Gwendolyn Harper, author portrait

Gwendolyn Harper

Gwendolyn Harper (translator) won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Works in Progress grant from the Robert B. Silvers foundation for Wild Desire and Other Writings. She has an MFA from Brown University.

Get Inspired! Books for After-School Clubs & Activities

Coordinating after-school clubs and activities in your school community? Explore our collection of books that will help students discover their passion for new (and screen-free!) hobbies. Focusing on topics such as art, board games, crafting, cooking, nature, sports, and more—these books are bound to spark imagination and movement. Browse the middle school and high school

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Congratulations to the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners!

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English. Here the titles published by Penguin Random House that are among the NBCC Award winners:   Fiction category: My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)   Autobiography category: Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translation by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel

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