In memoriam: David Eddings.

Alice Munro awarded the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals named 2009 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.

In memoriam: Eleanor Perenyi, author of Green Thoughts.

Random House congratulates its 2009 James Beard Foundation Award winners: Fat by Jennifer Mclagan (Cookbook of the Year and Single Subject), Screen Doors and Sweet Tea by Martha Hall Foose (American Cooking), Alinea by Grant Achatz (Cooking from a Professional Point of View), Dale DeGroff (Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional Award), and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Outstanding Restaurant Award for Jean Georges).

Random House congratulates Cormac McCarthy on being awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American fiction.

Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Fiction); American Lion by Jon Meacham (Biography); Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (General Nonfiction).

Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol to be published by Doubleday this September.

In memoriam: Deborah Digges.

Jane Mayer wins the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Dark Side.

In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.

World publication rights to a book being written by former President George W. Bush have been acquired for Crown. “My goal is to bring the reader inside the Oval Office for the most consequential moments of my personal and political life,” says Mr. Bush of his work-in-progress, tentatively scheduled for fall 2010 release.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri and A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif are regional winners of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and Best First Book, respectively.

A select number of major Random House, Inc. books, including Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, are or soon will be available as applications for purchase and reading on an iPhone and an iPod Touch.

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