National Book Award Nominees
From a record 1,074 entries, 20 titles were announced today as finalists for the National Book Awards. The winners in each of the four categories will receive $10,000 at a black-tie ceremony hosted by Garrison Keillor in New York on Nov. 17. To be eligible, a book must have been published in the United States between Dec. 1, 2003 and Nov. 30, 2004 and must have been written by a US citizen. The finalists were selected by four panels of writers appointed by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting American literature.
The Monitor will review all the finalists over the next four weeks.
Fiction
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum,
Madeleine is Sleeping (Harcourt)
Christine Schutt,
Florida (TriQuarterly)
Joan Silber,
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (W.W. Norton)
Lily Tuck,
The News from Paraguay (HarperCollins)
Kate Walbert,
Our Kind: A Novel in Stories (Scribner)
Nonfiction
Kevin Boyle,
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (Henry Holt)
David Fischer,
Washington's Crossing (Oxford University Press)
Jennifer Gonnerman,
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Stephen Greenblatt,
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (W.W. Norton)
The 9/11 Commission,
The 9/11 Commission Report (W.W. Norton)
Poetry
William Heyen,
Shoah Train (Etruscan)
Donald Justice,
Collected Poems (Knopf)
Carl Phillips,
The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Cole Swensen,
Goest (Alice James Books)
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan University Press)
Young People's Literature
Deb Caletti,
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart (Simon & Schuster)
Pete Hautman,
Godless (Simon & Schuster)
Laban Carrick Hill,
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (Little, Brown)
Shelia Moses,
The Legend of Buddy Bush (Simon & Schuster)
Julie Anne Peters,
Luna (Little, Brown)
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