National Book Awards
Nonfiction
Just kids / Patti Smith
"A memoir of her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe and life in the bohemian New York of the 1960s and ’70s."
Fiction
Lord of Misrule / Jaimy Gordon
Tells the story of the ruthless world of horse racing in West Virginia.
Young People's Literature
Mockingbird / Kathryn Erskine
The story of an 11 year old girl's struggle with Asperger's.
Poetry
Lighthead / Terrance Hayes
Tom Wolfe was awarded the 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Joan Ganz Cooney, a public television producer and founder of the Children’s Television Workshop in 1968, won the 2010 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
[from The New York Times)
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