Winfrey gave a speech about the impact of books at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City on Wednesday Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, ...

Maya Angelou will finally receive an honorary National Book Award this year. Angelou, best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is, of course, universally beloved. But why has it taken quite so ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U ...

The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today. By Leila Mottley In his memoir, “What Have We Here?,” ...