the book was originally supposed to be a short book about the loire against the west and the democracies the natue of the countries turn away from democracy and about opportunity that is not taken and things that depend happen, so it is complicated to write. thank you for reading it and honoring it. thank you. [applause] [cheering] to present the book award for fiction is jacqueline nixon. "the new york times"au best-selling author of the finalist for the national book award naacp image award, "los angeles times" t book prize anda number one in the pic. the 2014 best seller brown girl dreaming won an award in people's literature. [applause] [cheering] and was the recipient of the current of scott king award, the naacp image award and the honors award. [applause] named young people's poet laureate 2015 to 2017 by the poetry foundation. she's the author of more than two dozen and a two-time award winner it gives me great pleasure to introduce my frien friends. [applause] i love my committee so much. this year we read almost 300 books and we were traveling so we carried to europe, tuscany,

called purple, machine that diplomats were using, communicating with tokyo about the intentions of hit loire-- hitler and one woman had been not billion able to fine work as a university math professor and freedman was willing to hire women. he understood, and the federal government in general was a reasonably good equal opportunity -- relatively good equal opportunity employer. but he hide this woman who had not been able to fine a job as a university math professor, they'd been working the code system for two years. she saw the statistical relationship between the mess yap -- she had the key insaying that enabled them to break purple and get a stream of diplomatic communications out of europe in particular, including where the d-day landings would best be made. i'll say with the navy we don't know because there's an interesting document, right before pearl harbor, trying to figure out whether they're get the communication tell intense officers -- intelligence officers they need, and there's a document, new source, women's colleges. but there's no name on the record. that's lost to time. >>