Best books of 2012: The year in news
Jan. 23
Jack Gantos wins the Newbery Medal for “Dead End in Norvelt,” about his boyhood town in Pennsylvania.
March 13
After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica announces it will go all-digital and stop printing bound volumes.
April 16
Pulitzer Prize board declines to award a prize for fiction this year.
May 1
Robert Caro releases the fourth volume of his biography of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
May 2
A celebration is held at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to mark the 350th anniversary of the Anglican “Book of Common Prayer.” Continue reading
