Bestselling Books of the Year, 1996-2007 03/24/2008
More than a decade worth of PW's bestselling books of the year (the top 15 fiction and 15 nonfiction bestselling hardcovers) from 1996 to 2007. More
Peter Matthiessen, Annette Gordon Reed Among National Book Award Winners By Craig Morgan Teicher - 11/19/2008
The 2008 National Book Awards ceremony was held Wednesday night at Cipriani on Wall Street in downtown New York City. Cipriani was a new location for the awards. Host Eric Bogosian opened the ceremony by noting that Barack Obama’s win in the Presidential election is good news for many, including those attending the awards ceremony because he “is a reader and a writer.” Obama’s election was, in fact, a recurring theme among the evening speakers.
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Quill Awards Program Suspended 02/25/2008 PW’s parent company, Reed Business Information, has announced plans to suspend support of the Quill Awards program.
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The Year in Awards 12/31/2007
If you got through the whole year without having to change into formal wear in the office restroom, here's a sampling of what you missed—other than the pigs in a blanket. (The rosters of winners for some of the more magnanimous prizes have been abridged.) • Newbery Medal • The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (S&S/Atheneum/Jackson) • Cal...
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A Winning Night by Staff - 11/19/2007
The ghost of Norman Mailer, who died November 10, seemed to preside over the 58th annual National Book Awards, held November 14 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City's Times Square. Indeed, this year's gala awards ceremony was marked by the oddly appropriate combination of an unruly picketline of strikers outside the hotel and the many heartfelt tributes by NBA award-winners to Mailer'...
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Johnson, Weiner Win National Book Awards By Calvin Reid - 11/14/2007
Denis Johnson’s bulging and brilliant Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke, published by FSG, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction at this year’s gala awards ceremony at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. The nonfiction award went to Tim Weiner’s damning examination of American intelligence policy, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA from Doubleday.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Young People's Literature By Elizabeth Devereaux - 11/12/2007
Turning to the Young People’s Literature category of the National Book Awards, the finalists include three hard-hitting coming-of-age novels, two of them set within minority communities; one fantasy; and an illustrated book with a strong fantasy component.
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Betting on Books: Spotlight on Nonfiction By Mark Rotella - 11/08/2007
Taking a look at Nonfiction for the next installment of our pre-National Book Awards coverage, of the five NBA finalists this year, PW gave stars to three and named two to our 2007 Best Books list.
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