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7 Articles Tagged English

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020

Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

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Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020
Humanities & Social Sciences
July 8 2019

Announcing the Modern Library Torchbearers Series

We are pleased to present the new Modern Library Torchbearers series, created to honor a more inclusive vision of classic books by recognizing women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance. “The collection started with our desire to use the Modern Library as a platform to call out

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Announcing the Modern Library Torchbearers Series

Humanities & Social Sciences
July 8 2019
Additional Praise for THE WRITER’S PRACTICE
General Humanities & Social Sciences
January 1 2019

Additional Praise for THE WRITER’S PRACTICE

Professors of English, rhetoric, and composition share their thoughts on The Writer’s Practice. “Think you can’t write? John Warner disagrees. In his carefully plotted guide to better writing, Warner argues that with focused practice, you CAN improve. So can your students. The Writer’s Practice offers an easy-to-follow series of lessons that, while prompting you to write,

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Additional Praise for THE WRITER’S PRACTICE

Additional Praise for THE WRITER’S PRACTICE

General Humanities & Social Sciences
January 1 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

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Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2017

Jhumpa Lahiri is 2017 PEN/Malamud Award Winner

Jhumpa Lahiri has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She will receive the $5,000 award and give a reading December 8 at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Jhumpa Lahiri is 2017 PEN/Malamud Award Winner

Humanities & Social Sciences
May 22 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2017

2017 Pulitzer Prizes to Penguin Random House titles

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday and four Penguin Random House titles received the distinguished medal honoring excellence in Arts and Letters.

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2017 Pulitzer Prizes to Penguin Random House titles

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2017
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 6 2017

Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

Imbolo Mbue has been awarded the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers.

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Debut Novelist Imbolo Mbue Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 6 2017
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