This undated image released by The Public Theater shows Tarell Alvin McCraney who will direct "Antony and Cleopatra" set on the eve of the Haitian Revolution. The play will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon home in November 2013 before coming to the United States to play at GableStage in January 2014 followed by The Public Theater in late January 2014. (AP Photo/The Public Theater)
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This undated image released by The Public Theater shows Tarell Alvin McCraney who will direct "Antony and Cleopatra" set on the eve of the Haitian Revolution. The play will premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon home in November 2013 before coming to the United States to play at GableStage in January 2014 followed by The Public Theater in late January 2014. (AP Photo/The Public Theater)
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FILE - This March 19, 2011 file photo shows Rachael Ray introducing a band at her Feedback side party during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The author and Emmy-winning chef is getting ready for next month's South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, where she again will be hosting all-day music performances, with more than a dozen bands. One of those bands, The Cringe, is led by her husband, John Cusimano. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, file)
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FILE - This Jan. 18, 2013 file photo shows actor Ben Foster poses at the premiere of "Kill Your Darlings" during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Foster will replace Shia LaBeouf in the Broadway play "Orphans." LaBeouf left the production on Wednesday, Feb. 20, due to creative differences. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, file)
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FILE- In this May 19, 2012, file photo, actor Shia LaBeouf poses during a photo call for Lawless at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. LaBeouf is pulling the plug on his Broadway debut. The star of the “Transformers” franchise had been slated to appear opposite Alec Baldwin in “Orphans” but producers said Wednesday that LaBeouf would not be continuing “due to creative differences.” (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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This booking photo released by the Darien, Conn., Police Department shows WCBS-TV anchor Rob Morrison arrested Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, at his home in Darien. Police said he fought with his wife and then choked her at their home and threatened her even after he was arrested. Morrison was scheduled to be in court Tuesday on charges of strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct. (AP Photo/Darien Police Department)
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WCBS Television anchorman Rob Morrison, left, listens as his attorney Robert Skovgaard checks a cell phone during his arraignment in Superior Court on Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013 in Stamford, Conn. Morrison was arrested Monday night on charges of attacking his wife, Ashley Morrison, at their Connecticut home. He is charged with strangulation, threatening and disorderly conduct and ordered to to stay 100 yards away from his wife except when they're both at work. Ashley Morrison works for "CBS Moneywatch." (AP Photo/New York Daily News, David Handschuh, Pool)
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In this image released by PBS, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess Grantham, is shown in a scene from the second season on "Downton Abbey." The 78-year-old actress, who portrays Lady Grantham in the popular PBS series, told “60 Minutes” that she hasn't watched the drama because doing so would only make her agonize over her performance. She said she may watch it someday. (AP Photo/PBS, Carnival Film & Television Limited 2011 for MASTERPIECE, Nick Briggs)
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 26, 2012 file photo, Genevieve Sabourin appears in New York state Supreme Court in New York, accused of stalking actor Alec Baldwin. The Canadian actress has been locked up again. New York City police detectives arrested Sabourin on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 after she apparently violated a restraining order. A judge had ordered Sabourin to stay away from Baldwin following her arrest earlier this year on harassment charges. Recent news reports said she had been tweeting angry comments about the "30 Rock" star's new wife. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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This image released by NBC shows Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, left, and Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney in a scene from the series finale of "30 Rock," airing Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 on NBC. (AP Photo/NBC, Ali Goldstein)
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FILE - This Dec. 20, 2012 file photo shows Tina Fey, left, and her husband Jeff Richmond at the "30 Rock" farewell wrap party in New York. After seven seasons, "30 Rock" airs its series conclusion Thursday at 8 p.m. EST on NBC. Fey serves as star, writer and creator of the series and Richmond is executive producer and the composer and arranger for the show. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, file)
9 authors and playwrights receive $150K Yale prize
NEW YORK (
AP) —
Yale University has announced nine winners of the Windham Campbell Prize, a new literary award worth $150,000 for each recipient.
Winners include James Salter, best known for his novella "A Sport and a Pastime," and playwright Naomi Wallace. The awards honor "outstanding achievement" for emerging and established writers. Three winners were announced for each of three categories: fiction, nonfiction and drama.
Other recipients were fiction writers Zoe Wicomb and Tom McCarthy; nonfiction writers Adina Hoffman, Jeremy Scahill and Jonny Steinberg; and playwrights Stephen Adly Guirgis and Tarell Alvin McCraney.
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