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Winners all

Christian Century,  March 21, 2006  

WINNERS ALL: During March, omen's history month, the National Book Foundation recommends reading female authors whose books were the first to win awards in the different National Book Awards categories. The first winner in nonfiction was Rachel Carson for The Sea Around Us (1952); in poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems (1952); in fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1966); and in young people's literature: Ursula K.

Le Guin, The Farthest Shore (1973).

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