Sacramento Authors Win Big At 2005 National Book Awards
Joan Didion, who was raised in Sacramento, won the National Book non-fiction award for "The Year of Magical Thinking", which chronicles the year after her husband's death. The fiction prize went to William T. Vollman, a long-time Sacramento resident, for his World War II novel "Europe Central".
Planners for Authors on the Move, the major fundraiser for the Sacramento Public Library, scheduled for March 18, 2006, food for thought!
Both books can be purchased here:
Listen to readings by the finalists.
Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive
