### [2015-11-18](/feed/2015/11/18/index.md)

##### Ta-Nehisi Coates
# Ta-Nehisi Coates wins the National Book Award’s top prize for nonfiction for his bestselling depiction of America’s race problem, "Between the World and Me". Adam Johnson’s "Fortune Smiles" took home the National Book Award for fiction. 




### Sources:

1. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/19/ta-nehisi-coates-wins-national-book-award-for-nonfiction)

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