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National Book Awards - 2002
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FICTION
Three Junes
- Julia Glass
Read Her Acceptance Speech
Read Bob Shacochis' speech announcing Julia Glass as the winner.
Mark Costello – Big If
Adam Haslett – You Are Not a Stranger Here
Martha McPhee – Gorgeous Lies
Brad Watson – The Heaven of Mercury

NONFICTION
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Robert A. Caro
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Read Christopher Merrill's speech announcing Robert Caro as the winner.
Devra Davis – When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
Atul Gawande – Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Elizabeth Gilbert – The Last American Man
Steve Olson – Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our Genes

POETRY
In the Next Galaxy
- Ruth Stone
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Read Dave Smith's speech announcing Ruth Stone as the winner.
Harryette Mullen – Sleeping with the Dictionary
Sharon Olds – The Unswept Room
Alberto Rios – The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Ellen Bryant Voigt – Shadow of Heaven

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
The House of the Scorpion
- Nancy Farmer
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Read Han Nolan's speech announcing Nancy Farmer as the winner.
M.T. Anderson – Feed
Naomi Shihab Nye – 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Elizabeth Partridge – This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Jacqueline Woodson – Hush


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