McCann novel wins national award for fiction

Tales of rich and poor loom large

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press Phillip Hoose, left, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for his book “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” and Claudette Colvin, the subject of his book, raise their arms as Hoose speaks at the National Book Awards Wednesday Nov. 18 in New Yor...

NEW YORK—The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we...

Published: 11/22/2009