STATS
- In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for
the 2009 National Book Awards.
The total number of
books by genre:
- Fiction, 236
- Nonfiction, 481
- Poetry, 161
- Young People's Lit., 251
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FICTION |
Winner:
Colum
McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random
House) - Interview
Finalists:
Bonnie
Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne
State University Press) - Interview
Daniyal
Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
(W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne
Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred
A. Knopf) - Interview
Marcel
Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and
Giroux) - Interview
FICTION JUDGES: Alan
Cheuse, Junot
Díaz, Jennifer
Egan,
Charles Johnson, Lydia
Millet |
NONFICTION |
Winner:
T.
J. Stiles,
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf) -
Interview
Finalists:
David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's
Notebook
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Interview
Sean
B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures
in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt) - Interview
Greg
Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of
Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan
Books/Henry Holt) - Interview
Adrienne
Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend
of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton
University Press) - Interview
NONFICTION JUDGES: David
Blight, Amanda
Foreman, Steve
Olson,
Camille Paglia,
John Phillip Santos
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YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE |
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Winner:
Phillip
Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview
Finalists:
Deborah
Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’
Leap of Faith
(Henry Holt) - Interview
David
Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)
- Interview
Laini
Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur
A. Levine Books/Scholastic) - Interview
Rita
Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE JUDGES:
Kathi
Appelt, Coe
Booth,
Carolyn Coman,
Nancy Werlin,
Gene Luen Yang
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DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION
TO AMERICAN LETTERS
Gore
Vidal
LITERARIAN AWARD
Dave
Eggers
The Winner in each of the four categories –
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and People's Literature
– will be announced at the 60th National Book
Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall
Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 18.
2009 National Book Awards
Dinner Master of Ceremonies
Andy Borowitz
 Andy
Borowitz is an author, comedian, satirist, and film
actor. His work appears in The New Yorker, The Huffington
Post and at his satirical website, BorowitzReport.com.
He has received numerous awards for his writing, including
the first-ever National Press Club Award for humor in
2004. He has written six humor books and is a two-time
finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He
won the NAACP Image Award for creating the hit television
series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, starring
Will Smith. He produced the Oscar-nominated film Pleasantville
and wrote the upcoming Paramount motion picture Dinner
for Schmucks, starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
He has made countless television and film appearances,
including the Woody Allen film Melinda and Melinda.
He is writing his first novel.
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