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Jules Farber talked about his book, James Baldwin: Escape from America, Exile in Provence, on James Baldwin’s life and writing career as an expat in France from 1970 until his death in 1987. He…

Professor Nicholas Delbanco talked about his book, The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts, in which he investigates the nature of artistic prodigies Stephen Crane, Dora…

Nicolas Delbanco, the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, talked about the life and works of Robert Frost, including his time spent in Ann Arbor, Michigan.…

The National Book Foundation presented its annual National Book Awards in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. The awards have been given since 1950.