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Article: Carroll's `Requiem' wins National Book Award
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 7, 1996
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Boston author James Carroll's personal memoir of the impact of
the Vietnam War upon his family won the 1996 National Book Award for
non-fiction last night.
Carroll's book, "An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War
that Came Between Us" (published by Boston-based Houghton Mifflin),
was one of two books dealing with that war's impact on the lives of
individual Americans that were among the five finalists for the
non-fiction prize.
After the awards were announced, Carroll, a columnist for the
Globe, said that having two books dealing with Vietnam nominated for
the book award, America's premier literary award, "signaled that
clearly this is the time -- a quarter of a century later -- ...