NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

The National Book Foundation presented the 57th National Book Awards on November 15, 2006. They are:

Young People's Literature: THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION VOL. 1 by M.T. Anderson

Poetry: SPLAY ANTHEM by Nathaniel Mackey

Nonfiction: THE WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL by Timothy Egan

Fiction: THE ECHO MAKER by Richard Powers