News from RH Academic Resources

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:09:19 -0500

Hannah Tinti has won the 2008 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize for The Good Thief (The Dial Press). Awarded by The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize was created by the Center as part of its mission to promote the art of fiction in the United States.

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:32:41 -0500

Nathan Englander has won the 2008 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for The Ministry of Special Cases (Vintage). Administered by Hadassah Magazine, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize is an annual award for Jewish fiction. Eligible books include novels and short-story collections published in English.

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Knopf Doubleday Group Wins 9 out of 10 Best Books of the Year

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:14:03 -0500

]]>The editors of the New York Times Book Review have selected their Ten Best Books of the Year for 2008. Nine of the ten titles, which were selected from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008, are from the The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group:

• Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser (Knopf)
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
• Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
• Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
• This Republic Of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (Knopf)
• The World Is What It Is by Patrick French (Knopf)
• Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (Pantheon)
• The Dark Side by Jane Mayer (Doubleday)

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Our 2008 National Book Award Winner

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:00:46 -0500

]]>Peter Matthiessen has won the 2008 National Book Award in Fiction for Shadow Country (Modern Library), a great American epic of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century which The New York Times said is "...as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature."

Knopf author Maxine Hong Kingston was awarded the NBA's 2008 Medal for
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, which is presented in conjunction with the The National Book Awards by the Board of Directors of the Foundation. The recipient is a person who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work.

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Alfred A. Knopf) and The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer (Doubleday) were finalists this year in the Nonfiction category.

For the complete list of NBA winners and finalists click here.

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:43 -0500

Four Knopf titles have been nominated for the 2008 Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread) in the UK. The Sister by Poppy Adams for the Costa First Novel Award; Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager for the Costa Biography Award; A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres for the Costa Novel Award; and Trauma by Patrick McGrath also for the Costa Novel Award.

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The Milton Quatercentenary

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:05 -0500

]]>In honor of Milton's Quatercentenary this December, Modern Library is pleased to announce the publication of a new annotated paperback edition of Paradise Lost taken from the landmark and critically acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton published last year.

For a complete list of books by John Milton available from Random House, click here.

For more information from the Milton Society of America, click here.

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Nam Le Wins the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:39:19 -0500

]]>Knopf author Nam Le has won the £60,000 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut short story collection The Boat. The award is sponsored by the University of Wales and is given every two years "to the best published writer in English under the age of 30 from anywhere in the world."

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Michael Crichton Dies at age 66

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:18:41 -0500

]]>Michael Crichton, bestselling author of science fiction books such as Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Timeline, has passed away at the age of 66. Crichton's stories challenged readers, young and old alike, to reconsider the limits and potential of science, while also providing an imaginative and suspenseful read along the way.

For a complete list of Crichton's books available through Random House, Inc., please click here.

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:24:05 -0500

Neil Shubin has been awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Your Inner Fish, which tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years. The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is offered for outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science.

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Yu Hua Shortlisted for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:19:09 -0500

]]>Yu Hua has been selected for the shortlist by the judging panel for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel, Brothers (Pantheon). The Man Asian Literary Prize is an an annual award for a forthcoming or unpublished Asian novel in English. The winner of the prize will be announced on Thursday, November 13 at a ceremony in Hong Kong.

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Our 2008 National Book Award Finalists

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:40:33 -0500

]]>We proudly recognize our 2008 National Book Award finalists:

Fiction
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen, (Modern Library/Random House Publishing Group)

Nonfiction
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust, (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer, (Doubleday)

For the complete list of NBA finalists click here.

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Edwidge Danticat Wins the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:20 -0500

]]>The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation has announced that Edwidge Danticat is the winner of the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction for her family memoir, Brother, I'm Dying (Vintage).
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. Click here for a complete list of the winners and finalists.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:08:16 -0500

]]>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus (Anchor), has been selected by the MacArthur Foundation as a 2008 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Each fellowship comes with a stipend of $500,000 to the recipient, paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years.

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Yaroslav Trofimov Wins the Washington Institute Book Prize

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:02:55 -0500

]]>Yaroslav Trofimov has won the Washington Institute of Near East Policy's Gold Prize
for The Siege of Mecca (Anchor), a gripping account of the takeover of Islam's holiest shrine. The Bronze Prize went to Anthony Pagden for Worlds at War (Random House), a stunning work of history that delves deep into the roots of the "clash of civilizations" between East and West. The Washington Institute Book Prize is awarded annually to three outstanding new books that have illuminated the Middle East for American readers. With this prize, The Washington Institute seeks to acknowledge the very best new works on the region.

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:24:33 -0500

Jean Edward Smith, author of FDR, has been awarded the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize, given annually by the Society of American Historians to the best nonfiction book on an American theme published the previous year.

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