COLSON WHITEHEAD

At the event on Tuesday, Biden said the country has benefited from the hard work of the honorees. “We’re a nation, a great nation in large part because of the power of the arts and humanities that’s stamped into the DNA of America,” he said.

Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling and Gladys Knight were among the 22 people and organizations being honored. Louis-Dreyfus, who channeled Biden’s resume when she starred in “Veep,” jokingly sagged under the weight when the president placed the medal for the arts around her neck. The president surprised Sir Elton John with a National Humanities Medal during a White House musical event last September. Recipients of the 2021 National Medal of Arts:— Judith Francisca Baca, artist. Recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medal:— Richard Blanco, poet and author.

President Biden will present the national medals of arts and humanities at a White House ceremony on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present them with medals — and then stole the show himself with a quip about seeking reelection.

Brother Alive feels like the first work of fiction since the beginning of the pandemic that reflects the mood of the city.

Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.

Anthony Doerr, Richard Powers and Lauren Groff are among this years nominees on the National Book Awards’ fiction longlist, which also includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut novel “The Love Songs of W.

Books Kirkus Prize This image released by Doubleday shows a portrait of Colson Whitehead, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Nickel Boys" and his most recent crime story "Harlem Shuffle." Whitehead's "Harlem Shuffle," Joy Williams' "Harrow", and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' debut work, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” are among this year's finalists for the Kirkus Prize, $50,000 awards presented by the trade publication. Du Bois,” are among this year's finalists for the Kirkus Prize, $50,000 awards presented by the trade publication. Whitehead's crime story “Harlem Shuffle," his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Nickel Boys," is a fiction nominee, along with Williams' “Harrow.” “The Love Songs of W.E.B.

The latest novels from Colson Whitehead and Joy Williams, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ debut work “The Love Songs of W.

In a country born of theft, everyone is an accomplice.

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

“The Crown” tied with “The Mandalorian” for the most Emmy nominations Tuesday, 24 each, but the Marvel universe also got bragging rights with runner-up “WandaVision.”.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland approved a new constitution for the Cherokee Nation on Wednesday, ensuring citizenship for descendants of its Freedmen, the Black people once enslaved by tribal citizens. “The Cherokee Nation's actions have brought this longstanding issue to a close and have importantly fulfilled their obligations to the Cherokee Freedmen," Haaland said in a statement. The issue of tribal citizenship for Freedmen has long been the subject of litigation for the Five Tribes, known historically as the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee and Seminole nations.

Barry Jenkins brings Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" to TV for Amazon in a hard-to-watch adaptation that is a huge achievement.

(AP Photo)NEW YORK – One of the country's oldest cultural instititutions, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is undergoing some of its biggest changes in more than a century. AdHarjo, the first Native American to be appointed U.S. poet laureate, said she looked forward to having an influence on future academy choices. “There are so many incredible Native visual artists,” she told the AP, while also citing such authors as N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. But the academy will still call itself an academy, while working to make itself more accessible to artists and to the general public. Besides choosing members, the academy also gives dozens of prizes and grants each year, totalling more than $1 million.

ICYMI: A look back at Sunday's 60 MinutesThe efforts to ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations; Never-before-seen video of the attack on Al Asad Airbase; And, Colson Whitehead speaks with 60 Minutes.

2/28/2021: Progress and Patience, Incoming, Colson Whitehead The efforts to ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations; Then, never-before-seen video of the attack on Al Asad Airbase; And, Colson Whitehead: The 60 Minutes interview

In his two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, Colson Whitehead sees the historic plight of Black Americans. Writing those books, says Whitehead, "I was thinking about the sort of existential terror of being descended from slaves. This experience relates directly to the police killings that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, he says. Young Black people being murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong skin color. The novelist often considers these injustices the Black Lives movement protests against – it's part of the Black experience.

This combination image shows "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride, left, and "Fathoms: The World in the Whale" by Rebecca Giggs. The American Library Association has announced its winners of the Carnegie medals for literary excellence, awarding McBride in the fiction category and Giggs in nonfiction. (Riverhead Books, left, and Simon & Schuster via AP)NEW YORK – This year's winners of the Carnegie medals for fiction and nonfiction, presented by the American Library Association, have each checked out a few books in their time. But in Philly, you can,” explained McBride, whose novel last year was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the library association established the award in 2012, with winners in each category receiving $5,000.

NEW YORK – The Walt Disney Co. will make a follow-up to the 2019 live-action “The Lion King,” with Barry Jenkins, the director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight” and the James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk,” set to direct. The new “Lion King” grossed more than $1.6 billion worldwide, so a sequel was perhaps always likely. Less expected was a “Lion King” with Jenkins directing. The film, Disney said, will explore the mythology of “The Lion King,” including Mufasa's origin story. Disney didn't announce any further plot details or casting on the new “Lion King” project, which was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

NEW YORK Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library of Congress. On Monday, it announced that he had won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, among others. He is the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, for which he won in April.

NEW YORK Even sheltering in place, Colson Whitehead has had an eventful year. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzers for back to back novels, Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, which won the Pulitzer in May and comes out in paperback this week. In Underground Railroad,' I felt I needed a fantastic device to move Cora (the main character) to her freedom. With The Nickel Boys, there was no need for any kind of fantastic flourish. "For The Nickel Boys, I was someone trying to figure out where the country was going.

(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Nashville bookstore that opened and thrived while others were closing their doors is once again defying the odds, thanks, in part, to its famous novelist co-owner. How could pandemic-stressed book purchasers resist a read she describes as a cross between a puppy and a warm bath? In addition to the book-related customer comments, a lot of posts also ask where Patchett gets her dresses. Parnassus opened in 2011, shortly after two large Nashville bookstores the once-independent Davis-Kidd and the chain store Borders shut down in quick succession. Despite the naysayers, Parnassus thrived.

Nearly 20 years ago, Oprah Winfrey created Oprah's Book Club, and since then, 74 titles have earned her coveted stamp of approval. In collaboration with Oprah, "CBS This Morning" is proud to announce her latest book club pick: "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead. Award-winning author Whitehead joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss his work and his reaction to being selected for the book club.

Oprah has called New York Times bestselling author Colson Whitehead's latest book "a tour de force." In this OWN interview excerpt, Whitehead shares how the "brutality of the slave system" puts things into perspective.