A recent episode of PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots" featured Rita Dove, an award-winning poet from Akron.

Books about a family’s exploration of the natural world, the challenges of parenthood during a time of climate crisis and how animals perceive the planet have won $10,000 prizes for their exemplary ...

Her 11th book, “Breathing Lessons” won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her 20th novel, “A Spool of Blue Thread” was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize while her 23rd novel ...

Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward.

Colson Whitehead has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, putting him up there with only Faulkner, Updike and Booth Tarkington in the most rarefied rank of American novelists. The immensely ...

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Powers discusses his latest novel, “Playground,” which focuses on games — on land, in artificial intelligence, and under the sea. Also, unaired excerpts from a ...

(it) will shock you, move you, and leave you changed,” says a review by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author ... for the National Book Award for fiction, whose website describes it as: Violet ...

One of these tales forms part of the dystopian work of fiction, Prophet Song ... Reported with devastating simplicity, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction this year.

Non-fiction has seen better sales days ... try Miranda July’s All Fours). Pulitzer Prize winner and former Sydney Morning Herald journalist Geraldine Brooks delivers a tender and moving memoir ...

Zadie Smith’s first foray into historical fiction, The Fraud is based on ... all while being deeply thought-provoking. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead is back with the second ...