National Book Award Winners, from Clive Burlin
The National Book Award winners were announced yesterday:
- Non Fiction: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan
- Fiction: The Echo Maker, by Richard Power
- Poetry: Splay Anthem, by Nathaniel Mackey
- Young people’s literature: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson