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National Book Award

Given by the National Book Foundation as part of its efforts in promoting reading and raising funds for literacy programs.


The 2000 National Book Awards

Fiction

Winner

In America
by Susan Sontag (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finalists

The Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter (Pantheon Books)

The Diagnosis
by Alan Lightman (Pantheon Books)

Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates (The Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers)

Blue Angel
by Francine Prose (HarperCollins Publishers)


Nonfiction

Winner

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking Penguin)

Finalists

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 To The Present
by Jacques Barzun (HarperCollins Publishers)

The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
by Alice Kaplan (The University of Chicago Press)

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equalty and the American Century, 1919-1963
by David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt & Company)

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
by Patrick Tierney (W.W. Norton & Company)


Poetry

Winner

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
by Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Finalists

Tell Me
by Kim Addonizio (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

A New Selected Poems
by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin Company)

New Addresses
by Kenneth Koch (Alfred A. Knopf)

The Other Lover
by Bruce Smith (The University of Chicago Press)


Young People's Literature

Winner

Homeless Bird
by Gloria Whelan (HarperCollins Children's Books)

Finalists

Forgotten Fire
by Adam Bagdasarian (A Melanie Kroupa Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.)

The Book of the Lion
by Michael Cadnum (Viking, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)

Many Stones
by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)

Hurry Freedom!
by Jerry Stanley (Crown Publishers)

Past Fiction Winners of the National Book Award
1999 Waiting, Ha Jin
1998 Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
1997 Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
1996 Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett
1995 Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth
1994 A Frolic of His Own, William Gaddis
1993 The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
1992 All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
1991 Mating, Norman Rush
1990 Middle Passage, Charles Johnson
1989 Spartina, John Casey
1988 Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
1987 Paco's Story, Larry Heinemann
1986 World's Fair, E. L. Doctorow
1985 White Noise, Don DeLillo
1984 Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories, Ellen Gilchrist
1983 The Color Purple, Alice Walker
1982 Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
1981 Plains Song, Wright Morris
1980 Sophie's Choice, William Styron
1979 Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien
1978 Blood Ties, Mary Lee Settle
1977 The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
1976 J R, William Gaddis
1975 Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone
& The Hair of Harold Roux, Thomas Williams
1974 Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
& A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973 Augustus, John Williams
1972 The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor
1971 Mr. Sammler's Planet, Saul Bellow
1970 Them, Joyce Carol Oates
1969 Steps, Jerzy Kosinski
1968 The Eighth Day, Thornton Wilder
1967 The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
1965 Herzog, Saul Bellow
1964 The Centaur, John Updike
1963 Morte D'Urban, J. F. Powers
1962 The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
1961 The Waters of Kronos, Conrad Richter
1960 Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
1959 The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud
1958 The Wapshot Chronicle, John Cheever
1957 The Field of Vision, Wright Morris
1956 Ten North Frederick, John O'Hara
1955 A Fable, William Faulkner
1954 The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
1953 Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
1952 From Here to Eternity, James Jones
1951 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, William Faulkner
1950 The Man With the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren


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