NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The 2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS, announced November 14, include Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner, for non-fiction; Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson for fiction; and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianby Sherman Alexie for Young People’s Literature. Robert Hass won the poetry award for Time and Materials.
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Note: 2006 National Book Award fiction finalist and Philadelphia author KEN KALFUS will be reading from his novel, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which is set in New York after 9/11, at Bookcourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York, at 7 PM, November 15. For more information call 718-875-3677 or visit www.bookcourt.org.