2009 National Book Award Winners
Posted on November 20, 2009
The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced. Here is a list of the winners.
- Fiction: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Random House)
- Nonfiction: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Poetry: Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop (University of California Press)
- Young People's Literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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