60th National Book Awards Finalists and Winners

In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for the 2009 National Book Awards.

The Finalists are listed below. The Winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 16 at the 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner.

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FICTION
WINNER: Colum McCann, LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN (Random House) - Interview
FINALISTS:
Bonnie Jo Campbell, AMERICAN SALVAGE (Wayne State University Press) - Interview
Daniyal Mueenuddin, IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, LARK AND TERMITE (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Marcel Theroux, FAR NORTH (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview

FICTION JUDGES: Alan Cheuse, Junot Díaz, Jennifer Egan, Charles Johnson, Lydia Millet


NONFICTION
WINNER: T. J. Stiles, THE FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
FINALISTS:
David M. Carroll, FOLLOWING THE WATER: A Hydromancer's Notebook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Interview
Sean B. Carroll, REMARKABLE CREATURES: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Interview
Greg Grandin, FORDLANDIA: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt) - Interview
Adrienne Mayor, THE POISON KING: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press) - Interview

NONFICTION JUDGES: David Blight, Amanda Foreman, Steve Olson, Camille Paglia, John Phillip Santos


POETRY

WINNER: Keith Waldrop, TRANSCENDENTAL STUDIES: A Trilogy (University of California Press) - Interview

FINALISTS:
Rae Armantrout, VERSED (Wesleyan University Press) - Interview
Ann Lauterbach, OR TO BEGIN AGAIN (Penguin Books) - Interview
Carl Phillips, SPEAK LOW(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, OPEN INTERVAL (University of Pittsburgh Press) - Interview

POETRY JUDGES: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, Kevin Young


YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

WINNER: Phillip Hoose, CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview

FINALISTS:
Deborah Heiligman, CHARLES AND EMMA: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt) - Interview
David Small, STITCHES (W. W. Norton & Co.) - Interview
Laini Taylor, LIPS TOUCH: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic) - Interview
Rita Williams-Garcia, JUMPED (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE JUDGES: Kathi Appelt, Coe Booth, Carolyn Coman, Nancy Werlin, Gene Luen Yan


DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS

Gore Vidal

LITERARIAN AWARD

Dave Eggers

The Winner in each of the four categories – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and People's Literature – will be announced at the 60th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 18.