Texas Pages

And the nominees are:
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Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction ($6,000): Gerald Duff, Fire Ants (New South Books); Russell Hardin, Dmitir Esterhaats (Wings Press); and John J. McLaughlin, Run in the Fam'ly (University of Tennessee Press).
Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-fiction ($5,000): Paul F. Boller, Presidential Diversions: Presidents at Play from George Washington to George W. Bush (Harcourt); William Roger Holman, The Orphans' Nine Commandments (Texas Christian University Press); and Robert Krueger and Kathleen Tobin Krueger, From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi (University of Texas Press).
TIL Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book ($2,500): Steve Bickerstaff, Lines in the Sand: Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay (University of Texas Press); Stuart Reid, The Secret War for Texas (Texas A&M University Press); and Jerry Thompson, Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas (Texas A&M University Press).
Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry ($1,200): Robert Bonazzi, Maestro of Solitude (Wings Press); Jacqueline Kolosov, Vago (Lewis-Clark Press), and Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande Books).
Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction ($1,000): Elizabeth Bruce, And Silent Left the Place (Washington Writers' Publishing House), and John J. McLaughlin, Run in the Fam'ly (University of Tennessee Press).
O. Henry Award for Best Work of Magazine Journalism ($1,000): Jessica Apple, "Happy Anniversary," Financial Times; Rick Bass, "The Lives of the Browns," Southern Review; and Cynthia Leal Massey, "Is UT Holding Our Heritage Hostage?" Scene in SA Monthly.
Stanley Walker Award for Best Work of Newspaper Journalism Appearing in Newspaper or Sunday Supplement ($1,000):
Todd Bensman, "Breaching America," San Antonio Express-News; Ralph Blumenthal, "In East Texas, Residents Take On a Lake-Eating Monster," New York Times; and Ron Rozelle, series of personal columns in Brazosport Facts.
Fred Whitehead Award for Best Design of a Trade Book ($750): Julie Savasky and DJ Stout, Reflections of a Man: The Photographs of Stanley Marcus, (Cairn Press); Julie Savasky and DJ Stout, Longhorn Football: An Illustrated History (University of Texas Press); and William Wittliff and Julie Savasky, A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (University of Texas Press).
Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story ($750): Kerry Nefille Bakken,
"Careless," Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Spring 2007; Rick Bass,
"The Elephant," Tin House, Summer 2007; and Bret Anthony Johnston, "Republican," Ploughshares, Fall 2007.
Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Children's Book ($500): Arturo O. Martinez, Pedrito's World (Texas Tech University Press); and Roxie Munro, Rodeo (Bright Sky).
Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Young Adult Book ($500): Weezie Kerr Mackey, Throwing Like a Girl (Marshall Cavendish); Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?, Tales of Driving and Being Driven (Greenwillow Books, imprint of Harper/Collins Publishers); and Brian Yanksy, Wonders of the World (Flux, Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.)
The Lon Tinkle Award for excellence sustained throughout a career will be given to Southern Methodist University historian David Weber, prize-winning author of works about the American Southwest and Mexico. A cash prize of $1,500 accompanies this award.