Saunders, Ellsberg among Carnegie Medal finalists
NEW YORK — Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders, National Book Award finalist Jesmyn Ward and Daniel Ellsberg of “The Pentagon Papers” fame are in the running for prizes handed out by the American...
View ArticleCynthia Nixon to host the National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Cynthia Nixon’s new role will be on the bookish side. The award-winning actress is hosting the National Book Awards ceremony, the National Book Foundation announced Tuesday. The Nov. 15...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward, Masha Gessen win National Book Awards
NEW YORK — Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” a surreal and poetic novel about a struggling family in Mississippi, on Wednesday night won the National Book Award for fiction. It was the second time...
View ArticleAward-winning author and professor accused of harassment
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Former students at the University of Virginia have accused a creative writing professor and National Book Award winner of sexual harassment. The Daily Progress in Charlottesville...
View ArticleWoodson named ‘young people’s literature’ ambassador
NEW YORK — Jacqueline Woodson, the country’s next National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, originally had someone else in mind for the job. “It’s funny, because I called him (current...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward, Masha Gessen among nominees for critics awards
NEW YORK — Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” winner of the National Book Award for fiction, is now a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Other finalists announced Monday include...
View ArticleNational Book Awards add translation category
NEW YORK — Starting this fall, works in translation will get a spotlight at the National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation announced Wednesday that it has started a category for best translated...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward, prize-winning author, has 2 new novels planned
NEW YORK — National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has her next two novels planned. On Wednesday, Scribner told The Associated Press that Ward will write an adult novel about an enslaved woman sent from...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward a finalist for PEN/Faulkner award.
NEW YORK — Prize-winning author Jesmyn Ward is up for another fiction award. Ward’s novel “Sing, Unburied, Sing” is among five finalists announced Wednesday for the PEN/Faulkner prize. Ward won the...
View ArticlePoet Lucie Brock-Broido dead at 61
NEW YORK — Lucie Brock-Broido, a prize-winning poet and educator, has died at age 61. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Wednesday that Brock-Broido died Tuesday at her home in Cambridge,...
View ArticleJesmyn Ward and N. Scott Momaday win Anisfield-Wolf Awards
NEW YORK — Prize-winning novelists Jesmyn Ward and N. Scott Momaday are among this year’s winners of Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, given for works that highlight race and diversity. Ward was honored...
View ArticleJack Gantos’ next Joey Pigza story is audio only
NEW YORK — For his next tale about the chaotic life of young Joey Pigza, Jack Gantos has a special pitch. Gantos is releasing “The Dented Head of Joey Pigza” as an original audiobook. The audio...
View ArticleMusic Pulitzer goes to rapper Lamar; fiction prize to ‘Less’
NEW YORK — Pulitzer judges upended decades of tradition by awarding its music prize Monday to Kendrick Lamar for his rap album “DAMN.,” a sharp departure from the classical and jazz works the body have...
View ArticleNational Book Award winner to address Tulane grads
NEW ORLEANS — Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward will deliver the keynote address for Tulane University’s Commencement ceremonies next month. Tulane President Mike Fitts says Ward joined...
View ArticleTom Wolfe, pioneering ‘New Journalist,’ dead at 88
NEW YORK — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such...
View ArticlePhilip Roth, fearless and celebrated author, dies at 85
NEW YORK — Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of “Portnoy’s Complaint” to the elegiac lyricism of “American...
View ArticlePrize-winning children’s author Richard Peck dies at 84
NEW YORK — Prize-winning children’s author Richard Peck, who drew upon his Illinois roots for such favorites as “A Long Way from Chicago” and “A Year Down Yonder,” has died. Peck died on Wednesday at...
View ArticleCoates leaves The Atlantic, where he rose to prominence
NEW YORK — Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving his job as a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he rose to prominence over the past decade. In a company email shared Friday with The Associated...
View ArticleWard, Rushdie draw large crowds at Mississippi book fest
JACKSON, Miss. — National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward told a home-state audience in Mississippi on Saturday that she’s working on two books. One is a New Orleans-based story about the slave trade....
View ArticleLonglists for National Book Awards include 2 novels in verse
NEW YORK — A new novel by M.T. Anderson and a pair of novels in verse were among those on the National Book Awards longlist in young people’s literature. Also Wednesday, an Italian novel translated by...
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