THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead, which chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South, was honored as the 2016 National Book Award Winner in Fiction. In nonfiction, the finalists included BLOOD IN THE WATER: THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING OF 1971 AND ITS LEGACY by Heather Ann Thompson.
The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best of American literature. For more information please visit: http://nationalbook.org/nba2016.html#.WDo2YxP49Bw
