Congratulations to Stanford’s Arnold Rampersand, whose Ralph Ellison, A Biography was just nominated for the National Book Award.

In the Young People’s category, Sara Zarr, whose bio says she was born in San Francisco and grew up in Pacifica, was nominated for Story of a Girl.

Also nominated is Berkeley’s Robert Haas for his poetry collection Time and Materials and Linda Gregerson, a Stanford PhD. who now teaches at the Univ. of Michigan, for her poetry collection Magnetic North.

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