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82 relations: Adrienne Rich, American Book Awards, American Booksellers Association, American News Company, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Proulx, Arthur Miller, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Association of American Publishers, Barbara Epstein, Barney Rosset, Booker Prize, Children's literature, Clifton Fadiman, Commonwealth Foundation prizes, Costa Book Awards, Daniel J. Boorstin, Dave Eggers, David McCullough, Don DeLillo, Dust jacket, E. L. Doctorow, Elmore Leonard, Eudora Welty, Fiction, Film industry, First Book, Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award, Gore Vidal, Governor General's Awards, Gwendolyn Brooks, Harper (publisher), Innovations in Reading Prize, James Laughlin, James Patterson, Jason Epstein, Joan Didion, Joan Ganz Cooney, John Ashbery, John Updike, Judy Blume, Kirkus Reviews, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, List of Latin phrases (C), List of winners of the National Book Award, Literary award, Literary festival, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Microform, ..., National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Award for Poetry, National Book Award for Young People's Literature, National Book Awards (disambiguation), National Book Foundation, Nautilus Book Awards, Newbery Medal, Non-fiction, Nonprofit organization, Norman Mailer, North to the Orient, Oprah Winfrey, Philip Roth, Poetry, Prix Goncourt, ProQuest, Publishers Weekly, Pulitzer Prize, Ray Bradbury, Robert B. Silvers, Robert Caro, Saul Bellow, Stephen King, Studs Terkel, Terry Gross, The Guardian, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Ursula K. Le Guin, World War II, Yahoo! News. Expand index (32 more) »
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.
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American Book Awards
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".
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American Booksellers Association
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) is a non-profit trade association founded in 1900 that promotes independent bookstores in the United States.
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American News Company
American News Company was a magazine, newspaper, book, and comic book distribution company founded in 1864 by Sinclair Tousey, which dominated the distribution market in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and figure in twentieth-century American theater.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist.
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Association of American Publishers
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is the national trade association of the American book publishing industry.
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Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein (August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was a literary editor and founding co-editor of The New York Review of Books.
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Barney Rosset
Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (May 28, 1922 – February 21, 2012) was the owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the magazine Evergreen Review.
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Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.
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Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.
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Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.
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Commonwealth Foundation prizes
Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.
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Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history.
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Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
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David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.
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Don DeLillo
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.
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Dust jacket
The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations.
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E. L. Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction.
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Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
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Fiction
Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
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Film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors, and other film crew personnel.
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First Book
First Book is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992.
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Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award
The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award is an annual award presented by the Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression.
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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
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Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher.
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Harper (publisher)
Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.
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Innovations in Reading Prize
The Innovations in Reading Prize is an annual award given to organizations and individuals who "have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading." The prize is awarded by the National Book Foundation, presenters of the National Book Awards.
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James Laughlin
James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 – November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing.
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James Patterson
James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist.
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Jason Epstein
Jason Wolkow Epstein (born August 25, 1928) is an American editor and publisher.
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works.
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Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television producer.
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John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.
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Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews (or Kirkus Media) is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus (1893–1980).
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
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List of Latin phrases (C)
Additional references.
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List of winners of the National Book Award
These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States.
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Literary award
A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.
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Literary festival
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston (born Maxine Ting Ting Hong;Huntley, E. D. (2001). Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion. p. 1. October 27, 1940) is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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Microform
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing.
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National Book Award for Fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens.
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National Book Award for Poetry
The National Book Award for Poetry is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens.
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National Book Award for Young People's Literature
The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens.
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National Book Awards (disambiguation)
The National Book Awards are a set of United States literary prizes.
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National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".
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Nautilus Book Awards
Nautilus Book Awards is an annual accolade of books in the genre of social and environmental justice.
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Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.
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Nonprofit organization
A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
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North to the Orient
North to the Orient is a 1935 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".
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ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Robert B. Silvers
Robert Benjamin Silvers (December 31, 1929 – March 20, 2017) was an American editor who served as editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017.
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Robert Caro
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
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Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.
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Terry Gross
Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by NPR.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award
