National Book Awards - Winners

Last Night the National Book Awards were presented in a fabulous ceremony on Wall Street in New York. Click here for details of the winners and interviews with winners and nominees.

Winners for 2008 available at Harford County Public Library are as follows:

Fiction - Peter Matthiessen for Shadow Country: a New Rendering of the Watson Legend. Find this book in our catalog.

Nonfiction - Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Find this book in our catalog.

Poetry - Mark Doty for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. Find this book in our catalog.

Young People's Literature - Judy Blundell for What I Saw and How I Lied. Find this book in our catalog.