Free Samples of the National Book Award Winners

By Dianna Dilworth 

The National Book Award winners were revealed last night. Follow the links below to read free samples of all the winners.

The 2011 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature went to Thanhha Lai for Inside Out and Back Again.

The 2011 National Book Award for Poetry went to Nikky Finney.

The 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction went to Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

The 2011 National Book Award for Fiction went to Jesmyn Ward for her book Salvage the Bones.

We covered the event in our live blog. To read speeches and find out the details of what went down at Wall Street tonight, follow this link.