National Book Awards - 1991
FICTION
Winner:
Norman Rush, Mating
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Finalists:
Louis Begley – Wartime Lies
Stephen Dixon – Frog
Stanley Elkin – The MacGuffin
Sandra Scofield – Beyond Deserving
NONFICTION
Winner:
Orlando Patterson, Freedom
Finalists:
E.J. Dionne, Jr. – Why Americans Hate Politics
Melissa Fay Greene – Praying for Sheetrock
R.W.B. Lewis – The Jameses: A Family Narrative
Diane Wood Middlebrook – Anne Sexton: A Biography
POETRY
Winner:
Philip Levine, What Work Is
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Finalists:
Andrew Hudgins – The Never-Ending
Linda McCarriston – Eva-Mary
Adrienne Rich – An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991
Marilyn Nelson Waniek – The Homeplace