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Thursday, November 21, 2013

National Book Awards go to James McBride, George Packer

James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird." George Packer won the nonfiction award for "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America."



James McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for “The Good Lord Bird,” a satirical account of pre-Civil War America that features a cross-dressing slave who gets caught up in John Brown’s famous anti-slavery rebellion.



via Books - latimes.com http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/features/books/~3/Ka5KeNTiPG0/la-et-jc-national-books-awards-go-to-james-mcbride-george-packer20131120,0,5559617.story

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