...behind-the-scenes chronicle of the U.S. space program, and the 1998 novel "A Man in Full," runner-up for the National Book Award. --- LONDON (AP) - British rocker Pete Doherty was released on bail Sunday by police investigating tabloid...
...Ferlinghetti. Doctorow, the author of "Ragtime," "Billy Bathgate" and other acclaimed historical novels, won the National Book Award in 1986 for "World's Fair." He has been a finalist four other times. Fiction nominees this year also include...
...nominees announced Wednesday for the National Book Awards. Two of the country's...announce the finalists for the National Book Award, which are our most prestigious...acclaimed historical novels, won the National Book Award in 1986 for "World's Fair...
...Brandeis University, received the prize for history for "Washington's Crossing," a finalist last fall for the National Book Award. Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan won in the biography category for "de Kooning: An American Master." Stevens...
...travels in East Africa; and "The Snow Leopard," his introspective account of a trek to the Himalayas that won the National Book Award in 1978. "I'm not the only writer around, I know, who's said that his dream one day is to write something...
...News From Paraguay," a novel set in the 19th century. "We all feel very lucky to have gotten this far." The National Book Awards, which take place Wednesday in New York, are the publishing industry's answer to the Academy Awards, with...
...turn a sentence like nobody's business." Another Princeton associate, C.K. Williams, who recently won the National Book Award for poetry, said Lee is "really an astonishing prose stylist, and that's a gift you can't make for yourself...
...Hemingway Award in 1993 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his first book, "Lost in the City," a...The Known World," was a finalist last fall for the National Book Awards and is now in its eighth printing, with 100...
...come up with the Oscar gold that has thus far eluded the franchise. COLD MOUNTAIN (Dec. 25): The novel won the National Book Award in 1997 and director Anthony Minghella toted home an Academy Award for his work on The English Patient. Couple...
...years before Redford's reconstruction of the story with a happy ending and 14 years before The Fixer, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was also adapted into a motion picture. Katherine F. Bond, Augusta
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