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Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...
Publishers, not surprisingly, laud the award as prestigious and important because of the attention it brings, although some critics argue that larger publishers have an advantage because of their proximity to the National Book Foundation (headquartered, like nearly every publisher mentioned here, in New York City) and their financial ability to pay the contest's entry fees. In addition to the fee, publishers must agree to contribute $1,000 to a promotion campaign if the book becomes a finalist, purchase medallions to affix to finalist and winning books, and get authors to agree to participate in the foundation's website...
Thompson’s Brattle Street creation was widely praised, receiving the American Institute of Architecture’s Twenty-five Year Award in 2003. However, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Robert D. Campbell, Jr. ’58 said that Crate & Barrel “never did a really good job of taking advantage of the power [the building...
...would be premature to give out the Comeback Player of the Year award three months into the school year, but the Crimson’s Louis Caputo has a tremendous head start.Harvard wrestling suffered a devastating blow last spring, when the already-ailing co-captain endured a knee injury that shelved the grappler for an entire semester.Ranked eighth in the nation after an All-American sophomore campaign in 2007, Caputo looked to have a breakout season, but he instead found himself on hiatus from Harvard, preserving his final two years of eligibility by taking the semester off.Still, as the Blue...
...despite the turnout, one notable voice was missing from the proceedings. University President Drew G. Faust was in New York City as a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction, Smith said...