SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Center for the Book has announced winners of the 2010 Washington State Book Awards for books published by Washington authors in 2009.
The authors will be honored in a celebration Oct. 8 at the Seattle Public Library, Central Library.
The winners include:
Fiction: “Border Songs” by Jim Lynch, Olympia
Poetry: “Inseminating the Elephant” by Lucia Perillo, Olympia
History/Biography: “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America” by Timothy Egan, Seattle
General Nonfiction: “Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science” by Carol Yoon, Bellingham
