Seattle writer Timothy Egan wins the nonfiction prize for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. The other winners are: Richard Powers (fiction) for The Echo Maker; Santa Cruz writer Nathaniel Mackey (poetry) for Splay Anthem; and M.T. Anderson (children’s literature) for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party.
More about last night’s awards. Stories: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times.
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