and the winners are...

I know this is a bit late, but here are the winners of the National Book Awards (announced last week):

Non-Fiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle

Young People's Literature: Godless by Pete Hautman

Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine

Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck