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.