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Gordon-Reed and Matthiessen Win National Book Award

HeadlineNov 20, 2008

And this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Annette Gordon-Reed won the nonfiction award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, a biography of three generations of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson. Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for Shadow Country.

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