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2001
Fiction: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald--Winner!
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice
Munro
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
General Nonfiction: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker--Winner!
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He
Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by
Nina Bernstein
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan T. Gross
Biography and Autobiography: Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making
of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman--Winner!
Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi
Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene
Walter as told to Katherine Clark
The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
by Barry Werth
Poetry: Saving Lives by Albert Goldbarth--Winner!
The Seven Ages by Louise Glück
A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
Animal Soul by Bob Hicok
Criticism: The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
by Martin Amis--Winner!
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson
De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong by W.D. Snodgrass
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit
Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by Joy
Williams
2000
Fiction: Being Dead by Jim Crace--Winner!
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories by Amy Bloom
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
General Nonfiction: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover--Winner!
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British
North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold
War by Frances FitzGerald
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice
Kaplan
Biography and Autobiography: Hirohito and the Making of Modern
Japan by Herbert P. Bix--Winner!
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the
Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 by Victor Klemperer
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw
Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadie
Poetry: Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan--Winner!
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
The Ledge by Michael Collier
Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs
Criticism: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays by Cynthia Ozick--Winner!
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the
Present by Jacques Barzun
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New by Charles Rosen
A Poetry of Two Minds by Sherod Santos
1999
Fiction: Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem--Winner!
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories by David Gates
General Nonfiction: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His
Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner--Winner!
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History by Jane Brox
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl
The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul
Kauffmann
Biography and Autobiography: The Hairstons: An American Family
in Black and White by Henry Wiencek--Winner!
Coleridge, Volume II: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times by
Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones
Poetry: Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone--Winner!
Diva by Rafael Campo
HIV, Mon Amour by Tory Dent
On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove
Dailies and Rushes by Susan Kinsolving
Criticism: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges--Winner!
Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order by Stuart Klawans
Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry by William Logan
Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season by David Shields
1998
Fiction: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro--Winner!
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Preston Falls by David Gates
No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
General Nonfiction: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will
Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch--Winner!
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter
Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin
Biography and Autobiography: A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar--Winner!
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
King of the World by David Remnick
Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Poetry: The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot--Winner!
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Self-Evidence by Pamela White Hadas
Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa
Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler by Thylias Moss
Criticism: Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddins--Winner!
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Hip Hop America by Nelson George
1997
Fiction: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald--Winner!
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Underworld by Don DeLillo
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine
General Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by
Anne Fadiman--Winner!
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline
Maier
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Biography and Autobiography: Ernie Pyle's War by James Tobin--Winner!
Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing
Boyhood: Scenes from a Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
Poetry: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright--Winner!
Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman
Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Does Your House Have Lions? by Sonia Sanchez
Desire by Frank Bidart
Criticism: Making Waves by Mario Vargas Llosa--Winner!
God and the American Writer by Alfred Kazin
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick
The Pleasures of Imagination by John Brewer
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters:
Leslie Fiedler
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Thomas Mallon
1996
Fiction: Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault--Winner!
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
From Bondage by Henry Roth
General Nonfiction: Bad Land by Jonathan Raban--Winner!
Great Books by David Denby
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen
Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
Biography and Autobiography: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt--Winner!
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
The Last Happy Occasion by Alan Shapiro
Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford
Poetry: Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass--Winner!
Loosestrife by Stephen Dunn
Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada
Music Minus One by Jane Shore
The Vigil by C.K. Williams
Criticism: Finding a Form by William Gass--Winner!
Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life by Gene H. Bell-Villada
The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter
Fame & Folly by Cynthia Ozick
Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters:
Albert Murray
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Dennis Drabelle
1995
Fiction: Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin--Winner!
Moo by Jane Smiley
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Independence Day by Richard Ford
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West
General Nonfiction: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr--Winner!
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for
Books by Nicholas Basbanes
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
by Fox Butterfield
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
Biography and Autobiography: Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
by Robert Polito--Winner!
Poetry: Time & Money: New Poems by William Matthews--Winner!
Criticism: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
by Robert Darnton--Winner!
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