Cormac McCarthy has won the $25,000 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American fiction, according to the Washington Post.
The PEN American Center also named Steve Coll the recipient of a nonfiction award for his book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century; and awarded citations to Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, Ha Jin and 18 other authors for excellence in short fiction.
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Yum. At a ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York City Monday night, the James Beard Foundation Awards were served up. The cookbook of the year was Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan (Ten Speed Press). (See the Shelf Awareness review, November 7, 2008.) For the full list of the many Beard winners, click here.