National Book Awards - 1990
FICTION
Winner:
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Felipe Alfau – Chromos
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Elena Castedo – Paradise
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Jessica Hagedorn – Dogeaters
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Joyce Carol Oates – Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
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

