Clegg, Groff among fiction nominees for National Book Awards
Sep 17, 2015, 01:30 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Lauren Groff and Bill Clegg and a story collection by Edith Pearlman are among the 10 nominees on the fiction longlist of the National Book Awards. Adam Johnson's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Orphan Master's Son" was also a finalist, the National Book Foundation announced Thursday. Former National Book Award winner Jonathan Franzen, whose novel "Freedom" was bypassed in 2010, missed out again this year with "Purity." But the nominees do include an author he has befriended and encouraged to write fiction, Nell Zink, cited for "Mislaid." The list will be narrowed to five finalists on Oct. 14. The winner will be announced Nov. 18 in New York City.