2014 National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation presented the 65th annual National Book Awards in New York City, including the announcements of the winners for… read more

The National Book Foundation presented the 65th annual National Book Awards in New York City, including the announcements of the winners for Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature.

The 2014 Non-Fiction finalists were:

Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence close

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