Gordon-Reed, Matthiessen win book prizes

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe. Annette Gordon-Reed of New York Wednesday night won the 2008 National Book Award for nonfiction, for a history of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson. The author of "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" is the first African-American woman to win the award for nonfiction.

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