83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Announced
The winners of the Anisfield Wolf Book Award have been announced. This award recognizes literature confronting racism and examining diversity.
The winners are:
Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
Poetry: In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
Lifetime achievement: N. Scott Momaday
Fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction: Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
Poetry: In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
Lifetime achievement: N. Scott Momaday
The 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner
Weike Wang won the award, which honors a distinguished first book of fiction for her novel, Chemistry. Wang will receive $25,000, a month-long residency fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming (a retreat for artists and writers), a residency from the Distinguished Writers Series at the University of Idaho's MFA Creative Writing Program and a $5,000 stipend.HBO Develops Docuseries Based on I'll Be Gone in the Dark
HBO has announced a docuseries based on Michelle McNamara's true-crime book, I'll Be Gone in the Dark. The book tells the story of McNamara's investigation into the Golden State Killer. On another note, McNamara was the wife of actor Patton Oswalt and died in 2016 before the book was published. Oswalt and several of McNamara's friends made sure the book was published on her behalf!
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