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Oct 31 2008: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96.
Oct 30 2008: The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2008 Whiting Writers’ Awards, including Mischa Berlinski, whose first novel Fieldwork, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. The awards, which are $50,000 each, totaling $500,000, have...
Oct 27 2008: Tony Hillerman, the award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Leaphorn/Chee mystery novels, died on October 26 at the age of 83. Hillerman's daughter, Anne Hillerman, said her father's health had been declining in the last couple ...
Oct 24 2008: The third annual Book Group Expo meets this weekend in San Jose, California. Tickets are $55 for a two-day pass and $42 for a single day. Find out more about Book Group Expo and its founder in BookBrowse's interview, and buy tickets at bookgroupexpo.com
Oct 24 2008: Pulitzer-winning author Toni Morrison will unveil her highly anticipated ninth novel, A Mercy (publishing Nov 11), on NPR.org's Book Tour in pre-publication readings on October 27, 28, 29 and 30. During the four days she'll read the first 30 pages of the 177-...
Oct 22 2008: JK Rowling is to host a tea party for Edinburgh school children to launch her much-anticipated volume of wizarding fairy tales, The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
The book, publishing on December 4, marks Rowling's farewell to the world of Harry Potter. Not originally ...
Oct 20 2008: In a ritual repeated nearly every weekend for the past decade in Colombia’s war-weary Caribbean hinterland, Luis Soriano gathers his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, in front of his home and sets out with an eclectic cargo of books destined for the people living in the ...
Oct 15 2008: The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and include The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon and Home by Marilynne Robinson. The winners will be announced on November 19 at a ceremony in New York City
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