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. |
*Please refer to the official website of National
Book Awards for the winners before 1993. Compiled
by LWLL, EMB. June, 2004. |