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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

A few weeks after 9/11, Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.


Her account of what she saw in these combat zones and beyond became the basis of Every Man in this Village is a a Liar: An Education in War, a National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist book in 2010.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. 

A foreign-affairs reporter and columnist for The New York Times for nearly 60 years, Flora Lewis witnessed the Communist invasion of Eastern Europe in 1946, as well as the Polish and Hungarian uprisings in 1956. Her report on Poland’s struggles to regain their freedoms while under Soviet control, A Case History of Hope, was a National Book Award Finalist in 1959.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Gloria Emerson...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Gloria Emerson was one of a few female journalists who covered the Vietnam War. Her 1978 National Book Award Winning book Winners & Losers was her passionate account of the effects of America’s prolonged and ultimately failed engagement on Americans, veterans, and the Vietnamese people.

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While Martin Luther King Jr., says in his well-known speech, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Ta-Nehisi Coates, #NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, writes in his powerful memoir #BetweenTheWorldAndMe: 

“My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box.”

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Watch the #NBAwards ceremony  live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18. For more on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and new framework  for understanding Anerica’s history and crisis, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo

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#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son: ““And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’...

#NBAwards Finalist in Nonfiction, #Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following in his personal memoir, Between the World and Me, an open letter to his teenage son:

“And so I had no sense that any just God was on my side. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’ meant nothing to me. The meek were battered in West Baltimore, stomped out at Walbrook Junction, bashed up on Park Heights, and raped in the showers of the city jail.” 

Watch the #NBAwards ceremony live stream at nationalbook.org, xxpm, November 18.  For more from #BetweenTheWorldAndMe, visit: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2015_nf_tcoates.html#.Vjos8269GSo

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Maxine Hong...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Maxine Hong Kingston won the 1981 National Book Award for Nonfiction for China Men. Weaving together memory, myth, and fact, Kingston vividly portrays the lives of Chinese men and women in America from the 1840s to the Vietnam war and draws into sharp relief the lack of acceptance that prevented these migrants from ever gaining recognition as Americans.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. 

A real-life murder mystery set amidst a city teeming with suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy. Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a remarkable depiction of the people of Annawadi, a slum in the shadow of Mumbai airport. The book earned a National Book Award in 2012 and playwright David Hare’s adaption of The Beautiful Forevers is now on stage at London’s National Theatre.

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For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature. Devra Davis, a...

For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.

Devra Davis, a world-renowned epidemiologist, examined the impact of catastrophic levels of industrial pollution on her hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania and towns and cities across America. Her conclusion that pollution-related toxins contributed to countless deaths and illnesses became the basis of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a 2002 Finalist for the National Book Award.

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WATCH A LIVE WEBCAST OF OUR NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WINNERS AND FINALISTS AT THE MIAMI BOOK FAIR!

FIRST EVENT TONIGHT AT 6PM, ET. STREAMING FROM PBS’s BOOK VIEW NOW.

FICTION:

Rabih Alameddine  

Phil Klay  

Emily St. John Mandel 

NONFICTION:


Evan Osnos  
Anand Gopal 
Roz Chast

POETRY:
Maureen N. McLane  
Fanny Howe 

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Eliot Schrefer  
Deborah Wiles 

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This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20. 

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