James McBride has won the prestigious National Book Foundation National Book Award for fiction with his novel The Good Lord Bird which is set during John Brown’s abolitionist campaign, a pivotal period of American history. The citation says : McBride retells the story in a voice as comic and original as…
Women writers sweep National Book Foundation’s list of best writers under 35
Women have scooped the pool in the American National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 list of top writers aged under 35. The winners are NoViolet Bulawayo for the Booker short-listed We Need New Names, Amanda Coplin for The Orchardist, Merritt Tierce for Love Me Back, Molly Antopol for The UnAmericans and Daisy…