The National Book Awards

(The National Book Foundation, USA)

 

Since 1950

 

The Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature (since 1996).

URL : http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html

 

Winners of the National Book Awards (1993-2002)

 

2002

FICTION:

Three Junes by Julia Glass. Pantheon Books; Good Morning America edition, 2002.

ISBN: 0375422412

NONFICTION:

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro. Knopf, 2002.

ISBN: 0394528360

POETRY:

In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press, 2002.

ISBN: 1556591780

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. Atheneum, 2002.  

ISBN: 0689852223

 

2001

FICTION:

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001.

ISBN: 0374129983

NONFICTION:

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon. Touchstone Books, 2002.

ISBN: 0684854678

POETRY:

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan. Seven Stories Press, 2002.

ISBN: 1583225129

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff. Pocket Books; Reprint edition, 2002.

ISBN: 0689852886

 

2000

FICTION:

In America by Susan Sontag. Jonathan Cape, 2000.

ISBN: 022404091X

NONFICTION:

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick.  New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2000.                                   ISBN: 0670891576

POETRY:

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton. Boa Editions, April 2000.

ISBN: 1880238888

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan. HarperTrophy, 2001.

ISBN: 0064408191

 

1999

FICTION:

Waiting by Ha Jin. New York : Pantheon Books, 1999.

ISBN: 0375406530

NONFICTION:

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower. London : Allen Lane, 1999.

ISBN: 0713993723

POETRY:

Vice: New & Selected Poems by Ai. New York : W.W. Norton, 1999.

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt. New York : Holt, 1999.

ISBN: 0440229049

 

1998

FICTION:

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. Delta, 1999.

ISBN: 038533334X

NONFICTION:

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball. Random House, 1999.

ISBN: 0345431057

POETRY:

This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern. W.W. Norton, 1999.

ISBN: 0393319091

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

Holes by Louis Sachar. Yearling Books; Reprint, 2000.

ISBN: 0440414806

 

1997

FICTION:

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.

ISBN: 0871136791

NONFICTION:

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis. Vintage Books; Reprint edition, 1998.

ISBN: 0679764410

POETRY:

Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems by William Meredith. Triquarterly, 1997.

ISBN: 0810150700

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan. Vintage Books; Reprint edition, 1998.

ISBN: 0679764410

 

1996

FICTION:

Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett.  New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton,1996.

ISBN: 039303853X

NONFICTION:

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll. Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 1997.

ISBN: 039585993X

POETRY:

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth. Copper Canyon Press, 1996.

ISBN: 1556591101

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:

Parrott In the Oven: MiVida by Victor Martinez . HarperTrophy; Reprint edition, 1998.

ISBN: 0064471861

 

1995

FICTION:

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth. London : Jonathan Cape, c1995.

ISBN: 0224041576

NONFICTION:

The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg. New York : Random House, 1995.

ISBN: 0679422153

POETRY:

Passing Through: The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz. W.W. Norton; Reprint edition, 1997.

ISBN: 0393316157

 

1994

FICTION:

A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis. New York : Poseidon Press, 1994.

ISBN: 0671669842

NONFICTION:

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1994.

ISBN: 0679414614

POETRY:

A Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate. HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.

ISBN: 0880014318

 

1993

FICTION:

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx. Hingham, Mass. : Wheeler, c1993

ISBN:. 1568950691

NONFICTION:

United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal.  London : Abacus, 1994.

ISBN: 0349105243

POETRY:

Garbage by A. R. Ammons.

 

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*Please refer to the official website of National Book Awards for the winners before 1993.

 

Compiled by LWLL, EMB.       June, 2004.