Connecticut Center for the Book at the
Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-3075
Telephone: 860/695-6320
Fax: 860/722-6870
Email:klyons@hplct.org

2005 Connecticut Book Awards Finalists and Winners*

*winners in boldface

Biography or Memoir

Waltzing the Magpies
Sam Pickering
University of Michigan Press

Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon
Charles Slack
HarperCollins
 

Children’s Literature – Author

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Suzanne Collins
Scholastic

Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel
Leslie Connor
Houghton Mifflin

Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Marilyn Nelson              www.soulmountainretreat.com
Front Street

Cobwebs
Karen Young
HarperCollins
 

Children’s Literature – Illustrator

Who Killed Cock Robin?
Etienne Delessert                      www.etiennedelessert.com
The Creative Company

Science Verse
Lane Smith                               www.baloneyhenryp.com
Viking Children’s Books

Karate Hour
Bill Thomson                             www.billthomson.com
Marshall Cavendish

Design

Lasting Impressions: The Grolier Club Library          
William Drenttel and Don Whelan          www.wdny.com
Winterhouse Editions

Who Killed Cock Robin?        
            Rita Marshall
            The Creative Company

Fiction

Rear View
Peter Duval
Houghton Mifflin

Between Two Rivers
Nicholas Rinaldi                        www.nicholasrinaldibooks.com
HarperCollins

The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin

Our Kind
Kate Walbert
Scribner

The Garden of Martyrs
Michael White
St. Martin’s Press

Nonfiction

The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers           
            George Black
            Houghton Mifflin

            The Last Undiscovered Place
            David K. Leff
            University of Virginia Press

Eugene O’Neill and “Dat Ole Davil Sea”: Maritime Influences in the Life and Works of Eugene O’Neill
Robert A. Richter         
Mystic Seaport 

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment       
            James Gustave Speth                 www.redskyatmorning.com
            Yale University Press

Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginning of Slavery to the End of Caste
            Mark S. Weiner
            Knopf

Poetry

The Descent
Sophie Cabot Black
Graywolf Press

The Clerk's Tale
Spencer Reece
Houghton Mifflin

Instrumentality
Ravi Shankar
Cherry Grove Collections

Stumbling into the Light
Edwina Trentham
Antrim House

Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community

Vivian Shipley