National Book Awards - 2000
FICTION
Winner:
Susan Sontag, In America
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Charles Baxter – The Feast of Love
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Alan Lightman – The Diagnosis
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Francine Prose – Blue Angel
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
NONFICTION
Winner:
Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Finalists:
Jacques Barzun – From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Alice Kaplan – The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
Patrick Tierney – Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
POETRY
Winner:
Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
> Read Her Acceptance Speech
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Clifton
Finalists:
Kim Addonizio – Tell Me
Galway Kinnell – A New Selected Poems
Kenneth Koch – New Addresses: Poems
Bruce Smith – The Other Lover
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird
Finalists:
Adam Bagdasarian – Forgotten Fire
Michael Cadnum – The Book of the Lion
Carolyn Coman – Many Stones
Jerry Stanley – Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California