National Book Awards - 1999
FICTION
Winner:
Ha Jin, Waiting
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> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Andre Dubus III – House of Sand and Fog
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Kent Haruf – Plainsong
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Patricia Henley – Hummingbird House
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Jean Thompson – Who Do You Love
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
NONFICTION
Winner:
John W. Dower , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Finalists:
John W. Dower – Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Natalie Angier – Woman: An Intimate Geography
Mark Bowden – Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
John Phillip Santos – Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Judith Thurman – Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
POETRY
Winner:
Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems
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> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Ai
Finalists:
Louise Gluck – Vita Nova
Clarence Major – Configurations: New and Selected Poems, 1958-1998
Sherod Santos – The Pilot Star Elegies
C.K. Williams – Repair
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
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Finalists:
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Louise Erdrich – The Birchbark House
Polly Horvath – The Trolls
Walter Dean Myers – Monster