News from RH Academic Resources

Slavery by Another Name PBS Documentary

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:41:12 -0500

]]>Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name has been made into a new PBS documentary that will broadcast on February 13th at 9:00 p.m.(ET). Please click here for a look at the trailer and tune in on Monday to see Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize–winning work come to life.

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Bettany Hughes Receives the Norton Medlicott Award

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:32:00 -0500

]]>Bettany Hughes, author of The Hemlock Cup, has been awarded the Norton Medlicott Award, given by the Historical Association "to those who have shown dedication and commitment to history through publication, passion, production and education." Bettany Hughes will be presented with the award at a ceremony on July 3, 2012 at Senate House, London, where she will also give the keynote talk.

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Presidential Race

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:22 -0500

As the race for the Republican presidential nomination continues to heat up, politicians of every stripe are citing our authors in an attempt to further their causes. Newt Gingrich has repeatedly likened Barack Obama's policies to the principles put forth by pre-war union and community organizer Saul Alinsky , author of Rules for Radicals. And Robert Kagan's The World America Made is now being highlighted by President Barack Obama as an example of America's continued prominence and influence on the world stage.

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NBCC Finalists Announced

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:00:40 -0500

]]>Seven Random House authors have been announced as 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists: Teju Cole's Open City and Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child in the fiction category; Amanda Foreman's A World on Fire, James Gleick's The Information, and Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles in the nonfiction category; Paul Hendrickson's Hemingway's Boat in the biography category; Jonathan Lethem's The Ecstasy of Influence in the criticism category. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Manhattan on March 10th, 2012. Click here for a full list of NBCC finalists go to.

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Flame Alphabet

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:27:27 -0500

]]>Check out the book trailer for Ben Marcus's exciting new novel The Flame Alphabet and this brief New York Magazine write-up on the author and his new book.

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Awards

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:43:29 -0500

Congratulations to our authors who were part of an excellent showing at the 2011 National Jewish Book Awards where we had three winners and three finalists. Simon Sebag Montefiore received the Book of the Year award for Jerusalem, Aharon Appelfeld got his third Fiction award for Until the Dawn's Light, and Art Spiegelman won the Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir category for MetaMaus. Our finalists were Lawrence Douglas for The Vices (The Other Press) in Fiction, Deborah Lipstadt for The Eichmann Trial in the Holocaust category, and Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole for Sacred Trash in History.

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Arnold Rampersad

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:30:14 -0500

Congratulations as well to Arnold Rampersad who is the recipient of the 2012 BIO Award Biographers International Organization's annual conference.

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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel Dies at 75

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:27:20 -0500

]]>Vaclav Havel, the former president of Czechoslovakia died last Sunday at the age of 75. Before his rise to power in his home country he was a leading dissident in the struggle against Communist rule and spent several years inside prisons because of his activism. A playwright with 19 plays to his credit, Havel was also the author of several books addressing communism within Czechoslovakia and his work as President during a time of transition from Communist rule including To the Castle and Back and Summer Meditations.

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Choice Outstanding Titles

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:55:00 -0500

Each year the editors at Choice Reviews Online release a list recognizing the most significant academic titles reviewed during the calendar year and four Random House titles made this year's list: Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick, Apollo's Angels by Jennifer Homans, How to Live by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press), and The Information by James Gleick. The full list can be viewed here Choice Choice's 2011 "Outstanding Academic Titles".

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warmth of other suns hurston/wright award

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:47:08 -0500

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns has won the 2011 Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is given each year to African American writers who contribute "the highest quality writing in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry" in recognition of "the profound significance, necessity, and genius of Black writers and the stories they tell."

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GB Tran Event

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:52:41 -0500

The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center at the University of Illinois–Chicago is sponsoring a free event for author GB Tran on Thursday, November 17 from 4-6pm. Tran will discuss his graphic memoir, Vietnamerica, which chronicles his family's experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War and their immigration to the United States.

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Paul Clemens Whiting Award

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:47 -0500

Paul Clemens, author of Punching Out and Made in Detroit, has been awarded a 2011 Whiting Award for his non-fiction work which "weaves history, economics, politics, past and present, all into a strong, forward moving narrative." The award, which comes with a $50,000 prize, has been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in their early career.

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Brian Greene Given 2012 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:45:42 -0500

Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality, has been selected to receive the 2012 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to physics and effectively communicating those contributions to physics educators." You can tune in to PBS on Wednesday nights starting November 2nd to catch Brian Greene as the host of the three-part NOVA series The Fabric of the Cosmos.

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Piri Thomas Obit

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:05:54 -0500

Piri Thomas, the author of Down These Mean Streets, passed away in his El Cerrito, California home on Monday at the age of 83. Thomas, who grew up in Spanish Harlem during the 1930s and 40s, exposed the tough conditions of New York's ghetto to an unaware America and inspired generations of authors with his memoir, novels, and poetry. Written in 1967, Down These Mean Streets has become a staple in college and high school classrooms across the country.

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Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending Awarded Man Booker Prize

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:50:17 -0500

]]>Congratulations to Julian Barnes who has been awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending. Shortlisted three times previously for his novels Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George this is Barnes' first time winning the prestigious award. For a list of our previous Man Booker–winning and shortlisted authors please click here.

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