Erdrich wins National Book Award for fiction

(AP) Louise Erdrich's The Round House has won the 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.