Get ready, get set, read!
The judges have been announced for this year's National Book Awards. The panels are made up of previous National Book Award winners and finalists, other authors, and other literary types. William Alexander, who lived in Minneapolis when he won the 2012 award for "Goblin Secrets," will help judge Young People's Literature.
Here are the judges:
Fiction panel: James English (Chair), Karen Joy Fowler, T. Geronimo Johnson, Julie Otsuka, Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction panel: Cynthia Barnett, Masha Gessen, Greg Grandin, Melissa Harris-Perry (Chair), Ronald C. Rosbottom
Poetry panel: Mark Bibbins, Jericho Brown, Katie Ford, Joy Harjo (Chair), Tree Swenson
Young People's Literature panel: William Alexander, Valerie Lewis, Ellen Oh, Katherine Paterson (Chair), Laura Ruby
The judges will choose a long list of 10 titles in each category. The winners will be announced Nov. 16 in New York City.
