New Look for National Book
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The Foundation will be updating the look of our website over the coming week (starting on the evening of 2/5/2012). You may have some difficulty accessing certain pages and features of our site during this time. If you have any questions please contact us at nationalbook@nationalbook.org.
Thanks for your patience.
FEATURE:
Applications for 2012 Innovations In Reading Prize Now Available
The application for the fourth annual Innovations in Reading Prize is now available. Each year, this prize is awarded to individuals and institutions that have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading.
Download the application and to see a list of
previous winners >
FEATURE:
Tickets On Sale for 2012 Season of Eat, Drink & Be Literary @ BAMcafe
Each spring and fall, the Foundation, in partnership with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), presents eight acclaimed authors for Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Dinner and a Reading in BAMcafé. Each event includes a delicious buffet dinner, a reading by the featured author, a discussion with the moderator, and a question-and-answer session with the audience.
NBA Feature Photo:
Poetry Judges for the 1950 National Book Awards
Louise Bogan, Louis Untermeyer, Horace Gregory, Babette Deutsch, W.H. Auden
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