1.   Awardees, announced this week, included writers, scientists, artists and grass-roots leaders.

2.   Contributors now include writers like Anna Quindlen and Joyce Maynard.

3.   Contributors to the new Mirabella include writers like Jane Smiley, Marsha Norman, Mary Gaitskill and Meg Wolitzer.

4.   Many people, this writer included, did not see the need for another guide to North American birds.

5.   Looking to help, crowds of citizens, including history writer David McCullough, sought to donate blood at George Washington University Hospital in Foggy Bottom.

6.   Ronin is a curious action-thriller for the post-Cold War era, when nearly everyone seems world-weary, including writers of action-thrillers.

7.   She also acknowledges debts to many teachers, including two writers in particular.

8.   Stokesbury says he is honored to be joining a distinguished list of winners that includes Pulitzer Prize writers Maxine Kumin and Adrienne Rich.

9.   Styron said that he was surprised, too, by the omission of Patrick White and that he wished the list had included American writer Eudora Welty.