Sunday, September 30, 2018
Winfrey to present literary award to author Toni Morrison
NEW YORK
The latest prize for Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be presented by Oprah Winfrey.
The Center for Fiction announced Thursday that Morrison will receive a lifetime achievement honor for “Excellence in Fiction.”
Winfrey, who has chosen such Morrison novels as “Song of Solomon” and “Paradise” for her book club, will introduce the author during a Dec. 11 dinner ceremony.
Morrison’s longtime publisher, editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta of Alfred A. Knopf, also will be honored that night. He is the winner of the Maxwell Perkins Award, named for the celebrated editor of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald among others. He will receive the prize from novelist Carl Hiassen.
The Center for Fiction is a nonprofit with a mission to “encourage people to read and value fiction.”
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s mother is releasing a book of letters
NEW YORK
The mother of former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. is working on a book of letters she sent him while he was in prison.
Skyhorse Publishing announced Jacqueline L. Jackson’s “Loving You, Thinking of You, Don’t Forget to Pray: Letters to My Son in Prison.” The book includes an introduction by Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of the civil-rights activist and former presidential candidate. The younger Jackson served a 30-month term, which ended in 2015, for filing false tax returns. He was an eight-term congressman from Illinois, and resigned in 2012, the year before he was sent to prison.
According to Skyhorse, the letters are “frank, anecdotal, infused with faith, and sometimes humorous,” touching upon family life and current events.
Associated Press