C4F to Honor Lynn Nesbit, Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale'
The Center for Fiction has announced its lineup of honorees who will receive awards at the Center’s annual benefit and awards dinner in New York City on December 10.
Literary agent Lynn Nesbit, co-founder of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, is the recipient of the 2019 Maxwell E. Perkins Award, to be presented by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Andrew Sean Greer. the award "recognizes an editor, publisher, or agent who over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction in the United States."
Author Margaret Atwood, Craig Erwich, Hulu’s senior v-p of originals; and Bruce Miller, creator and showrunner of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, will receive the Center’s inaugural On Screen Award, which honors the creation of original series that "mirror the complexity and vision of great novels."
At the dinner, the recipient of the Center for Fiction 2019 First Novel Prize will also be announced.
