The winners of Barnes & Noble's 2010 Discover Awards are The Disappeared by Kim Echlin (Black Cat) for fiction and The Autobiography of an Execution
by David R. Dow (Twelve) in the nonfiction category. Each writer was
awarded a cash prize of $10,000, and a full year of marketing and
merchandising support from the bookseller.
Second place honors and $5,000 went to Eric Puchner's Model Home (Scribner) for fiction and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Crown) for nonfiction. Nic Pizzolatto's novel Galveston (Scribner) and Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner) took third place honors, each receiving $2,500. The awards were presented yesterday in New York City.
Second place honors and $5,000 went to Eric Puchner's Model Home (Scribner) for fiction and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Crown) for nonfiction. Nic Pizzolatto's novel Galveston (Scribner) and Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner) took third place honors, each receiving $2,500. The awards were presented yesterday in New York City.