National Book Awards - 2004
FICTION
Winner:
Lily Tuck, The News from Paraguay
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum – Madeleine is Sleeping
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Christine Schutt – Florida
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Joan Silber – Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Kate Walbert – Our Kind
- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >
NONFICTION
Winner:
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Finalists:
David Hackett Fischer – Washington’s Crossing
Jennifer Gonnerman – Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Stephen Greenblatt – Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
The 9/11 Commission – The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States- Authorized Edition
POETRY
Winner:
Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
> Read Her Acceptance Speech
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Valentine
Finalists:
William Heyen – Shoah Train
Donald Justice – Collected Poems
Carl Phillips – The Rest of Love
Cole Swensen – Goest
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Pete Hautman, Godless
Finalists:
Deb Caletti – Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Laban Carrick Hill – Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Shelia P. Moses – The Legend of Buddy Bush
Julie Anne Peters – Luna: A Novel