David Radavich has been awarded the 2012 Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize. His essay, " 'A Stone, a Leaf, a Door': The Narrative Poetics of Thomas Wolfe," was honored as the best essay published in the past year on American novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900-38). He accepted the award at the Thomas Wolfe Society Conference in Asheville, N.C., in May. He is a past president of the Society.