![]() ![]() After Finney’s remarks, a mini-review of the injustices and triumphs set to verse in her book, he expressed pity for the winners who had to follow. The poetry prize went to Nikki Finney’s Head Off & Split, an impassioned summation of African-American history, while Thanhhai Lai’s Inside Out & Back Again, the story of a Vietnamese family in Alabama, won for young people’s literature.Īctor-author John Lithgow hosted the ceremony, declaring himself humbled before the “great thoughts,” ”quicksilver wit” and “eloquent locution” among the writers, editors, publishers and others gathered. ![]() Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve, a dramatic account of the Renaissance era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction Wednesday night. ![]() STORY: 5 Moving Moments From Gabby Giffords’ Memoir ![]()
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