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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Guy Lamolinara is the head of the Library's Center for the Book, a job that calls on his decades of work at the Library and lifelong love of literature.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Gazette, Libraries, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Library Work and Employees, Literacy, My Job, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jimmy Buffett, whose iconic "Margaritaville" was inducted into the National Recording Registry this year, died yesterday at age 76. We interviewed him in March for the NRR. Here, we remember that conversation, his story of writing the song, his performance at the Library in 2008 and how his songs inspired the author long ago, even before Buffett was a star.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Novelist, short-story writer and essayist George Saunders was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction Saturday evening in one of the final sessions of the 2023 National Book Festival, conferring a lifetime honor on a versatile writer whose most famous book cast one of Washington's most famous residents in a surreal light. Saunders' 2017 novel "Lincoln in the Bardo" took a fantastical look at the visit President Abraham Lincoln paid to his young son's tomb in a Georgetown cemetery one night in 1862.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Events, Gazette, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Library Work and Employees, National Book Festival, Washington DC, Writers
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Libarary's 2023 National Book Festival on August 12 features a stunning array literary stars including Amor Towls, Beverly Gage, Victor Lavelle, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rebecca Makkai, David Grann, S.A. Crosby, Cheuk Kwan and Tahir Hamut Izgil. Librarian of Congress will present the Prize for American Fiction to novelist George Saunders at day's end.
Posted in: Events, Kids, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Library Work and Employees, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction will be awarded to Jesmyn Ward. The 45-year-old Mississippian is the two-time winner of the National Book Award for the novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" among other major literary awards.
Posted in: African American History, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, National Book Festival, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Novelist, short-story and essayist Joy Williams, known for books such as "State of Grace" and "The Quick and the Dead," has won the 2021 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
Posted in: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Writers