2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards have been announced.

Fiction
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork

Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance

Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End

Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Nonfiction
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying

Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography

Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Poetry
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North

Robert Hass, Time and Materials

David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St.

Stanley Plumly, Old Heart

Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger

Young People’s Literature
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One

M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow

Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl