Lazard History Wins Book Prize
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âThe Last Tycoonsâ is an insiderâs history of Lazard Freres & Company, where William D. Cohan worked for six years as an investment banker.
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Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat became the first winner of The Story Prize, a new annual book award honoring short story collections.
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Historian Douglas L. Wilson has won his second Lincoln Prize for outstanding scholarship about the late president.
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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.
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Little by little, Bruce Wasserstein is pulling it off. After seven weeks of stop-and-start negotiations, the legendary New York dealmaker who runs Lazard was able to clinch a definitive
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A biography of Gen. Robert E. Lee and a book about the relationship between President Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were this year's winners of the Lincoln Prize for Civil War scholarship.
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An exhibit featuring a film about US President George W. Bush's home town in Texas won the Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious art award, pipping a digital recreation of Osama bin Laden's house.
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By Anonymous  From Kevin McGrath Sir: Charles Moore hits on an interesting definer of history: Google (The Spectator's Notes, 9 September). If you Google 'English military defeats' and hit 'I'm feeling lucky', you get an English victory at Solway Moss.
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Author Harper Lee is to be given America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush.
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Collaborative history is a wild ride, as Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia maintained by users all over the world, discovered during election season.
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The comprehensive and chilling account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by the US government&#39;s 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of America&#39;s top literary awards on Wednesday.
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The authors of a banned book that accuses Chinese communist officials of mistreating peasants have been awarded a 50,000 euro (US$61,500) journalism prize by a Germany-based group.
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"Mutants," a non-fiction work that casts a sympathetic eye on genetics and physical deformity, has won the Guardian's First Book award, the first science book to claim the prize.
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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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A biography of Jack Johnson, the world's first black heavyweight boxing champion, was named as Sports Book of the Year on Monday.
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"A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 353 pages, $27), by David A. Nichols: As the 50th anniversary of Little Rock Central High School's desegregation approaches, David A. Nichols offers a new, much-needed look at the civil rights legacy of the man who ordered troops to escort nine black students into the all-white school.