When a beloved (or controversial) literary icon dies, there are a few ways of keeping our connection with them alive. You can often commune with them through Melville House’s Last… Read more »

“So wildly wrong that it defies rational analysis,” ranks among the toughest reviews an author can receive—particularly if it comes from a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist in response to your… Read more »

Author Nicola Griffith researched fifteen years of literary awards, and she concludes in The Bookseller yesterday that novels written from a female perspective are less likely to receive a prize. You’ve heard… Read more »

Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »

It was the news that launched a thousand identical reactions, hundreds of international headlines, and a race for the wittiest Twitter response. Harper Lee, the 88-year old author of To Kill a… Read more »

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University yesterday afternoon. A number of big names won in the Journalism category—most notably the Washington Post and the Guardian for their… Read more »

Pearl S. Buck , the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is best known for her novel The Good Earth, which also earned her a Pulitzer Prize.… Read more »

Husna Haq of The Christian Science Monitor tracked sales for the 2013 winners just two weeks after the Pulitzer Prize was announced. The result? Money has not fallen from the… Read more »

The Pulitzer Prizes will be announced today, and after last year’s absurd refusal to award the prize for fiction, the engine of anticipation is running hot. With that in mind,… Read more »

A new study by two academics zooms in on the biographies of the Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism from 1917 to 2010 and finds that the majority of female “winners… Read more »