A month before the winners are to be announced, this year's National Book Awards have become a story of embarrassment.
This year's National Book Awards have become a story of embarrassment a month before the winners are to be announced.
Debut novelist Tea Obreht, poet Adrienne Rich and Malcolm X biographer Manning Marable, who died on the eve of his book's publication, are among this year's finalists for the National Book Awards.
Manning Marable didn't live to hear the praise, or respond to the controversy.
