Ezra Vogel, a Harvard scholar of Japan and China, dies at 90
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated January 30, 2021, 4:46 p.m.
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Dr. Ezra Vogel spent most of his academic career at Harvard and published several books on Asian affairs.Matt Craig,Staff Photographer/Harvard University News Office
With the intriguing title âJapan as Number One: Lessons for America,â Ezra Vogelâs best-known book was a best seller in Japan and back home in the United States, where the Harvard University professorâs fellow citizens might not have been as welcoming of the opinion that their country was no longer first.
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In 1993, Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person – and the first African-American – to receive this highest official honor in American Poetry. She served 1993-1995. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, The Library of Congress Bicentennial year. From 2004-2006, she served as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Thomas and Beulah” (1987), author of numerous poetry books, a novel, short stories, a play, and is editor of “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry.” Her honors include the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama the only poet ever to receive both medals as well as the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poe
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On January 24, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists in six categories for its annual awards honoring the best books of the previous publishing year. The finalists were named at a virtual make-up ceremony celebrating the winners of last year s awards; although the winners were previously announced, last year s ceremony was canceled due to the pandemic.
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