Awards Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) She will receive the $15,000 award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. John F. Cogan will receive the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize for The High Cost of Good Intentions. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, honoring books that address racism and diversity, are going to Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. The newest book promotion from Bill Gates is for his late friend Hans Rosling‘s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the […]