St. Louis Literary Award

Jamaica Kincaid’s works include “Annie John,” “A Small Place,” and the soon-to-be published, “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”

English writer Neil Gaiman is a recipient of both the Newbery and Carnegie medals.

St. Louis University honors Arundhati Roy at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Thursday.

St. Louis University honors Zadie Smith this week as the 2021 recipient of the St. Louis Literary Award. Smith’s 2019 story collection, “Grand Union,” is this year’s campus read.

Zadie Smith comes to St. Louis this week to receive an award from St. Louis University. She’s in good company: From Shelby Foote and Eudora Welty to George Plimpton and Chinua Achebe, the annual award has drawn heavy literary hitters to town since 1967.

Chabon, who is this week receiving the 2020 St. Louis Literary Award, talks with "St. Louis on the Air" host Sarah Fenske about his successes, his struggles and how the joy of good sentences sustains him.

Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat is the recipient of the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award. It’s given by the St. Louis University Library Associates.…

Stephen Sondheim hesitates to settle on a single beginning point from which his now 70-year-long career in musical theater took off. There were the piano…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 09, 2010 -As the recipient of this year's 43rd Saint Louis Literary Award, author Don DeLillo…