Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Finalists for the 70th annual National Book Awards were chosen by panels of authors, critics, booksellers and others in the…

None of the finalists has ever won a competitive National Book Award and only four have received any kind of…

Hanif Abdurraqib's best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest and a memoir by chef Iliana Regan are among the works…

The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the United States…

Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, has died.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement that Harjo helped tell an "American story" of traditions both lost…

Brinkley was an academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was…

Singleton, the director of "Boyz N the Hood," made movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native…

A Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, Merwin completed more than 20 books.