In Case You Missed It...The 2011 National Book Award Winners

The 2011 National Book Award Winners

Young People's Literature  Thanhha Lai Inside Out & Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)   Poetry Nikky Finney  Head Off & Split  (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)      Nonfiction Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)  Fiction Jesmyn Ward  Salvage the Bones  (Bloomsbury USA)  Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters John Ashbery Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community  Mitchell Kaplan