National Book Award WinnersThe National Book Awards ceremony was held last Wednesday evening. Medal winners included What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (Young People's Literature) and The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (Non-Fiction). Peter Matthiessen's Shadow Country took top prize in the fiction category; Mark Doty's Fire to Fire won in the poetry category.
The awards, founded in 1950, are sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers numerous educational and literary programs.
The awards, founded in 1950, are sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization that offers numerous educational and literary programs.
