Thursday, November 20, 2008

National Book Award winners announced

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