National Book Award Winner 2025 – In particular, the assistant professor honed in on theater as a way to resist calls for what Fleming describes as โ€œBlack patienceโ€ or for Black people to suffer and wait patiently to receive equal . The authors, editors, illustrators, and translators of 35 books across the literary and non-literary divisions are recognized at the awards ceremony .

National Book Award Winner 2025 WNDB Announces the 2025 Walter Awards Winners & Honorees: Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 National Book Award Winner for ‘Victory Over Japan,’ Dies at 88 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) โ€” Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on . JACKSON, Miss. (AP) โ€” Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on the complexities of people and places in the American South, has died. She was 88. .