NYT on Daniel Cassidy (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 9, 2007 12:36 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>  The NYT article said his book won an American Book Award for
> Nonfiction. I can't find any other confirmation of this fact.  Does
> anyone know it to be true?

Sad but true:

http://www.bookawardsonline.com/american.html

Wikipedia notes that "established in 1978 by the Before Columbus
Foundation ... partially in response to more restrictive or ordered
awards such as the National Book Awards." And they happened to pick a
name that can easily be mistaken for the National Book Award.


--Ben Zimmer

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