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0034-0375. Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in ...
Known for. Co founding Reader's Digest with her husband. Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. Spouse. Dewitt Wallace. . ( m. 1921) . Lila Bell Wallace (December 25, 1889 – May 8, 1984) was an American magazine publisher and philanthropist. She co-founded Reader's Digest with her husband Dewitt Wallace, publishing the first issue in 1922.
In 1967 PCH ran its first sweepstakes as a way to increase subscription sales, based on the sweepstakes held by Reader's Digest. The first prizes ranged from $1 to $10 and entrants had a 1 in 10 chance of winning. After the sweepstakes increased response rates to mailings, prizes of $5,000 and eventually $250,000 were offered.
2018: Pages: 232: Awards: 2018 Writer’s Digest Grand Prize Winner, Best Indie Book Awards Winner, Reader's Favorite Book Award Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards Winner, Nautilus Book Awards Winner, Forward Indie’s Award Winner, Independent Press Award Winner, New York City Big Book Award Winner, Book Excellence Award Winner, International Book Award Winner, and The Ian Book of The ...
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
The prize was established to recognise the contribution of female writers, whom Mosse believed were often overlooked in other major literary awards, and in reaction to the all-male shortlist for the 1991 Booker Prize. The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the Bessie created by artist Grizel Niven, the ...
Harjo has since authored ten books of poetry, including her most recent, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: 50 Poems for 50 Years (2022), the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise (2019), which was a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award Winner; Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and named a Notable Book ...
American Book Award, NEA Fellowship, Pushcart Prize: Website; lornadice.blogspot.com: Literature portal: ... Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award (1995)