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National Book Awards - 1997
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FICTION
Cold Mountain
- Charles Frazier
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Don DeLillo – Underworld
Diane Johnson – Le Divorce
Ward Just – Echo House
Cynthia Ozick – The Puttermesser Papers

NONFICTION
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
- Joseph J. Ellis
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David I. Kertzer – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Jamaica Kincaid – My Brother
Thomas Lynch – The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Sam Tanenhaus – Whittaker Chambers

POETRY
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
- William Meredith
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John Balaban – Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems
Frank Bidart – Desire
Sarah Lindsay – Primate Behavior
Marilyn Nelson – The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Dancing on the Edge
- Han Nolan
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Brock Cole – The Facts Speak for Themselves
Adele Griffin – Sons of Liberty
Mary Ann McGuigan – Where You Belong
Tor Seidler – Mean Margaret



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