NEW YORK — (AP) — At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor.

Besides Miranda, the academy's class of 2025 includes such prize-winning authors as Jesmyn Ward, Gish Jen and Elizabeth Alexander, architect Ricardo Scofidio, and visual artists ranging from the ...

But with Mona in the Promised Land, her second novel, Chinese-American writer Gish Jen is at once more subtle and more adventurous than Lee, exploring territory beyond the immediate (and predictable) ...