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Random House congratulates its two National Book Award winners: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles.

Madeline McIntosh will return to Random House, Inc. in the newly created position of President, Sales, Operations, and Digital.

Random House congratulates its three National Book Award finalists: Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles.

Random House is deeply saddened by the death of Reinhard Mohn, the founder of modern Bertelsmann.

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.