FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Louise Erdrich is more than this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She's a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers might pick up as holiday gifts. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Louise Erdrich is more than this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She's a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers might pick up as holiday gifts. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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This undated photo made available by Little, Brown and Co. shows the cover of "The Casual Vacancy," J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. Ann Patchett, who founded Parnassus Books in Nashville, says she has been recommends J.K. Rowling's first grownup novel, "The Casual Vacancy," as a holiday gift in 2012. (AP Photo/Little, Brown and Company)
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This book cover image released by Hyperion shows "The Rolling Stones 50," by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. In celebration of the band's 50th anniversary, the book offers stark commentary from the Stones to go with tour photos, candids and close-ups. Barnes & Noble is reccomending "The Rolling Stones 50" as a holiday gift for 2012. (AP Photo/Hyperion)
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FILE - This May 16, 2008 file photo shows author Louise Erdrich at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Erdrich, 58, won a National Book Award Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, for her story, "The Round House" the second of a planned trilogy, about an Ojibwe boy and his quest to avenge his mother's rape. Erdrich, who's part Ojibwe, spoke in her tribal tongue and then switched to English as she dedicated her fiction award to "the grace and endurance of native people." (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, file)
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FILE - This 1954 file photo released by Paramount Pictures shows Jimmy Stewart, left, and Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Rear Window." A producing team has won the theatrical stage rights to “Rear Window,” the noir tale that Alfred Hitchcock made into a classic film. Producer Charlie Lyons, director Jay Russell and actor Tim Guinee announced Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, that their two-year hunt for the rights have been successful and they’re hoping to mount the show on Broadway. The film version, starring Stewart and Kelly, tells the story of a wheelchair-bound witness to a possible murder. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, file)
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FILE - In a Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 file photo, Rihanna arrives at the 55th annual Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles. Rihanna's representative said that the singer's show in Baltimore on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 would be postponed. Rihanna canceled her Sunday show in Boston because she was sick. The concert promoter said fans are instructed to retain their tickets pending rescheduling show date information. The next date on Rihanna's tour is Thursday in Philadelphia. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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A slow-moving storm centered far out in the Atlantic Ocean dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of New England, caused coastal flooding that washed away a home in Massachusetts, and turned Friday commutes into slushy crawls. (March 8)
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This undated image released by EleVen By Venus Williams shows professional tennis player and fashion designer Venus Williams wearing a Blue Slice Tank from the EleVen By Venus Williams Summer 2013 collection available April 15 at select retailers, Country Clubs and Boutique tennis shops. (AP Photo/EleVen By Venus Williams)
Claire Vaye Watkins wins $20,000 short story prize
NEW YORK (
AP) — Claire Vaye Watkins has won a $20,000 Story Prize, the first woman to do so since 2007.
Vaye received the ninth annual Story Prize on Wednesday night for "Battleborn," a collection of 10 short stories set in the American West in the past and present.
The other finalists were Junot Diaz for "This is How You Lose Her" and Dan Chaon (shorn) for "Stay Awake." Each will receive $5,000.
The last woman to win the Story Prize was Mary Gordon for "The Stories of Mary Gordon."
The award was established in 2004 to honor short story collections. Previous winners include Edwidge Danticat for "The Dew Breaker," Patrick O'Keeffe for "The Hill Road" and Steven Millhauser for "We Others."
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