Sherman Alexie has won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!

A bit from his speech (courtesy Ed Rants):

The first book he remembered was Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day Board Book. He was struck by the gorgeous isolation. His first creative writing teacher handed him a Native American volume. He had never read a book by another Native American before. "I knew right then at that moment when I read that line that I wanted to be a writer. And it's been a gorgeous and magic and terrifying twenty years since then. And now I stand before you grateful.�

In case you are wondering, this would be the "why teachers and librarians matter" post for the day.

So gee guys - how does it feel to have interviewed a National Book Award winner?