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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
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The photographs of Bernard Gotfryd, now free for anyone to use from the Library's collections, are a remarkable resource of late 20th-century American pop-culture and political life, as he was a Newsweek staff photographer based in New York for three decades. He was also a Holocaust survivor who wrote about the experience with grace and courage.
Posted in: Holocaust, Jewish American History, New Online, Photos, World War II, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, devotes his June newsletter to the mysteries of doing the laundry.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Mark Twain made his name on the lecture circuit with a talk about his work as a newspaper correspondent in Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands.
Posted in: Newspapers, Rare Book and Special Collections, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has edited a new anthology of poems, "Living Nations, Living Words," a companion volume to ongoing project at the Library to bring Native poets into mainstream cultural conversations.
Posted in: Native Americans, U.S. Poet Laureate, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
DC Chief Creative Officer and Publisher Jim Lee joins a conversation about superheroes and publishing for Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.
Posted in: Asian American, Comics, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, writes in this newsletter about his fears of audiences not liking his books.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, checks in with his April 2021 newsletter.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Poetry, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Today the Library launches Read Around the States, a program in which U.S. members of Congress pick a book for young people that is connected to their states – either through the book’s setting or author, or perhaps simply because it is a favorite of the member.
Posted in: Center for the Book, Congress, Writers