Press Release

AAP Celebrates the 2020 National Book Award Winners & Their Publisher Partners

AAP Celebrates the 2020 National Book Award Winners & Their Publisher Partners

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) offers its congratulations to the 2020 winners of the National Book Awards and their publishers. We also congratulate novelist Walter Mosley for receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and the family and colleagues of the late Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, 2008-2020, who received the Literarian Award.  Thank you, all, for your outstanding service to the American literary community. And thank you to the National Book Awards and National Book Foundation for celebrating extraordinary talent for more than 70 years.