National Book Awards - 2007
FICTION
Winner:
Denis Johnson , Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company)
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- “Contenders” Fiction Finalists Exhibition Page >Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Fiction judges:
Francine Prose (chair), Andrew Sean Greer, Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.
NONFICTION
Winner:
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
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Finalist:
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Interview >Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
(Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA)
- Interview >Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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- Book That Changed My Life Essay >Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Nonfiction judges:
David Shields (chair), Deborah Blum, Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Shapiro.
POETRY
Winner:
Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
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> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Hass
Finalist:
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company)
- Interview >David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press)
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- Book That Changed My Life Essay >Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Interview >Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton & Company)
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Poetry Judges:
Charles Simic (chair), Linda Bierds, David St. John,
Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown & Company) -
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Finalists:
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Interview >M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Interview >Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press)
- Interview >Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company)
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Young People’s Literature Judges:
Elizabeth Partridge (chair), Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and Scott Westerfeld.
