News: Holt Adult

NEW YORK, June 9, 2011 –Mark K. Shriver will pen a book about his late father Robert Sargent “Sarge” Shriver Jr., to be published next spring by Henry Holt and Company, it was announced today by Stephen Rubin, Holt’s president and publisher.

DREYFUS:
Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
By Ruth Harris
Metropolitan Books

AWARDED THE 2010 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
For Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir

The Jewish Book Council today announced the winners of the 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, the longest-running North American awards program of its kind in the field of Jewish literature. Given annually since 1948, the awards are designed to recognize outstanding books on Jewish topics each year. Awards are given in sixteen different categories, including debut fiction, scholarship, biography and Holocaust.

Hilary Mantel’s WOLF HALL wins this year’s Man Booker Prize.  Chosen from an extremely competitive short-list of six authors, this is the first favorite to clench the prize in a decade.

DARLING JIM is a delicious literary page turner that channels the ancient Irish storytelling tradition of seanchaí that will leave you breathless – and The Weekend Today Show agrees! Cosmopolitan editor John Searles described DARLING JIM as “really gripping” and hailed it as one of the top ten books to read this summer.

Watch the segment here.

Tony Horwitz's A VOYAGE LONG AND STRANGE and Calvin Tomkins's LIVES OF THE ARTISTS are endorsed in the New York Times year-end roundup. More…

The June issue of Vanity Fair features a cover story and an excerpt from Thurston Clarke's new book The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America. More…