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2012 PEN American Center Award Winners Announced

All the Time in the World

Random House, Inc. is proud to acknowledge its 2012 PEN American Center Literary Award winners: E. L. Doctorow, PEN/Saul Bellow (fiction achievement); Dan Jenkins, PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing; James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon Books), PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House), PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography; Patricia C. McKissack's Never Forgotten (Schwartz & Wade Books), inaugural PEN/Steven Kroll Award (illustrated children's writer).

Historian John Keegan Dies at 78

Keegan

Acclaimed military historian John Keegan passed away last week at his home in England. He was 78. The author of twenty books, including The American Civil War and The First World War, Keegan had been a fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor of history at Vassar College. His full New York Times can be read here.

Gore Vidal Dies at 86

Vidal

Gore Vidal, author and American intellectual, passed away last week at the age of 86. A literary giant whose career spanned seven decades, Vidal's longevity was almost as impressive as the breadth of his work. A noted playwright, novelist, essayist and public intellectual, Vidal wore many hats and will remembered for the great ease with which he moved from noir thrillers and historical fiction to political essays and memoir. His New York Times obituary can be accessed here.

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