2008 National Book Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The 60th Annual National Book Awards were presented November 18, 2009, in New York City.
Fiction: | Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann (Random House) |
Nonfiction: | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T. J. Stiles (Knopf) |
Poetry: | Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, Keith Waldrop (University of California Press) |
Young People's Literature: | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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