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  1. Caro Wins $10,000 History Prize

    Thu, 18 Apr 2013

    Mark Lynton History prize. Caro, whose many honors during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award , will receive $10,000. On Thursday, Columbia University announced two other honors. Andrew Solomon won the J

  2. Caro Wins $10,000 History Prize

    Thu, 18 Apr 2013

    Mark Lynton History prize. Caro, whose many honors during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award , will receive $10,000. On Thursday, Columbia University announced two other honors. Andrew Solomon won the J

  3. Caro Wins $10,000 History Prize

    Thu, 18 Apr 2013

    Mark Lynton History prize. Caro, whose many honors during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award , will receive $10,000. On Thursday, Columbia University announced two other honors. Andrew Solomon won the J

  4. Caro Wins $10,000 History Prize

    Thu, 18 Apr 2013

    Mark Lynton History prize. Caro, whose many honors during the past 40 years have included the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award , will receive $10,000. On Thursday, Columbia University announced two other honors. Andrew Solomon won the J

  5. Patti Smith: Amy Winehouse Tribute Song Wasn't Planned

    Thu, 7 Jun 2012

    photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, also deceased, actor Johnny Depp and the late Amy Winehouse. Smith, who won the National Book Award in 2010 for her memoir, "Just Kids," said she didn't set out to write a song about Winehouse, it "came by accident

  6. Last Rights for JD Salinger: Genius or Just Average?

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010

    published "The Trial" and "The Castle." "Max Brod made the right decision" said Jonathan Franzen , who won the National Book Award for his 2001 novel "The Corrections. "Kafka changed my life. Obviously it was good to disobey." The fact that Salinger's

News

  1. Cast Your Vote For A Great Book

    Mon, 21 Sep 2009

    According to the Associated Press, The National Book Awards wants your vote. The award -- one of the most prestigious literary prizes around -- has been around for sixty years. Now those

  2. Excerpt: 'Along for the Ride'

    Tue, 30 Jun 2009

    Fast-forward four years, to my birth, and my dad, riding a wave of critical and commercial success—NYT best seller list, National Book Award nominee—was heading up the creative writing program, while my mom was, as she liked to put it, "lost in a sea of

  3. Excerpt: 'Matters of the Heart'

    Wed, 17 Jun 2009

    Steel's latest novel, "Matters of the Heart," Hope Dunne is known as one of the world's best photographers and National Book Award winner Finn O'Neill wants her to do the cover for his upcoming book. The two are only in London a few days, but Hope

  4. Excerpt: 'Matters of the Heart'

    Tue, 16 Jun 2009

    is known as one of the world's best photographers and National Book Award winner Finn O'Neill wants her to do the cover for his said the name. He was an important author, had won the National Book Award , and was always at the top of the best-seller lists

  5. Amazon restores rankings for gay-themed books

    Wed, 15 Apr 2009

    the basis for the acclaimed movie which starred Heath Ledger, and for Paul Monette's Becoming a Man, winner of a National Book Award in 1992. The "glitch" has even turned on former Amazon favorites, among them M.J. Rose's Lip Service, promoted

  6. Clem's Chronicle: Obama Stimulus

    Tue, 27 Jan 2009

    winning virtually every literary prize, including two Pulitzers, for "Rabbit Is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest," and two National Book Awards . LA MAN SHOOTS SELF, FAMILY OVER JOB LOSS-Tragic story out of Los Angeles. A medical technician, apparently distraught over

  7. Transcript: Nightline's Interview With Stephen King

    Thu, 15 Nov 2007

    though they were giving me a National Book Award for a novel that I wrote. They were giving me a National Book Award in a way that I suppose they bothers me. If I read a list of National Book Award Best Novel of the Year finalists

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Videos

  1. Patti Smith's Playlist

    Fri, 8 Jun 2012

    Patti Smith she is the singer songwriter high would have just added last year. National book award winner to her list of accomplishments. Her raspy and voice is inspired generations of rock musicians and now. She tells us all

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  2. King Takes on His Critics

    Fri, 16 Nov 2007

    don't give this award Stephen King it wasn't as though they were giving me in a national book award for a novel. They were giving me national book award in a way that I suppose. They give a girl who's not going to be Miss America the

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  3. Google Searches: Schlesinger; Hawking; Cat in the Hat

    Thu, 1 Mar 2007

    Who died in New York last night the Kennedy insider became an acclaimed historian winning two Pulitzer prizes. And the national book award for his biographies of past presidents including John F. Kennedy. Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He

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    Kennedy insider became an acclaimed historian winning two Pulitzer prizes. And the national book award for his biographies of past presidents including John F. Kennedy. Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He once said that as memory
  4. Webcast: Walter Reed Woes; 08: McCain, YouTube; Office Space

    Thu, 1 Mar 2007

    Who died in New York last night the Kennedy insider became an acclaimed historian winning two Pulitzer prizes. And the national book award for his biographies of past presidents including John F. Kennedy. Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He

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    Kennedy insider became an acclaimed historian winning two Pulitzer prizes. And the national book award for his biographies of past presidents including John F. Kennedy. Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He once said that as memory
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