MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski presided over the National Book Awards which were held at Cipriani Wall Street and honored authors in four different categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. In order to qualify for awards consideration, a book had to have been published in the US between December 1, 2012 and November 30, 2012 and written by an American citizen. The winners each received $10,000 while finalists each picked up $1,000.
FICTION:
WINNER: James McBride, The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group USA)
Finalists:
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA)
George Saunders, Tenth of December (Random House)
Longlist:
– Tom Drury, Pacific (Grove Press)
– Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point (Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers)
– Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth/Random House)
– Alice McDermott, Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
– Joan Silber, Fools (W.W. Norton & Company)
NONFICTION:
WINNER: George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists:
Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton & Company)
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Longlist:
– T.D. Allman, Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State (Atlantic Monthly Press)
– Gretel Ehrlich, Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Pantheon Book/Random House)
– Scott C. Johnson, The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA (W.W. Norton & Company)
– James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (W.W. Norton & Company)
– Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham Books)
POETRY:
WINNER: Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems (Graywolf Press)
Finalists:
Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion (Alfred A. Knopf)
Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets/Penguin Group USA) Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture (Louisiana State University Press)
Longlist:
– Roger Bonair-Agard, Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books)
– Andrei Codrescu, So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012 (Coffee House Press)
– Brenda Hillman, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan University Press)
– Diane Raptosh, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press)
– Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities (Omnidawn Publishing)
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE:
WINNER: Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Finalists:
Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Tom McNeal, Far Far Away (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group USA)
Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints (First Second/Macmillan)
Longlist:
– Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Candlewick Press)
– Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots (Philomel, A division of Penguin Group USA)
– Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
– David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
– Anne Ursu, The Real Boy (Walden Pond Press/an Imprint HarperCollins Publishers)
Source: National Book Foundation
-Posted by Rebecca Murray
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