Erdrich, Boo, Ferry, Alexander win National Book Awards
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Louise Erdrich's "The Round House" has won the National Book Award for fiction.
Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" won the nonfiction award Wednesday night at a New York ceremony. David Ferry's "Bewilderment" won for poetry, and William Alexander's "Goblin Secrets" won for young people's literature.
Winners each received $10,000.
Honorary prizes were given to novelist Elmore Leonard and New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.