January 9, 2009
'The Shadow Country' receives National Book Award
Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback, giving the fiction award last night to Peter Matthiessen's The 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.
Other winners were Annette Gordon-Reed in nonfiction, for The Hemingses of Monticello; Mark Doty's Fire to Fire in poetry; and former genre writer-for-hire Judy Blundell in young people's literature, for What I Saw and How I Lied.
Each of the winners received $10,000.
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