National Book Award Winners Announced

The winners of the National Book Award were announced today. The winners are:

Fiction

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

NonFiction

T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press)

Young People's Literature

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

More information on the National Book Award and interviews with the authors can be found at this web address:

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009.html