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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett headlined this year's National Book Festival, promoting her book "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and the Constitution," in an onstage conversation with festival co-Chairman David Rubenstein.
Posted in: Books, Gazette, National Book Festival, News, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Literacy Partners, a 52-year-old New York City nonprofit that works with families, both parents and children, won the top prize in the 2025 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, taking home the $150,000 David M. Rubenstein Prize. Since 2013, the Literacy Awards have handed out 247 prizes, totaling more than $4.3 million, all from philanthropic donations. More than 200 organizations from 42 countries have been recognized for their work.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Literacy, Literacy Awards, News
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The National Book Festival’s 25th edition returns to D.C. on September 6 with a stellar list of novelists, historians, poets, young-adult and childrens authors, more than 90 in all. You’ll see novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Scott Turow and Jess Walter; non-fiction authors such as Ron Chernow, Jill Lepore and Geraldine Brooks; and Academy …
Posted in: Books, Library Work and Employees, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, National Book Festival, News, Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Washington DC, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Bill Moyers, who died yesterday at the age of 91, was at the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium one night in the fall of 2023 to mark the preservation of more than 1,000 of his public television programs in The American Archive of Public Broadcasting. a collaboration between the Library and GBH, the public media production company in Boston. It was a crowning night to one of the most influential careers in American media.
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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mac Barnett, the bestselling author of more than 60 children's books, including “Twenty Questions,” “Sam & Dave Dig a Hole,” “A Polar Bear in the Snow” as well as the “Mac B., Kid Spy” series, will be inaugurated today as the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
Posted in: Events, Kids, Library Work and Employees, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, News, Thomas Jefferson Building, Writers
Posted by: Carla D. Hayden
"On Saturday, Jan. 4, Library of Congress James Madison Council chair David M. Rubenstein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. This is a crowning achievement for his passionate support of our nation’s history and culture and the arts." -- A special blog from Librarian Carla D. Hayden
Posted in: Collections, Library Work and Employees, Literacy Awards, National Book Festival, News, U.S. Presidents