Reginald McKnight selected to judge the 75th National Book Awards for Fiction

The National Book Foundation has announced the 25 judges for this year's awards including Hamilton Holmes Professor Reginald McKnight. 

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. A pantheon of writers such as William Faulkner, Marianne Moore, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Robert Lowell, Walker Percy, John Updike, Katherine Anne Porter, Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon, Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have all won National Book Awards. Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honor the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Professor McKnight will judge fiction entries alongside Jamie Ford, Lauren Groff, Zeyn Joukhadar and Chawa Magaña. 

View the full list of judges here on the National Book Foundation website.