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National Book Awards - 1996
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FICTION
Ship Fever and Other Stories
- Andrea Barrett
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Ron Hansen – Atticus
Elizabeth McCracken – The Giant's House
Steven Millhauser – Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Janet Peery – The River Beyond the World

NONFICTION
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us
- James Carroll
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Melissa Fay Greene – The Temple Bombing
Paul Hendrickson – The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Cary Reich – The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958
Anne Roiphe – Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
POETRY
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, Poems 1991-1995
- Hayden Carruth
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Lucille Clifton – The Terrible Stories
Robert Hass – Sun Under Wood
Alicia Suskin Ostriker – The Crack in Everything
Charles Simic – Walking the Black Cat
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Parrott In the Oven: MiVida
- Victor Martinez
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Carolyn Coman – What Jamie Saw
Nancy Farmer – A Girl Named Disaster
Helen Kim – The Long Season of Rain
Han Nolan – Send Me Down a Miracle


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