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November 17, 2006

2006 National Book Awards Announced

The National Book Awards are awarded annually for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature. It is sponsored by the National Book Foundation, a consortium of publishing groups.

Fiction
Richard Powers. The Echo Maker
After a near-fatal car accident, 27 year old Mark Schluter's sister reluctantly comes to nurse him back to health. Upon waking from a coma, Mark thinks his sister is an identical imposter.

Nonfiction
Timothy Egan. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

Poetry
Nathaniel Mackey.% Splay Anthem