2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prizes awarded to Richard Bausch for his novel Peace and to Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn, authors of Half the Sky, for Lifetime Achievement.

Random House, Inc. congratulates Edwidge Danticat on being named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.

Now in theaters: The Informant, starring Matt Damon, based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald; The Boys Are Back, starring Clive Owen (playing in NYC & LA).

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2009 shortlist announced. Congratulations to our nominees: American Rust by Philipp Meyer, The Vagrants by Yiyun Li, and Woodsburner by John Pipkin.

In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic shortlisted for FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.

Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol sets one-day, adult fiction sales record and marks record-breaking day-one sales for Random House North America and U.K. One-day, global English-language sales well over 1 million copies.

Random House congratulates A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book for being shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.