| 2003 Nominees |
| Fiction: |
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The Known World by
Edward P. Jones--Winner! |
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Brick Lane by
Monica Ali |
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A Distant Shore by
Caryl Phillips |
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The Time of Our Singing by
Richard Powers |
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Old School by
Tobias Wolff |
| General Nonfiction: |
|
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy
by Paul Hendrickson--Winner! |
|
The Bounty by
Caroline Alexander |
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Gulag: A History by
Anne Applebaum |
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
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Rising Up and Rising Down
by
William T. Vollman |
| Biography and Autobiography: |
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Krushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman--Winner!
|
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A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
by
Blake Bailey |
|
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
by
Paul Elie |
|
Jonathan Edwards: A Life
by
George M. Marsden |
|
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
by
Carol Loeb Schloss |
| Poetry: |
|
Columbarium by
Susan Stewart--Winner! |
|
Blue Hour by
Carolyn Forché |
|
What Narcissism Means to Me
by
Tony Hoagland |
|
She Says by
Venus Khoury-Ghata |
|
Granted by
Mary Szybist |
| Criticism: |
|
River of Shadows: Edweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
by Rebecca Solnit--Winner! |
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Gritos by
Dagoberto Glib |
|
Songbook by
Nick Hornby |
|
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by
Ross King |
|
Regarding the Pain of Others
by
Susan Sontag |
| The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: |
|
Studs Terkel |
| Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: |
|
Scott McLemme,
Chronicle of Higher Education |
|
2002 |
| Fiction: |
| Atonement
by Ian McEwan (Books)--Winner! |
| Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides (Books) |
| Nowhere
Man by Aleksandar Hemon (Books) |
| Roscoe
by
William Kennedy (Books) |
| The
Darts of Cupid and Other Stories by Edith Templeton (Books) |
| General Nonfiction: |
| A
Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power (Books)--Winner! |
| War
Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges (Books) |
| American
Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche (Books) |
| Brown:
The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez (Books) |
| Edison's
Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood (Books) |
|
Biography and Autobiography: |
| Charles
Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (Books)--Winner! |
| Master
of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (Books)
|
| The
Last American Man by
Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Benjamin
Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan (Books) |
| Will
You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in
American Music by
Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg (Books) |
|
Poetry: |
| Early
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild (Books)--Winner! |
| Leaving
Saturn by Major Jackson (Books) |
| Sleeping
with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen (Books) |
| The
Unswept Room by Sharon Olds (Books) |
| Without
End by Adam Zagajewski (Books) |
|
Criticism: |
| Tests
of Time by William H. Gass (Books)--Winner! |
| Bright
Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball (Books) |
| Old
Man Goya by Julia Blackburn (Books) |
| Reviewery
by Christopher Ricks (Books) |
| Piano
Notes: The World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen (Books) |
|
2001 |
|
Fiction: |
| Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald (Books)--Winner! |
| The
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Books) |
| Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro (Books) |
| Bel
Canto by Ann Patchett (Books) |
| John
Henry Days by Colson Whitehead (Books) |
General Nonfiction: |
| Double
Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker (Books)--Winner! |
| Seabiscuit:
An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (Books) |
| 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 (Books) |
| The
Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
by Nina Bernstein (Books) |
| Neighbors:
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross (Books) |
|
Biography and Autobiography: |
| Boswell's
Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman (Books)--Winner! |
| Borrowed
Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox (Books) |
| Positively
4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez
Fariña, and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu (Books) |
| Milking
the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by
Eugene Walter as told to Katherine Clark (Books) |
| The
Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by
Scandal by Barry Werth (Books) |
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