National Book Award Winners — Adult
The winners in the adult categories are:
- Fiction: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library)
- Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Poetry: Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins)
- New York Times – Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History
- USA Today – Gordon-Reed’s ‘Hemingses’ wins National Book Award
- Wall Street Journal – Matthiessen Wins National Book Award


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