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  • Lessing Gets Bump After Nobel Nod

    HarperPerennial, the paperback imprint which holds the copyright to recent Nobel winner Doris Lessing's backlist, has announced it is going back to press for 200,000 copies of its 22 books by the author.

  • ‘Bourne’ Books Among Quill Special Winners

    Three special awards to be given out during the Quills were announced today by Reed Business Information, PW’s parent company and Quills founder.

  • Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize

    His publisher is calling the honor not only a well-deserved recognition for the man, but affirmation of the power of books.

  • Lessing´s Nobel Win Thrills Publisher

    As news spread through the Frankfurt Book Fair Thursday afternoon that HarperCollins author Doris Lessing had just won the Nobel Prize for literature, her publisher´s booth filled up with journalists brandishing cameras and notebooks and colleagues offering hugs and congratulations. For just a few minutes, the search for the next big thing became secondary to celebrating the the 87-year-old British writer´s decades of achievement.

  • Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

    Swedish Academy cites "skepticism, fire and visionary power"

  • FSG Grabs 3 Fiction NBA Nominees

    The 20 finalists for the 2007 National Book Awards--winners will be named at the NBA Benefit Dinner in Manhattan on November 14--were announced this morning in Philadelphia by author and social critic Camille Paglia at the Library Company in Philadelphia, the oldest public library in America. FSG garnered four nominees, including three in fiction.

  • Joe Keenan Wins Thurber Prize

    Joe Keenan has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his novel My Lucky Star (Back Bay Books).

  • A Winning Week: PW Talks with Stuart Dybek

    Short story writer and poet Stuart Dybek, winner of a MacArthur "Genius" grant and the Rae Award for the Short Story, has had a really big week. PW checked in with him to see how it's been.

  • “Genius” Dybek Also Wins Rae Short Story Award

    Short story writer Stuart Dybek wins his second honor in two days.

  • Stuart Dybek Named MacArthur "Genius"

    Fiction writer Stuart Dybek and poet, translator and publisher Peter Cole are among the 24 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowships, an honor that carries a half million prize.

  • NBF Honors “5 Under 35”

    A few young literary talents are getting their due from the National Book Foundation this fall. On November 10, the NBF will honor five authors under the age of 35 in a celebration dubbed “5 Under 35.”

  • McCarthy, Gore, Isaacson Win Quill Awards

    Cormac McCarthy, Al Gore and Walter Isaacson are among the winners of the third annual Quill Book Awards. McCarthy wins in the general fiction category for The Road, while Gore will take home the prize in history/current events/politics for The Assault on Reason, and Isaacson wins in the biography category for Einstein.

  • Eggers Wins $250,000 Heinz Award

    Writer, editor, publisher and founder of 826 Valencia writing laboratories has been named this year’s winner of the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities category.

  • NBCC Looks at Book Reviewing

    To examine the changing face of book reviewing, the NBCC has established a weeklong symposium dedicated to the topic, “The Age of Infinite Margins: Book Critics Face the 21st Century.”

  • National Book Foundation to Honor Didion and Gross

    The National Book Foundation will commemorate the literary achievements of Joan Didion and Terry Gross at its November 14 awards ceremony in New York City.

  • Cormac McCarthy Wins James Tait Black Award

    Cormac McCarthy has won the 2006 James Tait Black Award for fiction for The Road.

  • McCarthy, Lee Among Quills Winners

    Corman McCarthy's The Road and an audio edition of To Kill a Mockingbird were among the winners in the third annual Quills Award. All 19 prize winners will receive their awards October 22 where Stephen Colbert will be among those presenting the awards. NBC will air the ceremony on October 27.

  • 2007 Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

  • Awards Honor Tomorrow’s Sci-Fi Stars

    Sci-Fi author/editor Charles N. Brown won a Lifetime Achievement Award and 22 winners of the International Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests were honored on August 24th at the 23rd L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards held at the Athenaeum Club on the CalTech campus in Pasadena.

  • NBCC Launches Author-Critic Pairings on Blog

    NBCC has added a new feature to its blog, one which has a critic look at an author's work.

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