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NEW YORK — Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” has captured the fiction prize at the 60th annual National Book Awards. The story of a tightrope-walker above the streets of 1970s New York illuminates the lives of those watching from below.
T.J. Stiles’ biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, “The First Tycoon,” was the nonfiction winner; Phillip Hoose’s “Claudette Colvin” won for young people’s literature and Keith Waldrop’s “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy” for poetry.
Winners each received $10,000. Honorary medals went to Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers at Wednesday’s ceremony. The Associated Press
