Briefly

Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Anne Tyler and Jamaica’s Marlon James are among six finalists for the £50,000 ($102,000) Booker Prize for fiction. James is the first Jamaican finalist. Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread is one of two books by Americans on the list, alongside Hawaiian writer Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life. The list includes two books by Britons and The Fishermen, by Nigeria’s Chigozie Obioma. The winner will be announced Oct. 13.

Orson Welles’ personal manuscripts for Citizen Kane are going on the auction block, including the film’s final revised shooting script. The three screenplays are being offered by Profiles in History on Sept. 30. The sale also includes a rare original transcript of the 1938 Mercury Theatre radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and the cover letter from the network apologizing for the mass hysteria created by the dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.

The art collection of celebrated writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou sold for nearly $1.3 million (U.S.) on Tuesday.

A painted story quilt that hung in Angelou’s Harlem home and was commissioned by Oprah Winfrey for Angelou’s 61st birthday brought $461,000 at the Swann Galleries sale. The nearly 50 artworks were consigned to the auction house’s African-American Fine Art Department by Angelou’s estate. Angelou died last year at age 86.

Nina Tassler, one of the most prominent women in the television industry as CBS entertainment chairman since 2004, says she is leaving her job at the end of the year. Glenn Geller, one of her top deputies, has been promoted to CBS entertainment president to replace her. Tassler has ushered in some of television’s most popular programs over the past decade, including The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife and the NCIS franchise.