NEW YORK (AP) — A novel set in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York City and a biography of one of the city's most famous sons are among this year's National Book Award winners.
Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in New York, is the winner for fiction. T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon," is the nonfiction winner.
Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers also were awarded honorary medals at Wednesday night's ceremony at Manhattan's Cipriani Wall Street restaurant.
Phillip Hoose's "Claudette Colvin" is this year's winner for young people's literature. Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy" takes this year's prize for poetry.
Each of the winners gets $10,000.
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