Fiction Winner

• Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Amistad)

Fiction Finalists

• Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Scribner)
• Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Tobias Wolff, Old School (Knopf)
• Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Viking Press)
• Anne Applebaum, Gulag (Doubleday)
• Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Scribner)
• William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down (McSweeneys)

Biography Winner

• William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Norton)

Biography Finalists

• Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Blake Bailey, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates (Picador)
• George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (Yale University Press)
• Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Poetry Winner

• Susan Stewart, Columbarium (University of Chicago Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Carolyn Forche, Blue Hour (HarperCollins)
• Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me (Graywolf)
• Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker, She Says (Graywolf)
• Mary Szybist, Granted (Alice James Books)

Criticism Winner

• Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (Viking Press)

Criticism Finalists

• Dagoberto Gilb, Gritos (Grove)
• Nick Hornby, Songbook (McSweeneys)
• Ross King, Michelangelo & the Popes Ceiling (Walker)
• Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner

• Scott McLemee

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Studs Terkel

Fiction Winner

• Ian McEwan, Atonement (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)

Fiction Finalists

• Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• William Kennedy, Roscoe (Viking)
• Edith Templeton, The Darts of Cupid: And Other Stories (Pantheon)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (PublicAffairs)
• William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center (North Point Press/FSG)
• Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America (Viking)
• Gaby Wood, Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life (Knopf)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (Knopf)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf)
• Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man (Viking)
• Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (Yale University Press)
• Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music (Simon & Schuster)

Poetry Winner

• B.H. Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Norton)

Poetry Finalists

• Major Jackson, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press)
• Harryette Mullen, Sleeping With the Dictionary (University of California Press)
• Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room (Knopf)
• Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Criticism Winner

• William H. Gass, Tests of Time (Knopf)

Criticism Finalists

• Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Julia Blackburn, Old Man Goya (Pantheon)
• Christopher Ricks, Reviewery (Handsel Books/Other Press)
• Charles Rosen, Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (Free Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Maureen N. McLane

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Richard Howard

Fiction Winner

• W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Random House)

Fiction Finalists

• Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Knopf)
• Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (HarperCollins)
• Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days (Doubleday)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Random House)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Pantheon)
• Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton University)
• Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Random House)
• Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair (Random House)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Adam Sisman, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery: A Memoir (Holt)
• David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Katherine Clark, Milking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on This Planet (Crown)
• Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)

Poetry Winner

• Albert Goldbarth, Saving Lives (Ohio Statue University)

Poetry Finalists

• Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages (Ecco/HarperCollins)
• Bob Hicok, Animal Soul (Invisible Cities)
• Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins)
• Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry (Ecco/HarperCollins)

Criticism Winner

• Martin Amis, The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (Talk Miramax)

Criticism Finalists

• H.J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (Yale University)
• W.D. Snodgrass, De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong (Graywolf)
• Rebecca Solnit, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (University of Georgia)
• Joy Williams, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals (Lyons)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Michael Gorra

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Jason Epstein

Fiction Winner

• Jim Crace, Being Dead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Fiction Finalists

• Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Random House)
• Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Random House)
• David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories (Context Books)
• Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Random House)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Fred Anderson, Crucible of War (Knopf)
• Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (Simon & Schuster)
• Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion)
• Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (Univ. of Chicago)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics (Houghton Mifflin)
• Victor Kemplerer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 (Random House)
• David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin)
• Jean-Yves Tadie, Marcel Proust: A Life (Viking)

Poetry Winner

• Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (LSU)

Poetry Finalists

• Michael Collier, The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin)
• Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (Knopf)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule (Yale)

Criticism Winner

• Cynthia Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (Knopf)

Criticism Finalists

• Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present (HarperCollins)
• Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds (Knopf)
• Charles Rosen, Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New (Harvard Univ. Press)
• Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds (University of Georgia Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Daniel Mendelsohn

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Barney Rosset

Fiction Winner

• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday)

Fiction Finalists

• A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne (Morrow)
• Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector (Harmony: Crown)
• J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Viking)
• David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History (Beacon)
• John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Norton)
• Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (Norton)
• Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena (Four Walls Eight Windows)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (St. Martin’s)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections (Pantheon)
• Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (Random)
• Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf)
• Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (Little, Brown)

Poetry Winner

• Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words (Paris Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Rafael Campo, Diva (Duke Univ. Press)
• Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour (Sheep Meadow)
• Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks (Norton)
• Susan Kingsolving, Dailies & Rushes (Grove)

Criticism Winner

• Jorge Louis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (Viking)

Criticism Finalists

• Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (Cassell)
• William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry (Univ. Pr. of Florida)
• Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets (Knopf)
• David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season (Crown)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Benjamin Schwarz

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

• Pauline Kael
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fiction Winner

• Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Knopf)

Fiction Finalists

• Michael Cunningham, The Hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• David Gates, Preston Falls (Knopf)
• Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (Knopf)
• Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life (Harcourt)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Philip Gourevich, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Houghton)
• Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Belknap: Harvard)
• Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Norton)
• Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (HarperCollins)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Sylvia Nassar, A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Random House)
• Homer H. Hickman Jr., Rocket Boys: A Memoir (Delacorte)
• David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Random House)
• Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story (Houghton)

Poetry Winner

• Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher (Knopf)

Poetry Finalists

• Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence (Triquarterly, Northwestern)
• Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler (Persea)
• Ann Carson, The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan)

Criticism Winner

• Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Oxford)

Criticism Finalists

• Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage (North Point)
• Nelson George, Hip Hop America (Viking)
• Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Riverhead: Putnam)
• Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner

• Albert Mobilio

Fiction Winner

• Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (Mariner/Houghton)

Fiction Finalists

• Don DeLillo, Underworld (Scribner)
• Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (Grove)
• Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers (Arcade)
• Philip Roth, American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (Villard)
• James Kugel, The Bible as It Was (Belknap Press)
• Pauline Maier, American Scripture (Knopf)
• Stephen Pinker, How the Mind Works (Norton)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• James Tobin, Ernie Pyle’s War (Free Press)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx (Knopf)
• Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (Knopf)
• Doris Lessing, Walking in the Shade (HarperCollins)

Poetry Winner

• Charles Wright, Black Zodiac (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Poetry Finalists

• Frank Bidart, Desire (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Brenda Hillman, Loose Sugar (Wesleyan)
• Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes (Story Line)
• Sonya Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? (Beacon)

Criticism Winner

• Mario Vargas Llosa, Making Waves (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Criticism Finalists

• John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Vivian Gornick, The End of the Novel of Love (Beacon)
• Alfred Kazin, God and the American Writer (Knopf)
• Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Harvard)

Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner

• Thomas Mallon

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Leslie Fiedler

Fiction Winner

• Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds (Counterpoint)

Fiction Finalists

• Louis Begley, About Schmidt (Knopf)
• Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours (Knopf)
• Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Henry Roth, From Bondage (St. Martin’s)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Jonathan Raban, Bad Land (Pantheon)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• David Denby, The Great Books (Simon & Schuster)
• Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Knopf)
• Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes (Knopf)
• Bernard Lewis, The Middle East (Scribner)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes (Scribner)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Cambridge)
• David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Alan Shapiro, The Last Happy Occasion (Chicago)
• Jan Swafford, Charles Ives: A Life in Music (Norton)

Poetry Winner

• Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood (Ecco)

Poetry Finalists

• Stephen Dunn, Loosestrife (Norton)
• Martín Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread (Norton)
• Jane Shore, Music Minus One (Picador)
• C.K. Williams, The Vigil (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Criticism Winner

• William Gass, Finding a Form (Knopf)

Criticism Finalists

• Gene H. Bell-Villada, Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life (Nebraska)
• Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel (Rutgers)
• Dan Hofstadter, The Love Affair as a Work of Art (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly (Knopf)

Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner

• Dennis Drabelle

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Albert Murray

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Fiction Winner

• Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss (Hyperion)

Fiction Finalists

• Richard Ford, Independence Day (Knopf)
• Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Jane Smiley, Moo (Knopf)
• Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist (Scribner)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (Random House)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Holt)
• Madeleine Blais, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle (Atlantic)
• Fox Butterfield, All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Knopf)
• Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (Pantheon)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Robert Polito, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Knopf)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence (Hyperion)
• Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club (Viking)
• David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman’s America (Knopf)
• Robert Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (California)

Poetry Winner

• William Matthews, Time & Money (Houghton Mifflin)

Poetry Finalists

• Lynda Hull, The Only World (Harper)
• James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts (Knopf)
• Carl Phillips, Cortege (Graywolf)
• Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kyrie (Norton)

Criticism Winner

• Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France (Norton)

Criticism Finalists

• Stanley Crouch, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 (Pantheon)
• Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets and Poetasters (Picador)
• John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale University Press)
• Clifford Geertz, After the Fact (Harvard University Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Laurie Stone

NBCC/Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

• Alfred Kazin
• Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction Winner

• Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Viking)

Fiction Finalists

• Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue (Bridge Works)
• Julius Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven (Arcade)
• William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster)
• Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies (Algonquin)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson, Strange Justice (Houghton Mifflin)
• Abraham Verghese, My Own Country (Simon & Schuster)
• Sherwin Nuland, How We Die (Knopf)
• John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (Knopf)

Biography/Autobiography Winner

• Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart (Doubleday)

Biography/Autobiography Finalists

• Julia Frey, Toulouse-Lautrec (Viking)
• Brenda Maddox, D.H. Lawrence (Simon & Schuster)
• Edward O. Wilson, Naturalist (Island Press)
• Neal Gabler, Winchell (Knopf)

Poetry Winner

• Mark Rudman, Rider (Wesleyan/New England)

Poetry Finalists

• Dorianne Laux, What We Carry (BOA Editions)
• Marilyn Hacker, Winter Numbers (Norton)
• Philip Levine, The Simple Truth (Knopf)
• Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters (Knopf)

Criticism Winner

• Gerald Early, The Culture of Bruising (Ecco)

Criticism Finalists

• Jahan Ramazani, Poetry of Mourning (University of Chicago)
• Harold Bloom, The Western Canon (Harcourt Brace)
• Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures (Knopf)
• Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits (Knopf)

Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award Winner

• JoAnn Gutin

Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing Winner

• William Maxwell