Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny has won the Dilys Award for 2011, sponsored by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association and honoring the mystery title of the year that member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The award was named for Dilys Winn, founder of Murder Ink, New York City.
Penny thanked the association for the award and "what it represents. Handselling. Not downloading. But actually pressing a paper and ink book into a customer's hand. Now there's an art worth celebrating. Bookselling."
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Winners of this year's Bancroft Prize, given by Columbia University to honor "the authors of distinguished works" in American history and diplomacy, are:
- Eric Foner for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Norton)
- Christopher Tomlin for Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press)
- Sara Dubow for Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press)
Each winner receives $10,000.