Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Novelist Colum McCann wins book award (AP)

National Book Award winners for 2009 Phillip Hoose, left, T.J. Stiles, second from left, Colum McCann, second from right, and Keith Waldrop pose for a photograph with their books at the National Book Awards Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009 in New York. Hoose won award for Young Peoples Literature; Stiles the award for Nonfiction; McCann the award for Fiction and Waldrop the award for Poetry. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP - Colum McCanns "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

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