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These Are The 2016 National Book Award Finalists

October 6, 2016 • Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson and Rita Dove are just three of the authors on the shortlists for the National Book Awards. The 20 books still in contention for the prizes were unveiled Thursday.

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Colson Whitehead, John Lewis, Rita Dove Among National Book Award Nominees

September 15, 2016 • And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees.

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Thinking Of Leaving Home? Here's A Bit Of Advice From Young Adult Authors

September 10, 2016 • Starting that next chapter can be difficult in any young person's life. And YA writers know it well. Sandra Cisneros, Jacqueline Woodson, Tamora Pierce and Jason Reynolds offer some words of wisdom.

Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke

Jacqueline Woodson, pictured here at the National Book Awards ceremony last month, won the young people's literature prize for her memoir in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming. Robin Platzer/Twin Images/AP hide caption

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Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke

December 1, 2014 • "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award-winning Woodson, responding to racially charged comments delivered after she won her prize.