…take a look at the winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction: Shadow Mountain. It’s a reworking of three novels previously published by Peter Matthiessen, who said in his acceptance speech last night, “I’ve had a hard time over the years persuading people that fiction was my natural thing.”
The Non-Fiction award went to Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello – which rumor has it she won on her birthday. The Young People’s Literature award winner was Judy Blundell’s What I Saw and How I Lied. Poetry: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. And you can read more about it all on The National Book Award Site – including readings by the finalists – or in The New York Times. – Meg
