Topic: Amanda Foreman

Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award surprises

Entertainment Weekly - 20 days ago
Image Credit: Ricardo Barros. . The National Book Critics Circle announced the nominees for its 2011 book awards over the weekend, and there were a...

Ten authors longlisted for Lionel Gelber Prize

The Afterword - 21 days ago
Organizers of the Lionel Gelber Prize, apparently one of the last literary awards that doesn't release a longlist, changed their policy and issued...

The death of life writing

guardian.co.uk - 1188 days ago
Nigel Hamilton opens his new primer How to Do Biography (Harvard) with the bold boast that we are living in " Of course there are always stand-outs, even in a thin year such as 2007 (Hermione Lee's Edith Wharton and Rosemary Hill ...