National Book Awards - 2007
FICTION
Winner:
Denis Johnson , Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
> Interview
> Video
> Appreciations on Best of National Book Awards Fiction Blog
Finalists:
Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) - Interview
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - Interview
Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Fiction judges:
Francine Prose (chair), Andrew Sean Greer, Walter Kirn, David Means, and Joy Williams.
NONFICTION
Winner:
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
> Interview
> Video
Finalist:
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
(Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA) - Interview
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
(Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Interview ~
- Book That Changed My Life Essay
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf) - Interview
Nonfiction judges:
David Shields (chair), Deborah Blum, Caroline Elkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, and James Shapiro.
POETRY
Winner:
Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
> Interview
> Video
> NBA Poetry Blog Essay and Archival Material for Hass
Finalist:
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company) - Interview
David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St.
(Louisiana State University Press) - Interview
- Book That Changed My Life Essay
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company) - Interview
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006
(W.W. Norton & Company) - Interview
Poetry Judges:
Charles Simic (chair), Linda Bierds, David St. John,
Vijay Seshadri, and Natasha Trethewey.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown & Company) -
> Interview
> Video
Finalists:
Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) - Interview
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press) - Interview
Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company) - Interview
- Book That Changed My Life Essay
Young People’s Literature Judges:
Elizabeth Partridge (chair), Pete Hautman, James Howe, Patricia McCormick, and Scott Westerfeld.
