Pen/Beard Awards

Cormac McCarthy has won the $25,000 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American fiction. The PEN American Center also named Steve Coll the recipient of a nonfiction award for his book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century; and awarded citations to Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, Ha Jin and 18 other authors for excellence in short fiction.
The James Beard Foundation named Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan as cookbook of the year.