Dear colleagues: Annette Gordon-Reed's biography of the Hemings family, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, has won the National Book Award for non-fiction. (Peter Matthiessen's novel Shadow Country, one volume of a trilogy, won the award for fiction.) To see news reports on the award, go to http://news.google.com/ and type "National Book Award" in the search box. --Jurretta Heckscher ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html