National Book Awards - 1993
FICTION
Winner:
E. Annie Proulx , The Shipping News
> Read Her Acceptance Speech
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Amy Bloom – Come to Me
Thom Jones – The Pugilist at Rest
Richard Powers – Operation Wandering Soul
Bob Shacochis – Swimming in the Volcano
NONFICTION
Winner:
Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992
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Finalists:
William Leach – Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
Richard Slotkin – Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
Peter Svenson – Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground
POETRY
Winner:
A . R. Ammons, Garbage
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> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Ammons
Finalists:
Mark Doty – My Alexandria
Margaret Gibson – The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices
Donald Hall – The Museum of Clear Ideas
Lawrence Raab – What We Don't Know About Each Other