Richard Powers Wins the National Book Award
Posted by: Keir
As reported last night by our New York correspondent, John Green, Richard Powers has won the National Book Award for fiction. Well deserved, in this humble blogger’s opinion. The full list:
- Fiction: Richard Powers for The Echo Maker (Farrar)
- Nonfiction: Timothy Egan for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton)
- Young People’s Literature: M.T. Anderson for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (Candlewick)
- Poetry: Nathaniel Mackey for Splay Anthem (New Directions)
A little more detail in the Washington Post. Quoth Powers:
“I’ve got to say, that does a number on your brain chemistry.”
Really, could he have said anything else? (Read the book!)
