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National Book Award fiction longlist

A finalist for the National Book Award in fiction: "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson

A finalist for the National Book Award in fiction: “Lila” by Marilynne Robinson  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Kelly Ruth )

By Carolyn Kellogg
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A previous National Book Award winner (Richard Powers), two Pulitzer Prize winners (Jane Smiley and Marilynne Robinson) and a musician with a debut novel (John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats) are on the longlist for the National Book Award for fiction.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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