...Bent to the Earth" is the hallmark of his first book by the same name, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. The valley is a place where immigrants come looking for a first foothold, a first kid to finish high school...

...major awards last season including the best-play Tony, the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle award. --- KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - The Jamaican government has bestowed one of its highest civic honors on a...

...Shanley. The author of "Doubt" already has collected this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Outer Critics prize and the top Drama Desk award. There's only one trophy left. Of course, remember...

...my life." A veteran of many Royal Shakespeare Company productions, McDiarmid's honors include a London's Critics' Circle award for "Faith Healer" in 2001. He spent 11 years as joint artistic director of London's Almeida Theater, stepping...

...status-hungry New Yorkers in the 1980s, was a top 10 best seller of the decade and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Wolfe said the idea of a college novel interested him because it's never been explored from the student's...

NEW YORK -- "Wicked," the "Wizard of Oz" prequel, has won four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including the prize for best musical. "I Am My Own Wife," Doug Wright's drama about a German transvestite, was named best...

NEW YORK -- Edward P. Jones, winner of this year's National Book Critics Circle fiction prize, took 10 years to write his novel and felt so embarrassed about the delay that when he finally finished he couldn't bear to tell his agent, Eric Simonoff, on the phone.

...information, call (803) 644-1122. MONDAY BOOK DISCUSSION: Valerie Boyd, the winner of the 2003 Southern Book Critics Circle Award, will discuss her book Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, at the annual meeting of the Friends...

...with DJ Butch Davidson; $10, $5 college students with ID. LITERARY LIFE VALERIE BOYD: 2003 Southern Books Critics Circle Award winner will discuss her book, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, at annual meeting of Friends...

...information, call (803) 644-1122. MONDAY BOOK DISCUSSION: Valerie Boyd, the winner of the 2003 Southern Book Critics Circle Award, will discuss her book Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston at the annual meeting of the Friends...