Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, receiving a 2023 National Humanities Medal

2025 writer Kaveh Akbar is a National Book Award Finalist for his debut novel, Martyr!

Rita Braver was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle for her work as a national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning

James McBride's latest novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which follows the Black and Jewish residents of a Pennsylvania town in the early 20th century, hit a milestone: Since its release last summer, it has sold more than a million copies. Most authors are lucky to sell 10,000 books.

Dr. Longo has long advocated longer and better living through eating Lite Italian, one of a global explosion of Road to Perpetual Wellville theories about how to stay young in a field that is itself still in its adolescence.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer has been named Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, the first to hold this title.