Author and educator Jonathan Kozol speaks after receiving the 5th annual "Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship", right, at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in The Bronx, N.Y., Monday Dec. 5, 2005. Kozol, 69, a National Book Award winner, received the $100,000 prize three months after his 11th book "Shame of the Nation," focused on segregation in American schools.
David Dodd, author of a new book "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics," poses at the public library in San Rafael, Calif., where he is head reference librarian.
Writer James Purdy, 82, a cult favorite, poses in his Brooklyn apartment. Publisher Carroll & Graf has reissued three of Purdy's fiction works and Northwestern University next summer will release his collected plays.
Mexican author Sergio Pitol after a talk with students and a reading of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote," at the National University in Mexico on Tuesday Dec. 6, 2005. Pitol recently won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary award. He is the third Mexican to receive the award, after Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz.
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the American novelist, speaks at a conference at the 19th Guadalajara International Book Fair, Sunday, Nov. 27 2005, in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mystery novelist Patricia Cornwell, a forensics specialist, poses during an interview at her home in New York on Oct. 27, 2005. Her newest release is "Predator."
Author Tomas Segovia of Spain, the 2005 Juan Rulfo Prize winner, looks out at the conference audience at the 19th Guadalajara International Book Fair Sunday, Nov. 27 2005, in Guadalajara City, Mexico.
Author and screenwriter Larry McMurtry attends the premiere of "Brokeback Mountain" Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005, in New York. McMurtry, who won the Pulitzer Prize for "Lonesome Dove," wrote the screenplay for the Ang Lee movie, based on a short story by Annie Proulx.
Legendary blues musician B.B. King signs copies of his combined new book and CD collection "The B.B. King Treasures," in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005.
James Hansen, author of "First Man," an authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong, hands an Apollo 11 patch to a fan during a book signing Nov. 11, 2005, in Cincinnati.
Dr. Michael F. Roizen holds a classroom model of the human brain in his office at the Cleveland Clinic Nov. 16, 2005. Roizen and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz from Columbia University co-authored "You: The Owner's Manual," billed as an insider's guide to the human body.
Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld, center, is flanked by Gerhard Langemeyer, mayor of Dortmund, Germany, left, and the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, during an award ceremony in Dortmund, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. Appelfeld recieved the Nelly-Sachs award in recognition of his career.
British writer Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Literature laureate, makes a speech broadcast from England to spectators and media at the Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2005. Pinter, who has been under treatment for cancer, was to have delivered the traditional Nobel lecture in person but was forced to cancel his trip because of poor health.
Media activists Robert McChesney, right, a University of Illinois communications professor, and John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, pose in San Francisco, Nov. 10, 2005. They are authors of a new media book, "Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy."
Author Peter Guralnick, right, talks with L.C. Cooke, brother of singer Sam Cooke, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Nov. 4, 2005. Following the success of his two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Guralnick tells Cooke's life story in "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke," released last month by Little, Brown and Company.
British Broadcaster David Attenborough signs copies of his latest publication, "Life In The Undergrowth," published in connection with the BBC One series, at the Natural History Museum in London on Dec. 7, 2005.
Former President Jimmy Carter greets a fan during a signing of his new book, "Our Endangered Values," at Borders Westwood on Nov. 21, 2005, in Westwood, Calif.
Lisa Ling poses at an appearance for her new book "Mother Daughter Sister Bride: Rituals of Womanhood" at Borders in New York on Nov. 18, 2005.
Singer Mariah Carey joins in a special holiday reading of "Peter Pan" to Fresh Air Fund children and WKTU contest winners at The Theater at Madison Square Garden Dec. 7, 2005, in New York.
Musician Patti Smith signs copies of her new book of poetry "Augeries of Innocence" at Barnes & Noble Union Square Dec. 7, 2005, in New York.