Kim Echlin and David R. Dow have won Barnes & Noble's 2010 Discover Awards, for fiction and nonfiction. Echlin, who is from Canada, won the fiction award for The Disappeared (Black Cat), and Dow, a lawyer, won the nonfiction award for The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve). With the honor, Echlin and Dow each receives a cash prize of $10,000, along with a year of marketing support for their books from B&N.
The other winners include Eric Puchner, who took second place for his novel Model Home (Scribner), and Rebecca Skloot, who took second place honors in the nonfiction category for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown). Winning third place honors are Nic Pizzolatto for his debut novel Galveston (Scribner) and, in the nonfcition category, Siddhartha Mukherjee won for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scriber). The second place winners bring home a cash prize of $5,000 and the third place winners take home $2,500.
