National Book Award Nominees Announced
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Finalists for the 2007 National Book Awards were announced yesterday by the National Book Foundation.
Fiction: Mischa Berlinski, “Fieldwork”; Lydia Davis, “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”; Joshua Ferris, “Then We Came to the End”; Denis Johnson, “Tree of Smoke”; Jim Shepard, “Like You’d Understand, Anyway.”
Nonfiction: Edwidge Danticat, “Brother, I’m Dying”; Christopher Hitchens, “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”; Woody Holton, “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution”; Arnold Rampersad, “Ralph Ellison: A Biography”; Tim Weiner, “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.”
Poetry: Linda Gregerson, “Magnetic North”; Robert Hass, “Time andMaterials:Poems1997–2005”; David Kirby, “The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems”; Stanley Plumly, “Old Heart”; Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006.”
Young People’s Literature:
Sherman Alexie, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”; Kathleen Duey, “Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One”; M. Sindy Felin, “Touching Snow”; Brian Selznick, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”; Sara Zarr, “Story of a Girl.”
Winners will be announced at the 58th National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony in New York City on November 14.
