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NEW YORK -- Isabel Wilkerson's “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year's finalists for National Book Critics Circle prizes.The critics circle announced five nominees in each of six competitive categories Sunday, and seven finalists for an award for best first book.

NEW YORK -- Florence Howe, an activist, educator and major contributor to American literature and culture who as co-founder of the Feminist Press helped revive such acclaimed and influential works as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in the Iron Mills,” has died.Howe died Saturday in Manhattan, according to the Feminist Press.

https://t.co/VG0Rd08b6O“I would say we started what has become an avalanche of the rediscovery of women writers.”Florence Howe, ‘Mother of Women’s Studies,’ Dies at 91 https://t.co/9nddhgYfjPFlorence Howe was a force of nature.