Southern Californian authors could be found across all categories as the National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2014 National Book Awards Thursday.
The six award contenders are Culver City-native Molly Antopol (“The UnAmericans”) for Fiction; UC Riverside professor Fred Moten (“The Feel Trio”) and Pomona College professor Claudia Rankine (“Citizen: An American Lyric”) for Poetry; Los Angeles-native John Lahr (“Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh”) for Nonfiction; and John Corey Whaley (“Noggin”) and Andrew Smith (“100 Sideways Miles”) — who currently live in Southern California — for Young People’s Literature
The finalists will be revealed Oct. 15 and winners announced in a ceremony Nov. 19.
— Staff