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Random House Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists

Pulitzer Prize Winners

Please join us in congratulating the four Random House authors that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2013! Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son won in the fiction category, Fredrik Logevall's Embers of War won in the history category, Sharon Olds's Stag's Leap won in the poetry category, and Tom Reiss's The Black Count won in the biography category. Four of our authors were also named as finalists in their category: Bernard Bailyn's The Barbarous Years in history, Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers in general nonfiction, Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank in fiction, and the late Jack Gilbert's Collected Poems in poetry. For a full list of previous Random House winners please click here.


Chinua Achebe Passes Away at 82

Passage of Power

We are saddened by the death of the "Father of African literature" Chinua Achebe; he was 82. Achebe was an acclaimed and best-selling novelist, poet, and essayist whose works include the classic Things Fall Apart, Anthills of the Savannah, and Arrow of God. Achebe, whose novel Things Fall Apart was one of the first African novels, famously said: "If you don't like someone's story, write your own." We are grateful that he told his story and left us with a legacy of great literature and a better understanding of Africa.

Robert Caro Wins NBCC Award

Passage of Power

The Passage of Power, the fourth volume of Robert Caro's monumental biography The Years of Lyndon Johnson, has been awarded the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. The third installment of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Master of the Senate was previously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2003. Please join us in congratulating Robert Caro on another great achievement.

Stag's Leap Wins the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize

Stag's Leap

Congratulations to Sharon Olds who has won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her newest collection of poems, Stag's Leap. U.K. Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, chair of the final judging panel, said: "This was the book of her career. There is a grace and chivalry in her grief that marks her out as being a world-class poet. I always say that poetry is the music of being human, and in this book she is really singing. Her journey from grief to healing is so beautifully executed." Sharon Olds is the first American woman to win the prestigious award which comes with a £15,000 award.

2012 National Jewish Book Awards

National Jewish Book Award

The 2012 National Jewish Book Award winners were announced this week by the Jewish Book Council. Four Random House authors were recognized: Jonathan D. Sarna's When General Grant Expelled the Jews was a finalist for the American Jewish Studies category; Joshua Henkin's The World Without You was a finalist for the Fiction category; Matthew Brzezinski's Isaac's Army was a finalist for the Holocaust category; Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' The Great Partnership was a finalist for the Modern Jewish Thought and Experience category.

In Brief
On Thursday, May 2nd, Mystery Writers of America presented the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Winners for the 2013 Award include The Expats: A Novel by Chris Pavone (Crown) for Best First Novel and The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books) for Best Original Paperback. For more information, including a full list of winners, visit www.theedgars.com.
Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70. In addition to being a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, Ebert was also an author, writing more than 20 books that included The Great Movies (Broadway) and The Great Movies II (Broadway). His New York Times obituary may be found here.
Ronald Dworkin, legal scholar and public intellectual, has passed away at the age of 81. A professor of law at New York University, Dworkin was the author of many books, including Life's Dominion and The Supreme Court Phalanx, and considered by some to be "the primary legal philosopher of his generation." His New York Times obituary can be read here.

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