| Last night (Wednesday) the National Book Award winners were announced. They are as follows:
Young People’s Literature |
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Phillip Hoose
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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| Poetry |
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Keith Waldrop
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
(University of California Press) |
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| Nonfiction |
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T. J. Stiles
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf)
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| Fiction |
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Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin
(Random Hohttp://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_f_mccann.htmluse)
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| Distinguished Contribution to American Letters |
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Gore Vidal
Photo credit: Stathis Orphanos
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The Literarian Award
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Dave Eggers
Photo credit: Michelle Quint
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The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction
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The Complete Stories
By Flannery O’Connor
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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