Winners have been announced for the 46th annual American Book Awards, sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation. Click here to see the 18 awards, which include a lifetime achievement award for John Edgar Wideman, the editor/publisher award for Erroll McDonald at Penguin Random House, and the anti-censorship award for Joy Reid.
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Kate Medina, who retired in June as executive v-p, associate publisher, and executive editorial director at Random House, is receiving the Editorial Excellence Award of the Biographers International Organization, which honors an editor for "outstanding work in the service of biography and literature."
Committee chair Heather Clark said that Medina has "edited Isabel Wilkerson, Jon Meacham, Gloria Steinem, Sandra Day O'Connor, Katherine Boo, Tom Brokaw, E.L. Doctorow, Emma Cline, Anna Quindlen, and Tracy Kidder, among many others."
Meacham added, "Henry James might well have had Kate in mind when he wrote that we should all strive to be someone on whom nothing is lost."
Medina began her publishing career at Doubleday and joined Random House in 1985.
The award will be presented October 7 in New York City.