Louis Warren has won the prestigious Albert J. Beveridge Award for his book, Buffalo Bill's America. Sponsored by the American Historical Association since 1939, the award honors the best book written in English on American history, from 1492 to the present. An official announcement and presentation of the award will take place at the organization's annual meeting in Atlanta in January. Copies of the book will be available at the Knopf booths #1104/1106.

The only authorized edition of The Iraq Study Group Report, an important and timely examination of America's involvement in the Iraq War with key recommendations for moving forward, will be published by Vintage Books on December 6, 2006. The Vintage edition book will be released on the same day that the report is released to President George W. Bush and members of Congress. Besides Baker and Hamilton, the panel includes Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Edwin Meese III, Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, and Alan K. Simpson.

We're pleased to announce that Kenji Yoshino's Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights has been named as one of the recipients of the 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award. The award is presented annually by The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights to ten new works judged as outstanding in illustrating the possibilities for social change.

Random House titles given an Honorable Mention for the award were My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry and Complicity by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank.

Three Random House authors have been awarded the 2006 National Humanities Medal. The winners are as follows:

•Kevin Starr, author of California and Coast of Dreams
•Bernard Lewis, author of The Crisis of Islam, A Middle East Mosaic, and The Multiple Identities of the Middle East
•Meryle Secrest, author of Duveen: A Life in Art and the forthcoming Shoot the Widow

The awards were presented by the President in an Oval Office ceremony on Thursday, November 9, 2006.

Timothy B. Tyson has been awarded the 2007 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for Blood Done Sign My Name, his memoir analyzing the social and spiritual effects of a racially motivated murder in his hometown. Winner of the 16th Grawemeyer religion prize, his work was selected from among 57 nominations from six countries.

Tyson, a senior scholar of documentary studies at Duke University, also holds appointments at Duke's divinity school and history department and is adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina.