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NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Naomi Shihab Nye is this year's winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� This year's National Book Awards 75th anniversary ceremony won't only be a tribute to literature. Expect some laughs and some music, too.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Percival Everett's novel 鈥淛ames,鈥� his acclaimed reworking of 鈥淭he Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,鈥� has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett's recent wave of literary honors.

TORONTO 鈥� Lifelong journalist, broadcaster, author and editor Robert Fulford was remembered Wednesday as a prolific writer whose vibrant intellect and insatiable curiosity inspired colleagues and younger writers alike.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Barry Diller has a memoir coming out next spring, covering a life that could fill multiple volumes.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah鈥檚 Book Club by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough (Random House Publishing Group) 2. Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell (Grand Central Publishing) 3.

From the very first page of Susan Minot鈥檚 latest novel, 鈥淒on鈥檛 Be a Stranger,鈥� Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, has sex on her mind.

It鈥檚 early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She鈥檚 surfing, and she鈥檚 darned good at it.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book 鈥� her first 鈥� that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ken Follett's next historical epic will look back to the origins of one of the world's most famous and enigmatic destinations 鈥� Stonehenge. The Welsh author's 鈥淐ircle of Days鈥� is scheduled for next Sept.