Sandra Cisneros joins the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and she says the honor feels like a long-awaited invitation.

U.S. poet laureate Ada Limón is launching her intended signature project in April.

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York.

Poet Carl Phillips has received a $75,000 honor for a body of work which judges said displays exceptional talent.