Katherine Paterson of Montpelier named recipient of E.B. White Award, given every two years for achievement in children's literature
The National Book Award-winning novelist was perhaps best known for Jesus' Son, a book of interwoven stories focused on the lives of addicts. A spokesman for his publisher tells NPR he died Wednesday.
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"A library can be a loud place," says a city official in charge of Moscow's 400-plus public libraries, which have begun attracting visitors with coffee shops, theater rehearsals and lectures.
The New Yorker reflects on the work of the incomparable American novelist Philip Roth, who has died, at the age of eighty-five.
Astrid Lindgren memorial award, worth £445,000, won by Wolf Erlbruch, a German illustrator whose books tackle tough subjects including death
Shoulder to shoulder, they formed a line 500 feet long: from the stockroom of the old shop, down the sidewalk, and onto the shop floor of the new store.
In the late summer of 2016, eight-year old Aslan Tudor visited the Standing Rock Reservation with his mother and younger sister. With the help of his mom, he wrote a children's book about his experience.
She was a Portland author and former WW columnist with a yen for boxing.
Although best known for his children’s stories and fairy tales—including such classics as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid—Hans Christian Andersen was a prolific writer of lesser-known works for a…
Rebecca Mead on recent additions to the audiobook of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which has been adapted into a TV series for Hulu.
Zen was published by William Morrow in 1974, after being rejected by 121 publishing houses. The book has endured as a work of popular philosophy, and inspired many a road trip across the West.
Paul Beatty won the Man Booker Prize for his novel, "The Sellout," a satire of race in the United States.
Lois Duncan was perhaps best-known for her pioneering suspense novels that captivated more than one generation of young readers, including “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” which became a movie wi…
Rosani Chokshi's new book for middle graders, "Aru Shah and the End of Time," kicks off a new series for Rick Riordan, author of the wildly popular Percy Jackson stories. This taps different myths and legends.
Allan Ahlberg is the author of more than 150 published books. He and his late wife, Janet Ahlberg, are the author/illustrator duo behind some of our favourite children’s books, including the award-win
Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online for the first time, 200 years after they were written.
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Bellow's centennial is being marked with reprints and a new biography. Today, critics still savor his metaphor-rich prose; his son remembers the personal pain the great writer caused.
Kelly Barnhill was asleep at her Minneapolis home at 5 a.m. Monday when the phone rang.
