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Dave Eggers is no stranger to literary awards. He's piled up numerous accolades over the years, beginning with his 2000 debut novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which was [...]

Brian Napack has stepped down as president and CEO of Wiley after six years in those roles. He has been Hi replaced on an interim basis by Matthew Kissner, who [...]

In its third year, the BookLife Prize--an annual writing contest sponsored by Publishers Weekly and BookLife--received more than 900 submissions . Of those, 30 books advanced to the semifinals. From [...]

If you got through the whole year without having to change into formal wear in the office restroom, here's a sampling of what you missed--other than the pigs in a [...]

It's the end of the year--almost. A time for reflection, before the resolutions of 2008 send us all scrambling once again. So what did we read this year that kept [...]

The Quills Awards are coming--and our list of eligible titles is growing every day. For a complete, updated list of the nominated books, go to www.quillsliteracy.org DEBUT AUTHOR OF THE [...]

The Philosophy The Quills, an initiative sponsored by Reed Business Information (PW's parent company), is designed to be an industry-qualified 'consumers choice' awards program for books, honoring the current titles [...]

At the New School in New York City on March 14, the National Book Critics Circle named its 2018 winners. The previous year saw all six awards go to independent [...]

MANY HAPPY RETURNS FEBRUARY PAPERBACKS COLLECTED STORIES OF WALLACE STEGNER Wallace Stegner. Penguin, $10.95 These 31 classic stories record much of the cultural climate of 20th-century America, its West in [...]

Editor's Choice NONFICTION The Life of Graham Greene: Vol. 1, 1904-1939 Norman Sherry (Viking). Biography of this scale and quality is rare, a portrait that goes to the heart of [...]

For our annual 'Off the Cuff' Awards, we asked booksellers for their picks in a variety of categories. The winners (and selected bookseller comments) appear below. Favorite Picture Book of [...]

The first annual Quills nominations are in, and what a list it is: some titles you might have expected, sure, but there are some surprises, too. And that's just what [...]

The Bookbinders' Guild 7th Annual New York Book Show, held November 11 in New York City defied the notion that well-made books are a thing of the past. This year's [...]

Listen & Live Audio's title Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural was awarded the INDIE award for best independent spoken-word audio by the Association for Independent Music [...]

IN SOMETHING OF A SURPRISE, the L.A. Times awarded its annual top fiction honor to David Means for his short story collection Assorted Fire Events, published by the independent New [...]

Tony Parsons's Man and Boy, just published here by Source books as one of the Illinois house's first ventures into fiction and published by HarperCollins in the U.K., was named [...]

RICHARD PECK, author ofA Year Down Yonder, and David Small, illustrator of So You Want to Be President?, are the winners of the 2001 John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott Medals. [...]

SUSAN SONTAG was the Fiction winner, for In America, and Nathaniel Philbrick took the Nonfiction prize for In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex at [...]

Celebrating theshort story form and Doubleday's 80-year-old O.Henry prize series, a stellar group of writers came to read from past volumes at New York City's 92nd St. Y. Participants included [...]

Photography collection exposes hidden facets of 160 years of African-American life For Deborah Willis, it's been a long journey from her days as a Photography student in 1972, when she [...]

The Georgia Office of School Readiness has selected Boomer Goes to School by Constance McGeorge, illus. By Mary Whyte (Chronicle), to include in summer activity kits that will be distributed [...]

THE NOMINEES for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle awards for publishing include this year's Booker Prize winner (J.M. Coetzee), an Oprah Book Club author (A. Manette Ansay), the 1999 [...]

W. W. NORTON placed four books among the 20 titles selected last week as finalists for the 1999 National Book Awards. Other publishers with multiple nominations were Random House with [...]

The Boston Globe and Horn Book magazine have announced the winners of the 1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature. This year's winners are: for fiction, Holes [...]

The APA has announced several changes in the Audie Awards. The award year will be shortened to 10 months, from January 1, 1999, to October 31, to allow the panel [...]

FROM A LINEUP of finalists (Bookselling, Mar. 22) selection committee chairman Jeff Cope termed 'impressive,' SEBA announced the four recipients of its first annual book awards during an April 10 [...]

IT WAS A NIGHT of surprises at the National Book Awards on November 18. Not only did Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain beat Don DeLillo's heavily favored Underworld for the Fiction [...]

THE 45TH NATIONAL Book Awards ceremony at New York City's Plaza Hotel Nov. 15 was a comparatively low-key affair in which the actual winners were less of a surprise than [...]

With the discontinuation of the Quill Awards, the short-lived experiment in egalitarian book award shows has come to an end. Perhaps, however, the problem was not public apathy or the [...]

New York Book Show Prizewinners The winners of the fifth annual 1990 New York Book show, sponsored by the Bookbinder's Guild of New York, have been announced. This year's show [...]

For our annual 'Off the Cuff' awards, we asked retailers around the country for their picks in a variety of categories. The winners (and selected bookseller comments) appear below. Favorite [...]

It's that time of year again. No, not the pencil case--and school clothes-buying time, though of course, there's also plenty of that. It's fall--and that means lots of 'big books' [...]

Stephen Lewis's Race Against Time, published by Anansi (distributed in the U.S. by PGW), won the Libris nonfiction Book of the Year prize, and Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road, by [...]

Fifty-four different books won Ben Franklin Awards, sponsored by PMA, an independent publishers association and announced at the BEA last week. If that seems like a lot of indiscriminate praise, [...]

A few new authors and a couple of past winners are among the 20 nominees for this year's National Book Awards. Winners will be announced November 16. Fiction: The March [...]

Following the announcement last week of the 95 nominees for the first-ever Quill Awards, voting in the 19 categories is set to begin August 13. The winners will be announced [...]

If the Best Picture Academy Award can help a low-budget, literary-based film like Million Dollar Baby earn $100 million at the box office, just think what a Quills Award will [...]

Welcome to The Quills and our special 'celebration of the written word.' This uniquely designed awards program and its accompanying Foundation initiative are being launched with the enthusiastic support of [...]

CRITICS WHO CARPED about the obscurity of the National Book Award's fiction finalists this year should be pleased with the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards for 2004: [...]

Oscar recognition for books is a phenomenon at least as old as Gone with the Wind. Over the past decade, the number of book-based Best Picture nominees rose, then faded, [...]

Like Water for Chocolate was the second selection in the New York Times's Great Summer Read program. Chocolate author Laura Esquivel (left) was accompanied at a reading at a New [...]

THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION has released its official entry rules and guidelines for submitting books to be considered for the 2004 National Book Awards. Publishers who have not yet received [...]

For Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire, the power of television in combination with (he National Book Award made for a big impact. The book's 46,000-copy first printing was batch' out [...]

Ian McEwan's bestseller Atonement debuts at #2 on PWs trade paperback list, and while it just missed winning England's prestigious Booker Award, it did hit the NBCC target, taking the [...]

A novel turned down by conventional publishers and ultimately issued by E-Reads, the e-book operation run by agent Richard Curtis, won the Commonwealth Prize for best first book for the [...]

Two years after it was launched, the Frankfurt eBook Award, a symbol of the optimism and celebration that surrounded e-books as recently as 18 months ago, has been discontinued. The [...]