Coates said the book was committed to his acquaintance Prince Jones Jr., who was dead by a Virginia badge administrator in 2000 "because he was mistaken for a criminal," USA Today reports.
The fiction cost went to Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles, a accumulating of stories, and Neal Shusterman's Challenger Deep accustomed the Young People's Literature Award. Shusterman was aggressive to address the book by his son, Brendan, who has anxiety, and said he hopes Challenger Deep will advice "remove the stigma of brainy illness." Robin Coste Lewis was awarded the balladry cost for her aboriginal book, Voyage of the Sable Venus.
Novelist Don DeLillo accustomed the 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, and James Patterson, architect of the Alex Cross series, was accustomed with the 2015 Literation Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
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