Complex sentence: Gin Phillips (Birmingham, Alabama) is an American author of three novels, the first of which, "The Well and the Mine", was awarded the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award, a $10,000 prize for a first novel.
Split into simpler sentences: Gin Phillips (Birmingham, Alabama) is an American author. Her first novel, "The Well and the Mine", was awarded the 2009 Barnes & Noble Discover Award, a $10,000 prize for a first novel.