Colum McCann won the National Book Award for fiction for Let the Great World Spin.
The award for nonfiction went to T.J. Stiles for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The prize for Young People's Literature went to Phillip Hoose for Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Claudette Colvin was an African American teen living in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950's; Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rose Parks did the same.
Keith Waldrop received the award for poetry for Transcendental studies: a trilogy.
Read more at The New York Times
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