The winners of the 2004 National Book Awards have been announced:
- Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (excerpt)
- Non-fiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (excerpt)
- Young People’s Literature: Godless by Pete Hautman (excerpt)
- Poetry: Door In The Mountain: New And Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine (poems)
