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In “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” Imani Perry travels to the American South, where she is from, to examine race, culture, politics and identity. The awards night was one of celebration, but concerns about a wave of book challenges and bans across the country hung over the festivities.
On Wednesday, Gunty and Perry won awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively, while honorees Art Spiegelman and Tracie D. Hall forcefully defended free speech.
The unexpected pleasure of being cited by the National Book Foundation comes months after the jarring saga of his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” being withdrawn by a Tennessee school board.