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.