Marlon James, Laili Lalami are National Book Award nominees
None of the finalists has ever won a competitive National Book Award and only four have received any kind of…
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National Book Awards longlist includes titles on border wall, Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib's best-selling chronicle of A Tribe Called Quest and a memoir by chef Iliana Regan are among the works…
Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94
The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the United States…
Toni Morrison, celebrated author and Nobel laureate, dead at 88
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, has died.
Joy Harjo becomes first Native American named U.S. poet laureate
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement that Harjo helped tell an "American story" of traditions both lost…
Alan Brinkley, scholar of liberalism, dies at age 70
Brinkley was an academic who traced the evolution of liberalism from the New Deal to the 21st century and was…
John Singleton, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, dies at 51
Singleton, the director of "Boyz N the Hood," made movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native…
W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91
A Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, Merwin completed more than 20 books.
Aretha Franklin, queen of soul, dies at 76
Legendary singer Aretha Franklin died Thursday.
