenburg Murders (2000) Max Allan Collins Earphone Award Winner [8]
2002 The Best Business Stories of the Year (2002) Andrew Leckey and Ken Auletta (Eds.) Earphone Award Winner [9]
2003 Life of Pi (2001) Yann Martel Earphone Award Winner [10]
Masquerade (1998) Walter Satterthwait Earphone Award Winner [11]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) Mark Haddon Earphone Award Winner [12]
Lord John and the Private Matter (2003) Diana Gabaldon Earphone Award Winner [13]
The Venetian Affair (2003) Andrea di Robilant Earphone Award Winner [14]
2005 The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (2004) Liz Jensen Earphone Award Winner [15]
Private Peaceful (2003) Michael Morpurgo Earphone Award Winner [16]
2006 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) Jonathan Safran Foer Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist [17]
Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios Yann Martel Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist [17]
The Stolen Child Keith Donohue Listen-Up Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy Winner [18]
2007 The Air We Breathe (2007) Andrea Barrett Earphone Award Winner [19]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Earphone Award Winner [20]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Listen-Up Award for Children's Winner [21]
Looking for Alaska (2005) John Green Audie Award for Young Adult Title Finalist [22]
The Stolen Child Keith Donohue Audie Award for Science Fiction Winner [22]
2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year Finalist [23]
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) Brian Selznick Audie Award for Achievement in Production Finalist [23]
The Little Book (2008) Selden Edwards Earphone Award Winner [24]
2010 The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno (2010) Ellen Bryson Earphone Award Winner [25]
2012 The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (2012) Jonathan Evison Earphone Award Winner [26]
Rogue Island Bruce DeSilva Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [27]
2014 The End of Nature (1989) Bill McKibben Audie Award for Nonfiction Finalist [28][29]
2015 A Scourge of Vipers (2015) Bruce DeSilva Earphone Award Winner [30]
Malice Keigo Higashino Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [31]
Providence Rag Bruce DeSilva Audie Award for Mystery Finalist [31]

"Best of" lists[edit]

Reedsy included Jeff Woodman's narration of Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon (1959) in their list of the top 30 science fiction audiobooks.[32]

Year Title Honor Ref.
2003 Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel AudioFile Best of Fiction [33]
2007 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) by Brian Selznick AudioFile Best of 2007 Children [33]
2008 The Little Book (2008) by Selden Edwards AudioFile Best of Historical Fiction [33]
The Air We Breathe (2007) by Andrea Barrett AudioFile Best of Historical Fiction [33]

Personal life[edit]

As of 2010, Woodman was living in New York City.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Newman, Andrew Adam (2006-01-20). "How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  2. ^ a b Forbus, Jen. "Audio Book Thursday: Narrator Jeff Woodman". Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  3. ^ "I AM THE CHEESE by Robert Cormier Read by Jeff Woodman John Randolph Jones | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. ^ "WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN ANYWAY by Avi Read by Jeff Woodman John Randolph-Jones | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  5. ^ "MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN by Jean Craighead George Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  6. ^ "THE FRIENDS by Kazumi Yumoto Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  7. ^ "A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  8. ^ "THE HINDENBURG MURDERS by Max Allan Collins Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  9. ^ "THE BEST BUSINESS STORIES OF THE YEAR 2002 by Andrew Leckey Ken Auletta Eds Read by Eliza Foss Beth McDonald Jeff Woodman Oliver Wyman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  10. ^ "LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  11. ^ "MASQUERADE by Walter Satterthwait Read by Emily Gray Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  12. ^ "THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  13. ^ "LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER by Diana Gabaldon Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  14. ^ "THE VENETIAN AFFAIR by Andrea di Robilant Read by Paul Hecht Lisette Lecat Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  15. ^ "THE NINTH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX by Liz Jensen Read by Gerard Doyle Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine]]. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  16. ^ "PRIVATE PEACEFUL by Michael Morpurgo Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  17. ^ a b "2006 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-08-31. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  18. ^ Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (2007-01-01). "The 2006 Listen-Up Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  19. ^ "THE AIR WE BREATHE by Andrea Barrett Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  20. ^ "THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  21. ^ Howell, Kevin; Maughan, Shannon (2008-01-07). "The Listen Up Awards The Best Audios of 2007". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  22. ^ a b "2007 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-08-31. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  23. ^ a b "2008 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  24. ^ "THE LITTLE BOOK by Selden Edwards Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  25. ^ "THE TRANSFORMATION OF BARTHOLOMEW FORTUNO by Ellen Bryson Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  26. ^ "THE REVISED FUNDAMENTALS OF CAREGIVING by Jonathan Evison Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  27. ^ "2012 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  28. ^ "2014 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2021-03-10. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  29. ^ "2014 Audie Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly. 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  30. ^ "A SCOURGE OF VIPERS by Bruce DeSilva Read by Jeff Woodman | Audiobook Review". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  31. ^ a b "2015 Audie Awards® - APA (en-US)". Audio Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  32. ^ "The 30 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks For Science Fiction Fans". Discovery. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
  33. ^ a b c d "AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Narrator Jeff Woodman". AudioFile Magazine. Retrieved 2022-09-05.