Associated Press
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 7:06 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" has captured the fiction prize at the 60th annual National Book Awards.
T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon," was the nonfiction winner; Phillip Hoose's "Claudette Colvin" won for young people's literature and Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy" for poetry.
Winners each received a $10,000 prize.
Honorary medals also were presented to Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers at Wednesday's ceremony.
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