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Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for ?The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,? while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for ?Shadow Country.? |
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U.S. National Book Awards go to slave, outlaw books
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A book about a slave family with ties to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and novel about a notorious Florida outlaw were among the winners at America's 59th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday. |
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Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize
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Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award 30 years ago. |
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