The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of
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Nell Painter requires two lengthy CVs not only to fit in all she s accomplished in her long life, but also for the myriad identities she s fashioned for herself: historian and artist, Black woman and, yes, old woman.
At 78
, Painter, who lives in Newark, boasts a decorated legacy as a scholar of Black history. She s received degrees from Harvard, the University of Ghana and the University of Bordeaux in France, among others. Prestigious universities, including Yale and Dartmouth, have awarded her honorary degrees, and she s earned numerous titles and published critically acclaimed written works.
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Still looking for that “something else” gift for readers? Here’s a brief look at some books that might fulfill your quest.
•Fredrik Bachman, author of the ever-popular “A Man Called Ove” and “My Grandmother Told Me to Say She’s Sorry,” has released a touching novel about life, “Anxious People.”
He writes realistically, making his character live on the pages, and deals with the highs and lows of life in a now-humorous, now-sensitive manner. All in all, the book is being received very well by readers.
•I first discovered Christopher Paolini after he wrote about dragons as a 19-year-old. His self-published “Eragon” became a movie and he followed it up with other books of the genre. Now, in the fullness of maturity as a writer, he’s introduced “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars,” a wide-open sci-fi novel about the harrowing search for life on an uncolonized planet as war erupts among the worlds on the stars.
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This week the National Women’s Hall of Fame introduced several new members in a virtual setting.
“While we are living in unprecedented times the NWHF wanted to use this otherwise tumultuous year to innovate the way we operate, and reflect on our past,” the HOF said in a post on its Facebook page about the virtual event.
It was held Thursday, December 10th.
Here’s more on the inductees:
Mary Church Terrell (1863 –1954)
Mary Church Terrell, born during the Civil War, was one of the most prominent activists of her era with a career that spanned well into the civil rights movements of the1950’s. Terrell was one of the first Black women to earn a college degree, in Classics at Oberlin College, and one of the first to earn an MA. She taught Latin at the M Street school the first Black public high school in the nation in Washington, DC. In 1896, she was the first Black woman in the United States appointed to the school board of a major city, serving