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Patti Smith Wins National Book Award for Nonfiction

The rocker's memoir, Just Kids, about bohemian New York of the sixties and seventies, won the prize. Lord of Misrule, a relatively obscure novel about horse racing in West Virginia, won the prize for fiction. (Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was not nominated.) [NYT]

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