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Louise gluck is the author of ten books of poems and a collection of essays. Jacqueline woodson accepts the 2014 national book award in young peoples literature for brown girl dreaming. Author of the friend sigrid nunez accepts the 2018 national book award for fiction. The wnba has selected executive director of the national book foundation, lisa lucas, as the 2019 wnba award winner.
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