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Ta-Nehisi Coates marked another professional triumph Wednesday night by winning the National Book Award for nonfiction for “Between the World and Me," his timely, bestselling meditation on race in America. 
  
 In an acceptance speech that prompted a standing ovation from the black tie-clad crowd at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, Coates dedicated the award to Prince Jones, a Howard University classmate who was killed while unarmed by a police officer and who figures prominently in the memoir, written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son. 
  
 As Coates explained, the officer responsible for Jones’ death was never disciplined for the killing. 
  
 “I’m a black man in America. I can’t punish that officer. ‘Between the World and Me’ comes out of that place,” said Coates, a national correspondent for the Atlantic who was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in September. 
  
 “We are in this moment where folks are recording everything on their phones. Every day you turn on the TV and you see some sort of violence being directed at black people,” Coates said, alluding to controversial incidents caught on tape, including the death of Eric Garner, the arrest of Sandra Bland and the killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed man shot and killed in South Carolina this year. 
  
 “I have waited 15 years for this moment, because when Prince Jones died, there were no cameras, there was nobody looking.” 
  
 While Coates’ victory was hardly a surprise, there was at least one major upset at the event, American publishing's biggest-ticket literary award. 
  
 In a completely surprising outcome, Adam Johnson claimed the award for fiction with his short story collection, "Fortune Smiles.” Johnson, who beat out such favorites as Hanya Yanagihara for “A Little Life” and Lauren Groff for “Fates and Furies,” appeared as stunned as anyone by the victory. 
  
 “I told my wife and my kids, ‘Don’t come across America because this is not going to happen,’” said Johnson, who teaches at Stanford. 
  
 Neal Shusterman won the award for young people’s literature for “Challenger Deep,” a 
  
 novel about a teen struggling with mental illness that was inspired by his son’s experiences. 
  
 “We have to open up and talk about [mental illness] more so we can understand it better, and I hope this book helps to do that,” he said, inviting his son to join him onstage. 
  
 Robin Coste Lewis was named the winner of the poetry prize for her debut collection, “Voyage of the Sable Venus,” a reflection on the black female form throughout history. 
  
 Novelist Don DeLillo was awarded the medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. In presenting the award to DeLillo, author Jennifer Egan praised his masterful dialogue, “epic” sensibility and the “chutzpah in the sheer range of his books.” She also touched upon a recurring topic throughout the night: the future of books and literature in the digital era. 
  
 Following a standing ovation, the author of “White Noise,” “Underworld” and “Falling Man” took to the stage and, in brief remarks, spoke of the “the power of memory that a book carries with it.” 
  
 Calling himself a “grateful reader,” DeLillo paid homage to recently deceased writers including Peter Matthiessen and E.L. Doctorow -- who won the same prize in 2013 -- as well as earlier heroes Dylan Thomas and Carson McCullers. 
  
 James Patterson, winner of the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, joked that as the writer of bestselling mass-market fiction in a room full of highbrow types, he was “the Big Mac at Cipriani.” 
  
 The name of the prize also sparked an ongoing joke at the hands of host humorist Andy Borowitz about the meaning of the word "literarian," which Harold Augenbraum, the outgoing executive director of the National Book Foundation, helpfully clarified. 
  
 “A literarian is a person who dedicates his or her life to the study or enjoyment of literature,” he said -- to a room full of literarians. ||||| Photo 
  
 Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night for “Between the World and Me,” a visceral, blunt exploration of his experience of being a black man in America, which was published this summer in the middle of a national dialogue about race relations and inequality. 
  
 “Every day you turn on the TV and see some kind of violence being directed at black people,” Mr. Coates said in an emotional acceptance speech. “Over and over and over again. And it keeps happening.” 
  
 The fiction award went to Adam Johnson for “Fortune Smiles,” a collection of surreal and comic short stories that deal with natural disasters, technology and politics, and take place in settings ranging from Palo Alto, Calif., and New Orleans to North Korea. The judges called Mr. Johnson “one of the most talented writers of his generation” and called his stories by turns “surprising, wondrous, comic and devastating.” Mr. Johnson won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel “The Orphan Master’s Son.” 
  
 “Between the World and Me,” which was published by Spiegel & Grau, was one of the most celebrated and widely discussed books of the year, and won comparisons to the work of James Baldwin. 
  
 Mr. Coates, a correspondent for The Atlantic, wrote the book in the form of a letter to his son. He dedicated the award to his college friend, Prince Jones, who was shot to death by a police officer who mistook him for a criminal. “I’m a black man in America. I can’t punish that officer; ‘Between the World and Me’ comes out of that place,” Mr. Coates said. “I can’t secure the safety of my son. I just don’t have that power. But what I do have the power to do is say, ‘You won’t enroll me in this lie. You won’t make me part of it.’ “ 
  
 The National Book Award, which was established in 1950, has gone to some of the country’s most celebrated authors, including William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Flannery O’Connor. Presented by the National Book Foundation, the award was open to American authors who published books from Dec. 1, 2014, to Nov. 30, 2015. The prizes were presented at a black-tie dinner in Manhattan at Cipriani Wall Street, with more than 700 guests. 
  
 Along with “Fortune Smiles,” finalists in the fiction category included Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life,” which follows four ambitious young college friends in New York as one of them grapples with his dark past; Lauren Groff’s novel “Fates and Furies,” which tells the story of a marriage from the husband and wife’s perspectives, revealing the secrets they kept; Karen E. Bender’s short-story collection “Refund;” and Angela Flournoy’s debut novel, “The Turner House,” about multiple generations of a Detroit family. 
  
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 The award for Young People’s Literature was given to Neal Shusterman’s “Challenger Deep,” a novel about a mentally ill teenager who has dark fantasies about traveling to the deepest point on earth, which was inspired by Mr. Shusterman’s son. 
  
 The poet Robin Coste Lewis won for her collection, “Voyage of the Sable Venus,” a meditation on cultural and artistic depictions of the black female figure that juxtaposes autobiographical verses with reflections on cultural stereotypes and art. 
  
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 The best-selling novelist James Patterson received the Literarian Award, for outstanding service to the literary community, in recognition of his philanthropic efforts to support independent bookstores and promote literacy in public schools. Mr. Patterson, who has sold more than 300 million copies of his books, has donated $2.75 million to school libraries and bookstores. 
  
 In his acceptance speech, Mr. Patterson joked about his outsider status as a commercial author in elite literary company, calling himself the “Big Mac at Cipriani.” He issued a call for publishers to “innovate more.” 
  
 “Let’s all be literarians, whatever the hell that means,” he said. “Let’s try to make sure there’s another generation of readers.” 
  
 The novelist Don DeLillo, whose eerily prescient works explore technology, surveillance and terrorism, was given the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for his “diverse body of work that examines the mores of contemporary modern American culture.” 
  
 Mr. DeLillo, who won a National Book Award for his novel “White Noise” in 1985, is famously reticent and rarely grants interviews or discusses his work. He will release a new novel, “Zero K,” about a billionaire whose wife has a terminal illness, next May. 
  
 He was typically understated in his acceptance speech, and at his request, his remarks were not streamed on videocast. Rather than talking about his work or his evolution as a writer, he spoke reverently about a room where he keeps his collection of old paperbacks, and what those books mean to him. 
  
 “When I visit the room, I’m not the writer,” he said. “That’s the guy who lives down the hall. Here I’m not the writer at all, I’m the grateful reader.” ||||| NEW YORK (AP) — Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me," a brief, unflinching address to his teenage son on race and police violence that is well on its way to a lasting place in American letters, won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night. The fiction prize was given to Adam Johnson's "Fortune Smiles," an eclectic and edgy story collection set everywhere from the former East Germany to a Louisiana community reeling from Hurricane Katrina. 
  
 Highly praised and intensely debated, on best-seller lists for months, "Between the World and Me" is among the most uncompromising works in recent memory to gain such a wide following and Coates' acceptance speech — as blunt as any given at a book awards ceremony — was a stirring expression of gratitude and frustration. He dedicated his honor to his friend Prince Jones, who was killed by 15 years ago when police mistook him for a criminal and whose tragedy is at the core of "Between the World and Me." 
  
 "'Between the World and Me' comes out of that place," said Coates, adding that similar shootings keep happening "over and over and over again" and that the officer who shot Jones was never punished. 
  
 "I'm a black man in America. I can't punish that officer: 'Between the World and Me' comes out of that place," he said. "What I do have the power to say is that you won't enroll me in this lie. You won't make me a part of it." 
  
 Another winning book Wednesday also involved the author's teenage son. The young people's literature prize went to Neal Shusterman's "Challenger Deep," inspired by the struggles with mental illness endured by his then-adolescent boy, whom Shusterman brought to the stage. Robin Coste Lewis' debut collection "Voyage of the Sable Venus" was cited for poetry. 
  
 All winners received $10,000. Johnson, Coates and Lewis were published by Penguin Random House. 
  
 Earlier during the ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street, Don DeLillo received a lifetime achievement medal for his contributions to literature. James Patterson was honored for his advocacy of reading and literacy. 
  
 Johnson's award follows the Pulitzer Prize he received for his previous work, "The Orphan Master's Son." Both were edited by David Ebershoff, a longtime Random House executive who is leaving for a full-time writing career. Moviegoers may know him for the upcoming adaptation of his novel "The Danish Girl." 
  
 Fiction judges had highlighted five works with contemporary settings, touching upon everything from race and class in Angela Flournoy's Detroit-based "The Turner House" to the chronicle of marriage in Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies" to the economy in Karen E. Bender's story collection "Refund." Flournoy, in an email sent earlier in the week, observed that fiction "grants us access to lives and experiences that are different from our own, but it also shows the ways in which human experience has commonalities." 
  
 "Fiction makes it clear that while the particulars of our lives vary, we're all dealing with the same sorts of emotions, the same desires to be loved and seen and heard," she wrote. 
  
 Some of the night's speakers are known for their takes on current events, but their tone was more personal and the jokes mostly about publishing. 
  
 Host Andy Borowitz, who routinely turns out political satires for The New Yorker, had nothing to say about the presidential campaigns but instead mocked the presumed obscurity of the awards' sponsor, the National Book Foundation, and the presumed self-absorption of the literary community. 
  
 "If you're not in the mood to hear people talking about themselves, you're in the wrong place," he said. 
  
 DeLillo's speech came just days after the attacks in Paris, the kind of horror he had imagined in "Mao II" and so much of his work. But DeLillo, who turns 79 on Friday, instead talked about books and old friends, mourning such peers as E.L. Doctorow and James Salter, ruminating about the shelves down the hall from where he writes and listing not just the books but their publishers and list prices. (50 cents for Dostoevsky's "The House of the Dead," a Dell paperback from 1959.) 
  
 "Here are the shelves with the old paperbacks, books still in their native skin," he said. "And when I visit the room I'm not the writer who has just been snaking his way through some sentences on a sheet of paper, curled into an old typewriter. That's the guy who lives down the hall. Here, I'm not the writer at all. I'm the grateful reader." |||||
Ta-Nehisi Coates can now add a National Book Award to his growing list of accomplishments: The journalist, who was recently given a MacArthur genius grant, has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Between the World and Me, his look at race and policing in America, written as a letter to his teenage son. Coates dedicated the award Wednesday to his friend Prince Jones, who was killed by a police officer who confused him with a criminal 15 years ago; the officer was never punished. "Between the World and Me comes out of that place," Coates said, per the Los Angeles Times. "Every day you turn on the TV and you see some sort of violence being directed at black people." The AP calls the best-seller "among the most uncompromising works in recent memory to gain such a wide following," adding it's "well on its way to a lasting place in American letters." The fiction award went to Adam Johnson for his short-story collection Fortune Smiles. Johnson—who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel The Orphan Master's Son, per the New York Times—was so shocked that he remarked, "I told my wife and my kids, 'Don't come across America because this is not going to happen.'" Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies were also finalists. Neal Shusterman won the award for young people's literature for Challenger Deep, about a teen's struggle with mental illness, while Robin Coste Lewis won the poetry award for Voyage of the Sable Venus. Don DeLillo, 78, won a lifetime achievement medal, and James Patterson—who's donated $2.75 million to school libraries and bookstores—was awarded for his outstanding service to the literary community. All winners took home $10,000.