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A Celebration of the 60th National Book Awards

On July 7th, to celebrate the 60th National Book Awards the Foundation and its partners announced a campaign to select the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. This year for the first time, the public will choose the best of the Fiction winners from the 59 years of the National Book Awards. 74 of the 77 books are still in-print and available. These are by well known authors, many of whom are still read today. Click here for more about the 60th anniversary celebration.

A Book a Day for 77 Days

The National Book Foundation is currently presenting a book-a-day blog on the Fiction winners from 1950 to 2008. The blog began July 7th and will run to September 21st, starting with Nelson Algren’s The Man With the Golden Arm, ending with Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country, and including works by Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Alice McDermott. Visit every day; then, on September 21st you will have a chance to select The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction and win two tickets to the 2009 National Book Awards, the first time in its history the Awards will open to a public vote. Read on...

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