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Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (AP via Yahoo! News)

Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. The 81-year-old author last won a National Book Award 30 years ago.

Matthiessen wins fiction award for 'Shadow Country' (Pioneer Press)

NEW YORK — Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country," a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.

Matthiessen wins major fiction award (Miami Herald)

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Judges for the National Book Awards honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's Florida classic The Shadow Country, a revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s.

Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (Seattle Times)

Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback Wednesday night, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen's "Shadow Country,"...

Faust’s Civil War Book Falters in Quest for Non-Fiction National Book Award (The Harvard Crimson)

University President Drew G. Faust’s book on the Civil War—one of the five finalists in the non-fiction section of the National Book Awards—was bested for the prize by a book about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s housekeeper Sally Hemings at the award ceremony in New York last night.