The winners of this year's National Book Awards, announced last night in New York City (the show airs this weekend on Book TV):
- Fiction: Richard Powers for The Echo Maker (FSG)
- Nonfiction: Timothy Egan for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
- Young People's Literature: M.T. Anderson for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (Candlewick)
- Poetry: Nathaniel Mackey for Splay Anthem (New Directions)