Penelope Lively, author portrait
© Robin Matthews

Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively’s adult novel Moon Tiger won the Booker Prize. In addition, her children’ s book The Ghost of Thomas Kempe won the Carnegie Medal, and A Stitch in Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
How It All Began
Family Album
Consequences
Making It Up
The Photograph

Books

Life in the Garden
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
Dancing Fish and Ammonites
How It All Began
Family Album
Consequences
Making It Up
The Photograph

Three Penguin Random House Authors Win Pulitzer Prizes

On Monday, May 5, three Penguin Random House authors were honored with a Pulitzer Prize. Established in 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes are the most prestigious awards in American letters. To date, PRH has 143 Pulitzer Prize winners, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Josh Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead, and many more. Take a look at our 2025 Pulitzer Prize

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Books for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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