No, not basketball! The 2009 National Book Award winners were announced this week. Catch coverage of the ceremony and dinner on C-SPAN2, BookTV on Saturday (11/21) @ 8 p.m. EST and Sunday (11/22) @ 10 a.m. EST.
Young People's Literature
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip Hoose
(available @ the Main library)
Poetry
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
by Keith Waldrop
Nonfiction
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Stiles
Fiction
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Gore Vidal
The Literarian Award
Dave Eggers (as in the author of The Wild Things, available @ Dorris Van Doren)
The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
(available @ Dorris Van Doren)
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