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November 20, 2019 Last Aired December 1, 2019
2019 National Book Awards

Book TV presented coverage of the 70th annual National Book Awards, which included awards in non-fiction and fiction categories. Oren Teicher received the Foundation’s Literarian Award for O…
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February 20, 2018 Last Aired March 31, 2018
2018 PEN America Literary Awards

The PEN America Literary Awards, given annually since 1963, recognizes books in a range of categories; from biography and science writing to essays and poetry.
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January 13, 2013 Last Aired February 18, 2013
Biographies and the Limits of Objectivity

From the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Florida, authors Jay Parini, Brenda Wineapple, Edmund White and Phyllis Rose talked about biographies and the limits of objectivit…
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November 16, 2008 Last Aired April 4, 2009
Art of Biography Panel

Edmund White Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel), Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits)…
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October 15, 2006 Last Aired November 24, 2006
Writing Memoirs

Charles McGrath moderated a panel discussion on memoir writing. Panelists discussed their writings and the truthfulness of memoirs. Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of The Lost: A Search …
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