2008 National Book Awards were announced last night at a black tie dinner in New York. I was in Houston, Texas in my PJs, taking a break from a 16-hour writing day, downing a beer in front of "Top Chef". (Sheesh, we live in a competitive world.) Anyway. The envelope, please...YA Lit
Judy Blundell
What I Saw and How I Lied
(Scholastic)
Poetry
Mark Doty
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
(HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Fiction
Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
(Modern Library)
