More Noted Things

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has won the Man Booker Prize for 2009. The novel is a"densely-plotted tale of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII." Among the winners of the American Book Awards for 2009 are Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science and Houston A. Baker, Jr.'s Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Right Era.

Donald Morrison,"Vive la différence," Financial Times, 2 October, reviews John Dummer's Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette, Debra Ollivier's What French Women Know: About Love, Sex and Other Affairs of the Heart, Michael Simkins's Détour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education, and Lucy Wadham's The Secret Life of France.

Allison Hoffman,"Something Old, Something New," Tablet, 6 October, reviews Elisa New's Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore; A Memoir in Five Generations.

Asher Smith,"The Tuesday Ten: The Chronicles of Strom," Emory Wheel, 5 October, interviews Emory's Joe Crespino about his current book project, a biography of Strom Thurmond.

Finally, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians has just posted its call for papers for 2011.