Archives for January 2023
Forthcoming: Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
Scribner will publish two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel, LET US DESCEND, on October 3. In an announcement, the publisher described the book as, “the astonishing story of Annis, an enslaved teenage girl who is sold by her white father after being separated from her mother. Annis is walked from a rice plantation in the Carolinas to a slave market in New Orleans, and ultimately to a sugar plantation in Louisiana.” “I wanted to look at this hard truth from our past, to explore what it would have been like for my character, Annis, to have little to […]
Luqman-Dawson Wins Newbery, Salati Wins Caldecott
The American Library Association presented the 2023 Youth Media Awards at the LibLearnX conference in New Orleans.
Carnegie Medals
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Emily Krump and Jessica Williams have each been promoted to vp/editorial director, William Morrow Fiction. Mauro DiPreta has been promoted to svp/editorial director, William Morrow Nonfiction.