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National Book Award finalists named

12:29 PM Wed, Oct 15, 2008 |  | 
Michael Merschel / Editor    Bio |  E-mail  |  News tips

The 2008 National Book Award finalists have been announced. The complete list is available here; a summary from The Associated Press is below.

If one of your own favorites books of the year is here, or missing, leave us a comment about it.

NEW YORK -- Talk about second chances: Eighty-one-year old Peter Matthiessen has received a National Book Award nomination for Shadow Country, an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s.
Others in the fiction category include Marilynne Robinson for Home, a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead; Aleksandar Hemon for The Lazarus Project; and debut authors Salvatore Scibona and Rachel Kushner.
Among the nonfiction finalists: Jane Mayer for The Dark Side, an investigation into the war against terrorism, and Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Richard Howard and Mark Doty are nominees for poetry, while Laurie Halse Anderson is cited for young people's literature.
Winners will be announced November 19.




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