2006 National Book Award Winners
Fiction: Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Nonfiction: Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
Poetry: Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem (New Directions)
Young People's Literature: M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)