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everyone to the 68 national book award. [applause] like most people here tonight i have always been an avid reader and i come from a family of avid readers and i have birthed at least one avid reader, the jury is still out on the younger ones. as an only child and the daughter of two only children it wasn t uncommon in our house to find everyone in separate corners, each of us buried in a book. huge nerds, you might have called us. it s a privilege to be in his room full of huge nerds. i feel right at home. my mother s father was a rare book dealer in chicago so the nerd gene goes back even farther in my family. one year there was a terrible fire and my grandfather store and the fire itself didn t reach the volume the fire hoses did. water, water, everywhere. his whole inventory ruins and my grandfather felt he had no choice but to close up shop. my grandparents packed up and moved to the ozarks in the heart of missouri where my grandmother was from and they both were effecti
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