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The Tiger’s Wife and Swamplandia! Honored by American Library Association
We are excited to congratulate speakers Téa Obreht and Karen Russell, recipients of American Library Association awards at the just-conducted Midwinter meeting! Both Obreht and Russell were bestowed the American …
Random House Speakers Top “Best of the Year” Lists!
We are thrilled to announce that several of our speakers have been recognized by numerous “Best of the Year” Lists. Swamplandia!, by our newest speaker Karen Russell, was chosen by …
Julie Otsuka and Téa Obreht Selected as 2011 National Book Award Finalists!
We are proud to announce that The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka and The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht have been selected as fiction finalists for the 2011 National Book Award. We are delighted to offer …
Abraham Verghese and Isabel Wilkerson Top President Obama’s Short-List of Summer Reads!
We are pleased to announce that President Obama’s Summer Reading List includes works by two of our speakers, Abraham Verghese and Isabel Wilkerson. The President will be flipping through Cutting …
On the heels of a Pulitzer win, more fantastic news for Jennifer Egan!
Time magazine selects Jennifer Egan as one of this year's ''TIME 100,'' the magazine's annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. Time magazine’s Curtis Sittenfeld writes, ''Uniting disparate …
Jennifer Egan Wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad is the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was just last month that …
RHSB speakers Jennifer Egan, Isabel Wilkerson, and Darin Strauss clean up at the National Book Critics Circle 2010 Awards
We were on the edge of our seats last night waiting to hear the results of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Awards. Three of our own RHSB speakers were …
Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone Showered with Accolades
We are all celebrating Abraham Verghese's New York Times best-seller Cutting for Stone which is having a banner week, lighting up TV screens and capturing headlines in the film and …
The National Book Critics Circle honors Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad and Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns
What a great way to kick off 2011! It seems like nearly every major publication across the country recognized Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns and Jennifer Egan's A …
