Maya Angelou Endorses Hillary Clinton in TV Ad
New Letters and VQR Win National Magazine Awards
Khaled Hosseini and Elizabeth Gilbert Among "World's Most Influential People"
Last Day of National Poetry Month Brings Change for NYC Commuters
Stanley Plumly and Andrew O'Hagan Win Big in LA
Last Friday Stanley Plumly was awarded a 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his tenth poetry collection, Old Heart (Norton), at a ceremony at Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Master of ceremonies Gay Talese presided at the annual event, during which awards were given in nine categories. Andrew O'Hagan won the award in fiction for his third novel Be Near Me (Harcourt), and Dinaw Mengestu won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books). Each winner received a thousand dollars.
Muldoon and Williams Among New Members of American Academy of Arts and Letters
Son Will Publish, Not Destroy, Nabokov's Unfinished Novel
Cynthia Ozick Wins Not One but Two PEN Awards
Cynthia Ozick, the author of five story collections, including Dictation, published last month by Houghton Mifflin, recently received two lifetime achievement awards.
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