National Book Award
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Marsh had written of Soviet officers knocking on citizens’ doors in pursuit of information for her young-adult novel about authoritarianism in Stalinist Ukraine, a finalist for the National Book Award.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Morgan, including in a project for which he won the National Book Award, but he feared that more books about “Gilded Age moguls” would make him stale.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
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.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
He’s won a Pulitzer, a National Book Award and a job consulting on a cable news show.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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