National Book Awards - 2001
FICTION
Winner:
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Dan Chaon – Among the Missing
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Jennifer Egan – Look at Me
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Louise Erdrich – The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Susan Straight – Highwire Moon
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Fiction Judges:
Colin Harrison (Panel Chair), Bill Henderson, Angela Davis-Gardner, Mary Morris Susan, Richards Shreve
NONFICTION
Winner:
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Finalists:
Marie Arana – American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Nina Bernstein – The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
David James Duncan – My Story as Told by Water
Jan T. Gross – Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Nonfiction Judges:
Terry Tempest Williams (Panel Chair), Alex Kotlowitz, Richard Rodriguez, Christine Stansell
POETRY
Winner:
Alan Dugan, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Dugan
Finalists:
Agha Shahid Ali – Rooms are Never Finished
Wanda Coleman – Mercurochrome
Cornelius Eady – Brutal Imagination
Gail Mazur – They Can't Take That Away from Me
Poetry Judges:
Stanley Plumly (Panel Chair), Rafael Campo, Toi Derricotte, Marie Howe, Tom Sleigh
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer
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Finalists:
Kate DiCamillo – The Tiger Rising
Phillip Hoose – We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History
An Na – A Step from Heaven
Marilyn Nelson – Carver: A Life in Poems
Young People's Literature Judges:
Beth Kephart (Panel Chair), Kay Cassell, Ellen Howard, Lisa Clayton Robinson, Jane Resh Thomas