Updated at 2:02 p.m., Wednesday, October 10, 2007
National Book Award nominees announced
Advertiser Staff
The 2007 National Book Award nominees were announced today.
Fiction nominees:
"Tree of Smoke," by Denis Johnson;
"Fieldwork," by Mischa Berlinski;
"Varieties of Disturbance," by Lydia Davi;
"Then We Came to the End," by Joshua Ferris and
"Like You'd Understand, Anyway," by Jim Shepard.
Nonfiction:
"God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," by Christopher Hitchens;
"Brother, I'm Dying," by Edwidge Danticat;
"Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution," by Woody Holton;
"Ralph Ellison: A Biography" by Arnold Rampersand and
"Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA," by Tim Weiner.
Poetry:
"Magnetic North," by Linda Gregerson;
"Time and Materials," by Robert Hass;
"The House on Boulevard Street," by David Kirby;
"Old Heart," by Stanley Plumly and
"Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006," by Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Young People's Literature:
"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie;
"Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One," by Kathleen Duey;
"Touching Snow," by M. Sindy Felin;
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret," by Brian Selznick and
"Story of a Girl," by Sara Zarr.
Winners will be announced at a Manhattan ceremony Nov. 14. Awards also will be given to novelist and essayist Joan Didion, for distinguished contribution to American letters, and to Terry Gross, host and executive producer of National Public Radio's "Fresh Air," for service to the American literary community.
