Adichie's 'Americanah' Wins National Book Critics Award March 19, 2014-- The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose previous works include "Half of a Yellow Sun," "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "Purple...

Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo is the winner of the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, which carries a purse of $50,000. Guelzo won the prize for his book GETTYSBURG: The Last Invasion which was released in hardcover by A.A. Knopf in...

NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), one of the world’s largest booksellers and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that NOOK Press (www.nookpress.com), Barnes &...

~~On March 11, 2014, Vintage Books will release a new edition of Bob Colacello’s landmark intimate biography HOLY TERROR: Andy Warhol Close Up. Originally published in 1990—three years after the artist’s death at age fifty-eight—HOLY TERROR has...

Mills & Boon, the UK’s most successful publisher of romantic fiction, is continuing to shape its UK business for a digital future with the launch of an innovative, direct-to-consumer web platform and an eReading app for iPhone and iPad. The platform and the...

The 2014 New York Book Festival will hold its its annual competition honoring books worthy of further attention from the world publishing capital on June 20-21 in Manhattan. The 2014 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent...

Third Quarter 2014 Results from Operations Segment results for the fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013 third quarters are as follows: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today reported sales and earnings for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended January 25, 2014.   Third...

For the third year in a row, Columbia University School of the Arts looks forward to welcoming students from the University of Leipzig’s Creative Writing Program (Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, DLL) in a cross-cultural exchange in literary translation. For...

The Houston Writers Guild is pleased to bring back its genre manuscript contest for 2014! Categories include: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror, Romance/Chick Lit/Womens Fiction, Contemporary/Mainstream/Literary Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Steampunk/Speculative, Young...