http://www.nationalbook.org
MISSION
The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.
VALUES
The National Book Foundation is guided by the following core beliefs:
Books are essential to a thriving cultural landscape
Books and literature provide a depth of engagement that helps to protect, stimulate, and promote discourse in American society
Books and literature are for everyone, no matter where the reader is situated geographically, economically, racially, or otherwise
[We] chose a body of literature that critically and anecdotally explores our nation’s prisons and the crisis of mass incarceration.
—LITERATURE FOR JUSTICE COMMITTEE
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