January 22, 2020
LAS VEGAS — The Professional Outdoor Media Association[1] (POMA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation[2]® (NSSF®) honored novelist and Pulitzer Award winner Stephen Hunter[3] with the prestigious POMA/NSSF Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award[4].
The award recognizes extraordinary achievements in communications and in support of our hunting heritage and firearm freedoms.
Hunter is 40-year veteran author of more than a dozen novels and is known for exacting technical details about firearms and shooting. His 1993 novel “Point of Impact” was made into the movie “Shooter,” starring Mark Wahlberg, which grossed almost 100 million dollars. Hunter is an avid shooter. His latest novel is “Game of Snipers,” which continues the wildly-successful series featuring American sniper Bob Lee Swagger. In his 2001 novel “Pale Horse Coming,” Hunter built the plot around characters which were based loosely on famous gun writers of the past.
As the film critic for the Washington Post, Hunter received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2003.
Grits Gresham’s son, Tom Gresham, host of the nationally-syndicated Gun Talk Radio and a book author, presented Hunter with the award during the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show[5]® in Las Vegas, NV.
“I’ve been a Stephen Hunter fan since 1980, when I read ‘Master Sniper,'” said Gresham. “I remember thinking then that this guy knows guns and is bringing technical accuracy to popular fiction. The attention and wide-spread following Hunter’s novels garnered have caused other writers to work harder to get the details right on firearms. Stephen also has exposed the world of the law-abiding gun owner to a greater audience.”
Hunter lives in Maryland and is working on his next novel.
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