The National Book Awards
Edward P. Jones, who ended a 10-year absence from publishing with his novel “The Known World” (Amistad/HarperCollins), won the fiction prize of the National Book Critics Circle on Thursday night in a ceremony at New School University in Greenwich Village.
These other awards were made:
¶Paul Hendrickson, “Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy” (Knopf), for general nonfiction.
¶William Taubman, “Khrushchev: The Man and His Era” (W. W. Norton), for biography-autobiography.
¶Rebecca Solnit, “River of Shadows” (Viking), a study of high-speed photography and other 19th-century technology, for criticism.
¶Susan Stewart, “Columbarium” (University of Chicago Press), for poetry.
Studs Terkel, 91, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, oral historian and self-described champion of the uncelebrated, received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Here is the story. I had started the Jones book and it bored me, I will try again. The Taubman book on Khruschchev is first-rate.