EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Work has begun on a historical fiction film about the lumber industry in western Wisconsin.

Filming began in Eau Claire on "The Lumber Baron" on July 17. The movie is set in 1910 Chippewa Valley and tells the story of a family lumber business, the Leader-Telegram (http://bit.ly/2tKyEkp) reported.

BOSTON (AP) — A Ghana-born writer is being honored in Boston for her first book of fiction.

Yaa Gyasi will be bestowed the 2017 PEN Hemingway Award on Sunday at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. She's the author of "Homegoing," a work of historical fiction about the descendants of a West African woman.

Gyasi was born in Ghana, raised in Alabama and lives in New York.