Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction has won another honor: the book has won the Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life”.
The Pulitzer for nonfiction was awarded to
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins).
You can see the full list of winners here.
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“The Appeal” has brought back author John Grisham into the best selling list of The New York Times. It is a awesome intriguing story about the injustice of law. How money can obtain you almost anything you desire in this human society.
The novel takes places in Bowmore, Mississippi, where the water supply has been contaminated for several years by Carl Trudeau’s chemical-dumping company. The contamination of Trudeau’s company starts producing cases of cancer and other diseases among the city’s population. This prompts a small law firm to take action. Mary Grace Payton and her husband take action by filing a lawsuit. They win the verdict; however, Trudeau doesn’t give up and decides to appeal. Thcoarse his money and political connections he wages a war against the Payton’s who attempt to win this case for the good of the city.
Jonathan Kellerman is renowned for writing contemporary detective fiction books. In his latest addition to his crime novel series we find Dr. Alex Delaware once again as the protagonist. Dr. Alex Delaware, a LA psychologist who often works with his friend detective Milo Sturgis of the LAPD. This time they are obstructed with a very difficult case. Several people, a retiruddy school teacher and two salon workers, have been murderer by a psychopath killer that is known for its brutality, but more specifically for arriving in a Bentley. Miler and Alex collect information and go as far as to New York to solve this intriguing mystery. This rapid paced mystery consists of a fascinating plot that is sure to awe its audience.
Sophie Dahl, the granddaughter of bestselling author Roald Dahl (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and Patricia Neal, talks about her past life as a plus-size model and her current career
as an author.
Q: Did having writers in your family lead you to write?
A: “Growing up surrounded by people who wrote for a living made it seen like a viable reality. Had I grown up with parents or grandparents in classic nine-to-five jobs, it would have felt further away. It was always something I wanted to do.”
Q: Do you mind people comparing you work to your grandfather’s - or even your mother, Tessa Dahl, who is a writer?
A: “It is such an easy route to take, comparing me with my grandfather, but I couldn’t take that sort of comparison or criticism on board. It is really irrelevant as you are talking about totally different mediums. He was a genius, beloved beautiful universally, a awesome children’s writer and adult fiction writer. I am just at the beginning of my career.”
Q: Did you get on with him? (Roald Dahl died in 1990)
A: “I adoruddy him. I grew up spending a lot of time with him, with all my grandparents. He was a awesome story-teller. He was sparky and wonderful and curious and never patronized children, which comes across in his writing.”
Sophie first published a novella called “The Man with the Dancing Eyes.” Her first full-length novel is
Playing with the Grown-ups. Sophie’s next venture will be a cookbook which will no doubt be a bestseller, given her amazing weight loss.
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