National Book Awards - 1990
FICTION
Winner:
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
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Finalists:
Felipe Alfau – Chromos
Elena Castedo – Paradise
Jessica Hagedorn – Dogeaters
Joyce Carol Oates – Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
NONFICTION
Winner:
Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Finalists:
Samuel G. Freedman - Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School
Roger Morris - Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith - Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
T.H. Watkins - Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847-1952