Streisand’s early years chronicled in photos

NEW YORK — How obsessive are Barbra Streisand’s fans? A coffee table book may provide an answer.

Publisher Taschen announced Wednesday that “Barbra: Streisand’s Early Years in Hollywood, 1968-1976” will be published in December. According to Taschen, the book will include more than 240 images, many of them never published before. The text will feature a conversation between photojournalists Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller, both of whom were commissioned to work with Streisand after she arrived in Hollywood.

But the main Collector’s Edition is limited — 1,000 copies. And the price is worthy of seats at a Streisand concert: $750. Two “Art Editions” are even more limited, 100 copies each, and cost $1,800. One set of “Art Edition” books features a print signed by Schapiro, the other a print signed by Schiller.

Winners announced for Jaffe awards

NEW YORK — Two poets, two fiction writers and two nonfiction writers have been named winners of this year’s Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards.

Each winner will receive $30,000.

The awards are given to emerging women writers who show “excellence and promise.” The winners, announced Wednesday, are fiction writers Olivia Clare and T.H. Khleif, nonfiction writers Karen Hays and Mara Naselli and poets Danielle Jones-Pruett and Solmaz Sharif. Projects the winners have in the works range from a novel by Khleif about Syrian society and politics to essays by Hays about the “lore, language, and landscape” of Missouri’s Corn Belt.

Novelist Rona Jaffe established the awards in 1995. Previous winners include Tracy K. Smith, Lan Samantha Chang and ZZ Packer.

Jaffe died in 2005.

— From wire reports