Great Regulars: [Barack] Obama also starred in the acceptance speeches

of the nonfiction winner, Annette Gordon-Reed (for "The Hemingses of Monticello"), and poetry winner Mark Doty ("`Fire to Fire"), who cited the election and his recent marriage to his male partner: "We are on a path to equality for all Americans and nothing is going to turn us back."

from Hillel Italie: Associated Press: Mail Tribune: Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize

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