Erdrich Wins National Book Award For Fiction

Katherine Boo's ``Behind the Beautiful Forevers'' won the nonfiction award Wednesday night at a New York ceremony. David Ferry's ``Bewilderment'' won for poetry, and William Alexander's ``Goblin Secrets'' won for young people's literature.

Winners each received $10,000.

Honorary prizes were given to novelist Elmore Leonard and New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.