Powers Wins, Baby!

No, not Austin – Richard Powers. His novel, The Echo Maker, won National Book Award for fiction this week in New York City. The novel tells the story of a young man who has an auto accident and suffers a rare brain disorder.

Timothy Egan won for non-fiction with his book,The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.

See The New York Times for more, including a list of all winners and finalists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/books/16books.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin