The 2008 National Book Award winners were announced Wednesday night in a ceremony in New York City. The awards go to:
Fiction: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library); click here for interview
Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company); interview
Young People's Literature: Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied (Scholastic); interview
Poetry: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins); interview
For more, go to www.nationalbook.org
