T.J. Stiles has won the Biographers International Organization’s 2026 BIO Award, which “honors an individual who has advanced the art and craft of biography.” Stiles, a Minn ...

The American Library Association revealed its list of the 11 most frequently challenged or banned books of 2025. Patricia McCormick’s young-adult novel Sold, about a Nepalese gi ...

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Author Helen DeWitt had the social media platform X abuzz after posting that she turned down a $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize. DeWitt, best known for her 2000 novel, The Last Sam ...

The Los Angeles Times announced the winners of its annual book prizes at a ceremony Friday night at the University of Southern California. Bryan Washington took home the fiction a ...

The winners of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have been revealed, the annual literary prizes given to honor “literature that contributes to our understanding of race and our appreciation of the ...

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Kirkus launched its new Indie Awards today, with independent authors invited to submit their work for the prizes created to “celebrate the excellence, breadth, and depth of independently published ...

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One of the unique aspects of Employment Ethics that was important to me was that it was meant to be shared and to start a conversation. Each chapter can be a stand-alone discussion without prior ...

The Whiting Awards, which come with cash prizes of $50,000 for each winner, were established in 1985. Previous winners include Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, Li-Young Lee, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, ...