Tag: Women

1923: The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors…

The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors, and receives more than 700 submissions in its first year. The first winner, The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson, is later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1924). More

1993: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years…

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years, which recounts her eleven and a half years at London’s 10 Downing Street, the official prime minister’s residence, with HarperCollins. More

Anne Hillerman

I read to take a mini-vacation in my own living room, to go back in history, forward in time, or to a place I love and had forgotten. More

Anne Hillerman

The Stone Diaries

Winner of the 1993 Governor General’s Award (Canada) and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. More

Sarah Morgan

I read for many reasons. More

Sarah Morgan

Robin Preiss Glasser

Robin Preiss Glasser

1943: Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is published…

Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a story about growing up poor in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn, shines a light on first- and second-generation Americans living in poverty. More

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Multimillion-copy global bestseller that won critical acclaim for its beautifully wrought depiction of innocence corrupted. More

1848: Harper & Brothers publishes the first American editions of the Brontë’s works

Harper & Brothers publishes the first American editions of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. More

Pushing the Boundaries of Children’s Literature

Children’s books explored uncharted territory in the mid-1960s as Harper & Row began to champion boundary-pushing children’s and young adult books. More

Bridge to Terabithia

Newbery Medal–winning novel; a true modern classic and touchstone of children’s literature. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Letter from Agatha Christie

This letter from Agatha Christie (here signing with her second married name, Mallowan) shows the close relationship she had with Collins publisher Billy Collins. More

2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker Prize…

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, published by HarperCollins in the UK, wins the Man Booker Prize. Mantel becomes the first woman ever to win the prize twice, having first won for Wolf Hall in 2009. More

1972: Avon launches the historical romance genre…

Avon launches the historical romance genre when it publishes Kathleen Woodiwiss’s The Flame and the Flower, a historical romance with a strong female lead and sexual situations that go a step beyond the tame romances of earlier eras. More

The Year of Magical Thinking

Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. More

And Then There Were None

The bestselling crime novel of all time. More

Wolf Hall

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More

Jane O’Connor

I really have no hobbies—nearly all of my leisure time is spent with a good book. More

Jane O’Connor

Ariel

Plath’s landmark poetry collection; includes “Ariel,” “Daddy,” and “Lady Lazarus.” More

Pallavi Aiyyar

I read to travel within and to range wide beyond my limited firsthand experiences. More

Pallavi Aiyyar

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Newbery Award winner about the power of family, which has sold over 4.5 million copies. More

Deborah Challinor

I read to escape, whether the genre is crime, historical, dystopian, thriller, or biography. More

Deborah Challinor

Susan Mallery

When I write, I have a specific reader in mind. More

Susan Mallery

Tara Moss

Thanks to my parents, I’ve been a passionate reader since childhood. More

Tara Moss

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

An American classic called “one of the books of the century” by the New York Public Library. More

Sara Pennypacker

I write because the really good stuff—how funny and beautiful the world is, even when it’s not; More

Sara Pennypacker