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The Nonfiction Windham Campbell Prize was awarded to Maya Jasanoff for her “brilliant historical writing [which] brings to life forgotten worlds and characters in richly textured narratives.”

The National Book Critics Circle will present awards to Margaret Atwood and Yaa Gyasi on March 16, 2017 at the New School.

John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose work redefined the way a generation saw art, died on January 2nd. He was 90.

Brothers at Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It, by Larrie D. Ferreiro, was bestowed The Journal of American Revolution Book of the Year Award.

The National Book Foundation presented Robert A. Caro the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2016 National Book Awards.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead was honored as the 2016 National Book Award Winner in Fiction.

The finalists for the 2016 Book Awards were announced and two were published by Knopf Doubleday.

President Obama awarded Sandra Cisneros and Moises Kaufman a National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

Poet Sharon Olds received the Academy of American Poets’ 2016 Wallace Stevens Award. Given annually to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry, the award was established in 1994, and carries a $100,000 stipend.

William H. McNeil, the National Book Award winning historian and professor, who expanded the view of world history, passed away on Friday. He was 98 years old.

Elie Wiesel, a survivor at Auschwitz and educator to millions about the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, died at the age of 87.

Flora Fraser was awarded the 2016 George Washington Prize for THE WASHINGTONS on May 25 at a black-tie gala at the Mount Vernon estate