National Book Award
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In 2010, she was a finalist for the National Book Award for “So Much for That,” an empathetic account of a married couple facing terminal illness within a ruthless American health-care system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026
Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hardscrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in ‘Bread of Angels.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
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
Justin Torres is the author of “We the Animals” and “Blackouts,” which won the National Book Award.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
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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