Literary awards
FILE - Playwright Katori Hall poses for a portrait in front of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York on Sept, 21, 2011. Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "The Hot Wing King." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers

By Hillel Italie And Mark Kennedy Jun. 11, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

This undated photo shows the front and back sides of the medal awarded for the Pulitzer Prizes in New York. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts will be announced, Friday, June 11, 2021, almost two months later than initially planned due to the pandemic. (The Pulitzer Prizes via AP)
The Latest: 2021 Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, arts

By The Associated Press Jun. 11, 2021 01:18 PM EDT

This image released by Ecco/HarperCollins shows author Jami Attenberg, founder of the 1,000 word challenge, calling for people to write 1,000 words a day for 14 days. The 2021 challenge began May 31 and ends Sunday. (Jami Attenberg via AP)
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge

By Hillel Italie Jun. 07, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

Bryson DeChambeau celebrates after sinking a putt to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament Sunday, March 7, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Better than most? One putt on the 17th that actually was

By Doug Ferguson Mar. 09, 2021 06:23 PM EST

FILE - Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti recites a poem after he was awarded the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards in New York, on Nov. 16, 2005. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

By Janie Har And Hillel Italie Feb. 23, 2021 02:57 PM EST

This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding anyone to report on her death because of the quickly spreading coronavirus. Plans for a memorial tribute, originally scheduled for last spring, remain on hold. (Gordon Parks Foundation via AP)
Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

By Hillel Italie Feb. 18, 2021 09:44 AM EST

This image provided by Penguin Random House shows Colombian author Pilar Quintana, winner of the Alfaguara novel prize for "Los Abismos/The Abysses." (Manuela Uribe/Penguin Random House via AP)
Pilar Quintana reconnects with childhood and wins Alfaguara

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Feb. 08, 2021 11:20 AM EST

Japanese writer Yu Miri speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Miri's novel "Tokyo Ueno Station" has won the National Book Award 2020 for Translated Literature in the United States. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding

By Mari Yamaguchi Dec. 23, 2020 08:34 AM EST

Obama, Patti Smith among PEN America honorees

Dec. 08, 2020 09:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Artists, activists and a former president gathered online for PEN America's annual gala, held virtually this year because of the pandemic. ...

In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glück stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus

Dec. 07, 2020 06:29 AM EST

Americans dominate diverse list of Booker Prize contenders

By Jill Lawless Nov. 19, 2020 05:23 AM EST
LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize judges are meeting Thursday to pick a winner of the prestigious literary award, choosing from a six-book list that's both U.S....

This combination photo shows book cover images for Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, left, and " “The Dead Are Arising:The Life of Malcolm X," a biography by Tamara Payne and her late father Les Payne. The novel and biography won National Book Awards for fiction and non-fiction respectively. (Pantheon via AP, left, and Liveright via AP)
Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 08:44 PM EST

Louisiana award goes to writer of books on pandemic, floods

Oct. 31, 2020 12:50 PM EDT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana author who has written about the 1918 flu pandemic and the 1927 Mississippi River flood is receiving the state's annual...

American poet Louise Gluck waves as she gets in a car, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. Gluck, a professor of English at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., won the 2020 Nobel Prize for literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By Hillel Italie Oct. 08, 2020 10:20 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday Dec. 10, 2018 file photo, guests attend the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo Town Hall, Oslo. Dr. Denis Mukwege from Congo and Nadia Murad from Iraq will jointly receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. The award ceremony for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, traditionally held at the Oslo city hall on Dec. 10, will instead be held in scaled-down form at the city’s university because of the coronavirus outbreak. (Berit Roald/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)
Virus scales down December Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony

By Jan M. Olsen Sep. 22, 2020 05:11 AM EDT

This cover image released by Riverhead Books shows "Having and Being Had" by Eula Biss. (Riverhead Books via AP)
From Ferrante to Woodward: a full fall season in books

By Hillel Italie Aug. 19, 2020 11:25 AM EDT

This combination photo shows the cover of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Nickel Boys," left, and a portrait of author Colson Whitehead. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for back to back novels. “The Nickel Boys,” his followup to “Underground Railroad,” won the Pulitzer in April and comes out in paperback this week. He also managed to finish a crime novel, with the working title “Harlem Shuffle,” that he began more than a year ago. (Doubleday, left, and Madeline Whitehead/Doubleday via AP)
An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead

By Hillel Italie Jun. 30, 2020 08:16 AM EDT

In this Thursday, June 25, 2020, photo, Karen Hayes works in her office in Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tenn. The independent bookstore, owned by Hayes and novelist Ann Patchett, opened and thrived while others were closing their doors and is once again defying the odds during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Novelist Patchett has Nashville bookstore customers swooning

By Travis Loller Jun. 26, 2020 12:04 PM EDT

FILE - This Feb. 1, 1993 file photo shows Pop superstar Michael Jackson performing during the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. A stage musical about Michael Jackson has pushed its Broadway debut until next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Preview performances of “MJ” are now set to begin in March 2021 at the Neil Simon Theatre. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, file)
Michael Jackson musical postpones its Broadway debut

By Mark Kennedy May. 13, 2020 01:20 PM EDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, author and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award for 2012 Hilary Mantel poses for photographers at the Costa Book awards ceremony in London. Hilary Mantel’s book “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction, with the winner due to be announced on Sept. 9, delayed because of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Mantel, Evaristo among finalists for fiction's Women's Prize

Apr. 21, 2020 03:28 PM EDT