National Book Award Winners for this year were announced at a ceremony hosted last night in Manhattan by John Lithgow:
Award for Young People’s Literature: Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Award for Nonfiction: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt – “how a 15th century book lover was the catalyst for the Renaissance’s rediscovery of classicism.”
Award for Fiction: Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward – “12 days in the life of a poor African American family attempting to weather Hurricane Katrina in coastal Mississippi.”
Award for Poetry: Head Off and Split by Nicky Finney
The No Charge Book Bunch 