The Texas Book Festival and the Library of Congress National Book Festival will honor former first lady Laura Bush with a lifetime achievement award, the festivals announced in a news release.

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Fresh off the back of some stellar New Year’s resolutions (some of which may or may not have already been broken), many ...

A marketing writer is a chameleon: They can be a youthful, casual voice when writing social media copy for one client, then a drier, more authoritative voice when writing private, internal ...

Jones’ novel, published last month by Knopf, follows the friendship between Vernice and Annie, two women who grew up in a small Louisiana town in the 1950s and lost their mothers when they were ...

The PEN/Faulkner Award was established in 1981. Previous winners include David Bradley for The Chaneysville Incident, David Guterson for Snow Falling on Cedars, and Imbolo Mbue for Behold the Dreamers ...

The Cleveland Foundation announced the finalists for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, given annually in four categories to books that contribute “to our understanding of race and ...

The winners of the Audie Awards, given annually by the Audio Publishers Association in recognition of “distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment,” were announced ...

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The NAACP Image Awards were first presented in 1967. Previous literary winners include Toni Morrison for Love, Bryan Stevenson for Just Mercy, and Jason Reynolds for As Brave as You.

Meily currently lives in Manila,where he runs the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), a private-sector organization focused on disaster management. He also runs two startup enablers, ...

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