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Danticat & Washington Win National Book Award

HeadlineMar 07, 2008

And the National Book Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Edwidge Danticat’s book Brother, I’m Dying won for best autobiography. Harriet Washington won the nonfiction prize for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Other winners included Junot Diaz, Tim Jeal and Alex Ross.

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