As announced last week, University of California Press author Harryette Mullen received the 2009 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, one of the most distinguished awards in poetry in the …
Read More >Robin Blaser, prize-winning poet and author died last Thursday, just shy of his 84th birthday. The Globe and Mail and The Vancouver Sun published obituaries last week. Among the many books Blaser …
Read More >University of California Press and The Mark Twain Project are pleased to announce the landmark publication of Mark Twain’s Autobiography. The book and companion website will be available in 2010 to coincide …
Read More >It is with great sadness that UC Press marks the death of pioneering literary theorist, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Epistemology of the Closet (UC Press, 1990, 2007), the second of Sedgwick’s books, helped …
Read More >As part of its National Poetry Month celebration, The Academy of American Poets featured Brian Teare's poem Long after Hopkins as Monday's poem of the day. Brian Teare's poems are described by …
Read More >Author Fanny Howe has received one of the highest honors in American poetry, the Poetry Foundation‘s 2009 Ruth Lilly Prize. One of literature’s largest awards, the $100,000 annual prize celebrates a living …
Read More >The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Guggenheim Fellowships this year. Among the recipients are several UC Press authors, honored for their outstanding achievements in Poetry, Film, Classics, Folklore/Popular Culture, and …
Read More >Philip L. Fradkin is the author of eleven highly praised books, including A River No More and The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906. He was the first western editor of Audubon …
Read More >On February 12, 2009, Libby Motika, Senior Editor of the Palisadian-Post wrote a fantastic article on Philip Fradkin and his new book, Wallace Stegner and the American West (UC Press, February 2009). …
Read More >When Wallace Stegner was born 100 years ago, the frontier was long closed and memories of the Wild West were fading to myth. As an impassioned advocate for the great outdoors, an …
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