Karnow, who had congestive heart failure, died in his sleep at his home in Potomac, Maryland. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,' which sheds light on the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption. Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her moving novel 'The Round House,' about a woman raped in a Native American community, at the annual national book...
11:31 AM, Nov 15, 2012
New York: A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine. The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night. "The story is written in terse dispatches of 140 characters or less, which will be tweeted, through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter...
11:06 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s. Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times' were treated as the vocal interpretation of civil rights, and anti-war movements. 'Like a...
11:21 AM, May 24, 2012
New York: The late Manning Marable won the Pulitzer Prize for history on Monday, honoured for a Malcolm X book he worked on for decades but did not live to see published. For the first time in 35 years, no fiction prize was given. Pulitzer judges almost awarded two posthumous prizes. David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," a novel assembled from notes he left behind at the time of his...
02:15 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Pulitzer award winning writer and journalist, Joseph Lelyveld had come under fire in India for 2011 his book 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India.' Here's the writer on the book, the controversy and of course, Salman Rushdie. ...
06:21 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New York: Starting this week and continuing into 2012, virtually all Michael Chabon novels, stories and other writings will become available as e-books; news the author looks upon with pleasure and resignation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Chabon has been a published author since 1988, long enough to land on both sides of the legal and financial digital divide. Chabon controls e-rights...
11:42 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New York: The Pulitzer Prize board is changing how news organizations can enter its competition and says all submissions must now be done online. The board announced on Wednesday that paper submissions would no longer be accepted. Instead, a digital entry form will go through the Pulitzer website. Paper submissions have been in use since the contest began in 1917. The board says the new system will streamline the process...
07:01 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his very first book, says there is no conclusive study linking the use of cell phones to brain cancer. But no study conclusively ruled it out, either, says Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. Mukherjee's book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" won him the coveted honour. "Finding a causal...
12:00 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Siddhartha Mukherjee's monumental 'The Emperor of All Maladies' meticulously outlines the trajectory of cancer (derived from the Greek word "karkinos," meaning crab) over thousands of years, starting in ancient Egypt. In 2010, seven million people around the world died of cancer. Many have experienced the horrors of this disease through personal experience. The author provides us with a global view of this "shape-shifting entity [that is] imbued with such metaphorical...
11:51 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Boston: Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category. According to the Pulitzer citation, the book by the New York-based cancer physician and researcher is "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science"....
09:34 AM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: The latest biography on Mahatma Gandhi, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India' is not even available here yet, but Gujarat and Maharashtra are banning it. The central government is deciding not to, after some consideration. The Pulitzer Prize winning author and former New York Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld has trashed media reports that have stirred up a controversy, also saying that a ban reflects...
10:13 AM, Apr 01, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra government will initiate steps to ban sale of a controversial book on Mahatma Gandhi by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Joseph Lelyveld. "Gandhiji was a respected leader and is known as the father of nation. He led the freedom movement of India. The government will initiate steps to ensure that the book is not published in the state," Industries Minister Narayan Rane told the Legislative Council today. The minister also...
04:53 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: Former cricketers on Friday blamed the hype over Sachin Tendulkar's bid for his 100th international hundred and the batsmen's inability to cope with seaming conditions for India's defeats in Australia. India suffered their sixth successive Test defeat away from home, including four in England, when they lost the second Test to Australia by an innings and 68 runs in Sydney on Friday. Tendulkar's bid for an unprecedented century...
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