National Book Awards - 1997
FICTION
Winner:
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
> Read His Acceptance Speech
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalist:
Don DeLillo – Underworld
Diane Johnson – Le Divorce
Ward Just – Echo House
Cynthia Ozick – The Puttermesser Papers
NONFICTION
Winner:
Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
> Read His Acceptance Speech
Finalist:
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
Winner:
William Meredith, Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
> William Meredith Rememberance
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Meredith
Finalist:
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
Winner:
Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge
> Read Her Acceptance Speech
Finalists:
Brock Cole – The Facts Speak for Themselves
Adele Griffin – Sons of Liberty
Mary Ann McGuigan – Where You Belong
Tor Seidler – Mean Margaret