2009 National Book Award Winners

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)

You can find a list of finalists and interviews with the winners here on the National Book Award's website.

Posted on November 20, 2009