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1997

winners

Discover honored books by category:

Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Young People's Literature

WINNER

Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

FINALISTS

Underworld

Don DeLillo

Le Divorce

Diane Johnson

Echo House

Ward Just

The Puttermesser Papers

Cynthia Ozick

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