Topic: National Book Foundation
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for "Salvage the Bones," about a poor Mississippi family confronting Hurricane Katrina, while Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction prize for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern."Ward ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Young adult novelist Lauren Myracle said on Monday she had withdrawn her latest novel "Shine" from the 2011 National Book Awards after being told it had been short-listed by mistake.Myracle, author of teen best-sellers "ttyl" and ttfn" and ...
Story Award-winning books tell captivating stories. It is important to understand the difference between poorly worded sentences and great sentences, and award-winning books will give you good examples. Reading good books also enhances your vocabulary and, according to Home School Marketplace. " Reading ...
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has announced the 2009 Award winners. The winner in the Young People's Literature category is Claudette Colvin: Phillip Hoose's riveting and intelligent portrait incorporates photographs and other galvanizing primary source ...
National Book Awards celebrate New York stories as honorees ponder the future of literatureThe 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday ...
Tycoon stories and Darwin books get National Book Award nominationsThe subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.Biographies about tycoons Henry Ford and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the finalists announced Wednesday, along with two ...
The National Book Awards tried to glam things up, with mixed results. Narciso Rodriguez told us about Michelle Obama's controversial Election Night dress at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards. We caught up with the MisShapes at Christian Siriano's birthday ...
The National Book Awards tried to glam things up, with mixed results. Narciso Rodriguez told us about Michelle Obama's controversial Election Night dress at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards. We caught up with the MisShapes at Christian Siriano's birthday ...
Twenty authors attended Wednesday night's National Book Awards ceremony as finalists, each of them selected by a committee of readers made up of poets, novelists, historians, and critics of all stripes. The New York Times reported on the finalists here in ...
At around 1 o'clock Thursday morning, Morgan Entrekin decided it was time to extract himself from the dance floor at Socialista and head home. Like Gene Hackman in Hoosiers or, what the hell, Sylvester Stallone in that last Rocky movie, Mr ...
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David McCullough: 2011 National Book Festival
Historian and author David McCullough appears at the 2011 National ...2011-10-04 -
Richard Hell hosts National Book Foundation ...
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Sarah Braunstein, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (WW Norton ...2011-05-12
