2018 B&N Discover Award Winners Announced

Paul Howarth’s Only Killers and Thieves (Harper) and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy (Scribner) are the winners of Barnes & Noble's 2018 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively. Each writer was awarded a cash prize of $30,000 and a full year of marketing and merchandising support from Barnes & Noble. Second-place winners are Tommy Orange for There There (Knopf) and Shane Bauer for American Prison (Penguin Press). Each writer was awarded a $15,000 cash prize. Third place was awarded to Fatima Farheen Mirza for A Place for Us (SJP for Hogarth/Crown) and Tara Westover for Educated (Random House). Each writer received a $7,500 cash prize. The awards were presented at a private ceremony in New York City earlier this week.

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