National Book Award

[nash-uh-nl book uh-wawrd, nash-nuhl]

noun

1. any of several awards given annually to an author whose book is judged the best in its category: presented 1936–42, reestablished 1950, and since 1998 administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. NBA, N.B.A.

Example Sentences

Gay plans to attend the National Book Awards ceremony in November, where she will be introduced by her friend and fellow writer, Jacqueline Woodson, who won a National Book Award in 2014 for the memoir “Brown Girl Dreaming” and has been a finalist three times since.

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She brings her impressive literary toolbox to bear here, and the novel ranks among her best work, alongside “American Woman” and the National Book Award laureate “Trust Exercise.”

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As Ned Blackhawk wrote in “The Rediscovery of America,” his National Book Award–winning history, “The exclusion of Native Americans was codified in the Constitution, maintained throughout the antebellum era, and legislated into the twentieth century: far from being incidental, it enabled the development of the United States. U.S. history as we currently know it does not account for the centrality of Native Americans.”

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Ward is one of the most gifted writers of her generation; in addition to this indelible work of nonfiction, she’s twice been awarded the National Book Award for fiction and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

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Just three years later, her second, “Salvage the Bones,” was nominated for — and won — the 2011 National Book Award for fiction.

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