Finalists and Winners
(Prize-winning titles in boldface)
Biography or Memoir
Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend
The University of Georgia Press
Written by Steve Courtney
The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood
University of Missouri Press
Written by Margaret Gibson
Children’s Author
Fly, Monarch, Fly!
Marshall Cavendish Children
Written by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
The Freedom Business, Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Wordsong: Boyds Mills Press
Written by Marilyn Nelson
Waiting for Normal
Katherine Tegen Books: HarperCollins Publishers
Written by Leslie Connor
Children’s Illustrator
Baseball Hour
Marshall Cavendish Children
Illustrated by Bill Thomson
The Freedom Business, Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Wordsong: Boyds Mills Press
Illustrated by Deborah Dancy
The Wolves Are Back
Dutton Children’s Books: Penguin Young Readers Group
Illustrated by Wendell Minor
Design
Scrapbooks: An American History
Yale University Press
Designed by Jessica Helfand
Fiction
Dinosaurs on the Roof
Simon & Schuster
Written by David Rabe
Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
HarperCollins
Written by Alice Mattison
Songs for the Missing
Viking
Written by Stewart O’Nan
Nonfiction
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Viking
Written by Kevin Phillips
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Pantheon
Written by Charles Barber
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003
Viking
Written by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
Harvard University Press
Written by Azimi Fakhreddin
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror
Viking
Written by Jonathan Stevenson
Poetry
Let’s Not Call It Consequence
Shearsman Books (UK)
Written by Richard Deming
The Odes of Horace
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Translated by Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz
Present Vanishing
Sarabande Book
Written by Dick Allen
House of Good Hope
University of Nebraska Press
Written by Michael Downs
I’ll Fly Away
HarperCollins
Edited by Wally Lamb
The 17 Traditions
HarperCollins
Written by Ralph Nader
Children’s Author
The Day My Mother Left
Simon & Schuster
Written by James Prosek
Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color
Wordsong: Boyds Mills Press
Written by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson
Scribble
Alfred A. Knopf: Random House
Written by Deborah Freedman
The Tale of Pip & Squeak
Dutton Children’s Books: Penguin Group
Written by Kate Duke
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Written by Elise Broach
Children’s Illustrator
The Busy Little Squirrel
Simon & Schuster
Illustrated by Nancy Tafuri
Hey Batta Batta Swing!
Simon & Schuster
Illustrated by Ross MacDonald
Sitting Bull Remembers
Harper Collins
Illustrated by Wendell Minor
The Tale of Pip & Squeak
Dutton Children’s Books: Penguin Group
Illustrated by Kate Duke
Design
Drawn to Enchant
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Designed by Howard Gralla
Opium Season
Globe Pequot Press
Designed by Georgiana Goodwin
Smotherhood
Globe Pequot Press
Designed by Jane Sheppard
Fiction
Exit Ghost
Houghton Mifflin
Written by Philip Roth
Last Night at the Lobster
Penguin Group
Written by Stewart O’Nan
On Borrowed Wings
Atria Books: Simon & Schuster
Written by Chandra Prasad
Soul Catcher
HarperCollins
Written by Michael White
Spaceman Blues
Tor Books
Written by Brian Slattery
Nonfiction
Children in Room E4
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Written by Susan Eaton
Kitchen Literacy
Island Press
Written by Ann Vileisis
A Slave No More
The Harcourt
Written by David W. Blight
Poetry
One Body
Louisiana State University Press
Written by Margaret Gibson
Teeth
Curbstone Press
Written by Aracelis Girmay
The Wife of the Left Hand
Shearsman Books (UK)
Written by Nancy Kuhl
Suzanne “Suzy” Staubach
The Most Famous Man in America:
Debby Applegate
Doubleday
A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Connecticut Slave
Denis R. Caron
University of New Hampshire Press/published by University Press of New England
Girls of Tender Age
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Free Press/Simon & Schuster
Children’s Author
Victory
Susan Cooper
Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster
John, Paul, George & Ben
Lane Smith
Hyperion
The Best Winds
Laura Williams
Boyds Mills Press
Children’s Illustrator
Adèle & Simon
Barbara McClintock
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Building with Dad
Bill Thomson
Marshall Cavendish
Little Red Riding Hood
Andrea Wisnewski
David R. Godine
Design
Rossiter: Country Houses of Washington, Connecticut
Wendell Minor
Gunn Memorial Library
Mocha & Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939
Jonathan Rickard
University Press of New England
Fiction
Two Time
Chistopher Knopf
Permanent Press
Everyman
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
Triangle
Katharine Weber
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nonfiction
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise & Fall of Slavery in the New World
David Brion Davis
Oxford University Press
Rumspringa
Tom Shachtman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Yale Book of Quotations
Fred Shapiro
Yale University Press
Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881-2006
Bruce M. Stave
University Press of New England
Poetry
None chosen
Morton Schindel
Songs from the Black Chair
Charles Barber
University of Nebraska Press
Them: A Memoir of Parents
Francine du Plessix Gray
Penguin Group
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Roya Hakakian
Random
Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia
Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D.
St. Martin’s Press
Children’s Author
Basketball (Or Something Like It)
Nora Raleigh Baskin
HarperCollins Children’s Books
Shakespeare’s Secret
Elise Broach
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
Philip Caputo
Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Bad Baby
Ross MacDonald
Roaring Brook Press
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence
Judith St. George
Penguin Young Readers Group: Philomel Books
Children’s Illustrator
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
Benny Andrews
Candlewick Press
Think Cool Thoughts
Linda Bronson
Clarion/Houghton Mifflin
Seven Spunky Monkeys
Lynn Munsinger
Harcourt
Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds
Sue Ramá
Charlesbridge Publishing
Alphabet House
Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
Marshall Cavendish
Design
The Stolen Texts of Molière: An Exhibition of Plagiarized, Pirated & Misappropriated Works from the Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection
Howard I. Gralla
Yale University, Beinecke Library
The Works: Anatomy of a City
George Kokkinidis with Alexander Isley, Inc.
The Penguin Press
Fiction
Love and Ghost Letters
Chantel Acevedo
St. Martin’s Press
The Last Refuge
Chris Knopf
The Permanent Press
Speak Softly, She Can Hear
Pam Lewis
Simon & Schuster
In Case We’re Separated
Alice Mattison
HarperCollins
Primitive Heart
David Rabe
Grove Atlantic
Nonfiction
Village of the Dammed: The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town
James Lomuscio
University Press of New England
MacArthur’s Escape: John “Wild Man” Bulkeley and the Rescue of an American Hero
George W. Smith
Zenith Press
Tango: The Art History of Love
Robert Farris Thompson
Random House
Poetry
American Sublime
Elizabeth Alexander
Graywolf Press
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Persea Books
Laws of My Nature
Margot Schilpp
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Lifetime Achievement
Marilyn Nelson
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
Penguin Group: 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
Vivian Shipley
My Father’s Footprints: A Memoir
Colin McEnroe
Warner Books
Uncas: First of the Mohegans
Michael Leroy Oberg
Cornell University Press
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
Jacques Pépin
Houghton Mifflin
Eleonora Duse: A Biography
Helen Sheehy
Knopf
Children’s Literature―Author
Saving the Planet and Stuff
Gail Gauthier
Penguin Young Reader’s Group
Black All Around
Patricia Hubbell
Lee & Low Books
Don’t Hold Me Back
Winfred Rembert
Cricket Books
Tangled Threads
Pegi Deitz Shea
Houghton Mifflin: Clarion Books
Children’s Literature―Illustrator
Into the Woods
Wendell Minor
Simon & Schuster: Atheneum
Don't Hold me Back
Winfred Rembert
Cricket Books
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country
Lane Smith
Penguin Group: Viking
Design
Diving the World
Lori S. Malkin
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
Language of Her Body
Robin Price
Robin Price, Printer and Publisher
Fiction
Voices
Janice Law
Forge Books
The Night Country
Stewart O’Nan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Family History
Dani Shapiro
Knopf
The Little Women
Katharine Weber
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nonfiction
Voices of the New Republic
Christopher Bickford and Howard Lamar
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Naked in Baghdad
Anne Garrels
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Race to the Sky
Stephen B. Goddard
McFarland & Company
The Doctors’ Plague
Sherwin B. Nuland
W.W. Norton
City: Urbanism and Its End
Douglas W. Rae
Yale University Press
Poetry
The Day Before
Dick Allen
Sarabande Books
Autumn Grasses
Margaret Gibson
Louisiana State University Press
The Midnight
Susan Howe
New Directions
Wally Lamb
Hamlet’s Dresser
Bob Smith
Scribner
Lillie Devereux Blake: Retracing a Life Erased
Grace Farrell
University of Massachusetts Press
A Chapel of Thieves
Bruce Clements
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Lightland
H.L. McCutchen
Scholastic Books
Pipaluk and the Whales
John Himmelman
National Geographic Books for Young Readers
Abraham Lincoln
David A. Johnson
Scholastic Books
Can You See What I See?
Walter Wick
Scholastic Books
Dahlia
Barbara McClintock
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
A Cottage Garden Alphabet
Designed and written by Andrea Wisnewski
David R. Godine
The Last Resort
Designed by Rita Marshall and written by J. Patrick Lewis
Creative Editions
Reinventing the Wheel
Designed and written by Jessica Helfand
Winterhouse Editions
Flesh Tones
M.J. Rose
Ballantine Books
The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed
Janice Law
Forge Books
Love Her Madly
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Henry Holt
Nerves of the Heart
Lucy Ferriss
University of Tennessee Press
Wish You Were Here
Stewart O’Nan
Grove Press
Discovering Moths
John Himmelman
Down East Books
Landscape of History
John Lewis Gaddis
Oxford University Press
Schnitzler’s Century
Peter Gay
W.W. Norton
Stone by Stone
Robert Thorson
Walker and Company
Wealth and Democracy
Kevin Phillips
Broadway Books
Against Consolation
Robert Cording
Cavankerry Press
The Water Carrier
Steve Straight
Curbstone Press
When There Is No Shore
Vivian Shipley
Word Press
Rennie McQuilkin
Emily Hall Tremaine: Collector on the Cusp
Kathleen L. Housley
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
Char Miller
Island Press
Carver: A Life in Poems
Marilyn Nelson
Front Street Books
Molly and the Magic Wishbone
Barbara McClintock
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Shooting for the Moon
Bernie Fuchs
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Carver: A Life in Poems
Marilyn Nelson
Front Street Books
Christmas in Connecticut
Diane Smith
Globe Pequot
Infinity and Perspective
Karsten Harries
MIT Press
The Dying Animal
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
The Gardens of Kyoto
Kate Walbert
Scribner
Personal Velocity
Rebecca Miller
Grove Press
Beyond the Big Talk
Debra Haffner
Newmarket Press
Botany of Desire (tie)
Michael Pollan
Random House
I Knew a Woman (tie)
Cortney Davis
Random House
A Matter of Degree
Don Massey and Rick Davey
Willow Brook Press
Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids
Martin Isler
University of Oklahoma Press
Carver: A Life in Poems
Marilyn Nelson
Front Street Books
Darling
Honor Moore
Grove Press
Icon and Evidence
Margaret Gibson
Louisiana State University Press
Lifetime Achievement
Alexander Taylor & Judith Doyle, Curbstone Press
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