The USA PEN literary organization has announced that it will bestow its Lifetime Achievement Award to Elmore Leonard. The award will be given in Beverly Hills on December 2, 2009. Congratulations!
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Elmore Leonard Honored
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News
Tags: Award·Elmore Leonard·USA PEN
Vote for National Book Award Favorite
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Overheard (Industry News)
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The National Book Foundation has invited readers to vote for one of six finalists for the all-time Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. The shortlist of titles that have previously won the National and American Book Awards for fiction was selected by 140 writers from across the U.S. The NBF [...]
Tags: contest·national book awards
“‘Chastening experience’ has Keillor pondering show’s future”
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News
Not a quiet week in Lake Wobegon for fans, friends, and family of A Prairie Home Companion and the man behind it, Garrison Keillor, who is recovery (well and rapidly, so far, knock wood) from a stroke.
A news story and a New York Times op ed piece by Keillor provide [...]
Kristof and WuDunn Win Literary Peace Prize
September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Author News
The husband-and-wife writing team of Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award for their work in exposing human rights issues in Africa and Asia.
Their new book, Half the Sky, is available on audio from HighBridge, read by Cassandra Campbell.
Congratulations on a well-deserved honor!
