Flannery O'Connor wins 'Best of' National Book Award
Among the winners at last night's National Book Awards ceremony in New York City was the pride of Milledgeville, GA, Flannery O'Connor. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, a posthumous collection that won the NBA for fiction in 1972, was voted by readers as the "Best of National Book Awards for Fiction" in the last 60 years of the event.
Losing to O'Connor in that category were William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, and others.
Colum McCann was awarded the fiction prize for his novel Let the Great World Spin.
A full list of winners, finalists, and judges after the jump.