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• National Book Award — The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards.[1][2] Started in 1950,[dubious – discuss] the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a… …   Wikipedia

• Terry Gross — Infobox Radio Presenter name = Terry Gross imagesize = 200px caption = Terry Gross at the Georgia Tech FERST Center for the Arts, in Atlanta, November 2006. birthname = birthdate = 1951 birthplace = deathdate = deathplace = show = Fresh Air… …   Wikipedia

• Barney Rosset — Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr., more commonly known as Barney Rosset (born 1922), is the Chicago born American entrepreneur and former owner of the publishing house Grove Press. Rosset published the magazine Evergreen Review , and he also was the… …   Wikipedia

• Robert B. Silvers — (b. December 31 1929 in Mineola, New York) is editor of The New York Review of Books . He was co editor with Barbara Epstein for over 40 years until her death in June 2006. He also serves on the editorial committee of La Rivista dei Libri , the… …   Wikipedia

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Infobox Writer name = Lawrence Ferlinghetti imagesize =120px caption = Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore birthdate = birth date and age|1919|3|24 birthplace = Yonkers, New York, United States deathdate = occupation = poet, activist, essayist …   Wikipedia

• The New York Review of Books — Not to be confused with The New York Times Book Review. The New York Review of Books David Levine s caricature of John Updike in the November 24, 1983 issue Editor Robert B. Silvers Categories …   Wikipedia

• Roman Academies — includes a description of papal academies in Rome including historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these. Roman Academies were associations of learned men and not institutes for instruction.These Roman Academies… …   Wikipedia

• Ernesto Nathan — (October 5, 1848 April 9, 1921) was an English Italian politician, and mayor of Rome, Italy (November 1907 December 1913).BiographyNathan was born in London in 1848 to Sara Levi and Mayer Moses Nathan, of, respectively, English and German… …   Wikipedia

• Carlo Porta — (June 15, 1775ndash January 5, 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the central dialect of the Western Lombard language). Biography Porta was born in Milan to Giuseppe Porta and Violante Gottieri, a merchant family.… …   Wikipedia

• National Book Foundation — The National Book Foundation, founded in 1989, is an American nonprofit literary organization established to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America. [1] It achieves this through sponsoring the National Book Award, as well as… …   Wikipedia