Friday, November 21, 2008

National Book Awards 2008

Here are the winners of the National Book Awards for 2008 announced this week:


Young People's Literature

Judy Blundell
What I Saw and How I Lied
(Scholastic)

Poetry

Mark Doty
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems

(HarperCollins)

Nonfiction

Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
(W.W. Norton & Company)

Fiction

Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
(Modern Library)

Source: National Book Foundation

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