National Book Awards Announced

The 2010 National Book Awards were announced Wednesday, November 17th, and longshot Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon won the award for fiction. Patti Smith won the nonfiction award for Just Kids, a memoir of Smith’s friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Mockingbird, by Kathryn Erskine won for Young People’s Literature and poet Terrance Hayes was awarded the poetry prize for Lighthead. The New York Times article provides a little more detail.