Wednesday night, the National Book Foundation announced this year's winners:
Fiction: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Nonfiction: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, TJ. Stiles
Poetry: Transcedental Studies: A Trilogy, Keith Waldrop
Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin, Phillip Hoose.
Fiction: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
Nonfiction: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, TJ. Stiles
Poetry: Transcedental Studies: A Trilogy, Keith Waldrop
Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin, Phillip Hoose.
Additionally, Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Stories was named Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. I'm really glad because that's the book I voted for. (And, yes, I know that sentence ends in a preposition, but consider the alternative: " . . . because that's the book for which I voted." Hmmm. I don't think so. It's like the Winston Churchill quote: "That is something up with which I will not put.)
