THE STRANGER DIARIES by Elly Griffiths has won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel. This is Griffiths’ second Edgar Award, as she was awarded the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2011 for her novel THE CROSSING PLACES. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the book on March 5, 2019.

WHAT BLEST GENIUS? is the 2019 winner of the Marfield Prize. The Marfield Prize annually recognizes an author of an outstanding nonfiction book about the visual, literary, media, or performing arts. W.W. Norton & Company published the second edition of the book on April 2, 2019.

Two stories from Ted Chiang’s short story collection EXHALATION are finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards. His story “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” was named a finalist in the Best Novella category and his story “Omphhalos” was named a finalist in the Best Novelette category. The author also did an interview with Electric Literature for a piece entitled “Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In.” Knopf published the book on May 18, 2019.

Katherine Arden’s WINTERNIGHT TRILOGY, comprised of THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE, THE GIRL IN THE TOWER, and THE WINTER OF THE WITCH, is a finalist for a Hugo Award in the category of Best Series. Del Rey published THE WINTER OF THE WITCH, the final book of the trilogy, on January 8, 2019.

BECOMING SUPERMAN by J. Michael Straczynski has been named a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Awards in the category Best Related Work. This award is given to a work related to the field of science fiction, fantasy, or fandom. Harper Voyager published the book on July 23, 2019.

Andrea Lawlor has won a 2020 Whiting Award in Fiction. The awards are given annually to ten emerging writers whose work shows promise and excellence. Entertainment Weekly ran a feature interview with Lawlor to acknowledge her win, titled "Queer author Andrea Lawlor just won a Whiting Award. It's been a long, gratifying road." Rescue Press published the book on November 1, 2017, and Vintage reissued the book on April 23, 2019.

Anne Boyer, author of the acclaimed memoir THE UNDYING, has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. The award comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000 to support her writing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book on September 17, 2019.

Namwali Serpell, author of THE OLD DRIFT, has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. The award comes with an unrestricted grant of $165,000 to support her writing. Hogarth published the book on March 26, 2019.

WE CAST A SHADOW by Maurice Carlos Ruffin has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States. The winner will be announced on April 6, and all five authors will be honored at the 40th anniversary PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony on May 4 at the Willard Hotel. One World published the book on January 29, 2019.

Elaine Welteroth’s New York Times-bestselling memoir MORE THAN ENOUGH has won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography. The ceremony was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 22, 2020. Welteroth has also been selected as the Cultural Ambassador for Michelle Obama’s organization When We All Vote, a non-partisan voting initiative that aims to increase voter turnout, particularly among young people, women, and people of color. MORE THAN ENOUGH was published by Viking on June 11, 2019, and will be available in paperback this spring.