Finalists and Winners
(Prize-winning titles in boldface)
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 www.jacquespepin.net
Houghton Mifflin
Eleonora Duse: A Biography
Helen Sheehy www.helensheehy.org
Knopf
Children’s Literature―Author
Saving the Planet and Stuff
Gail Gauthier www.gailgauthier.com
Penguin Young Reader’s Group
Black All Around
Patricia Hubbell www.kidspoet.com
Lee & Low Books
Don’t Hold Me Back
Winfred Rembert
Cricket Books
Tangled Threads
Pegi Deitz Shea www.pegideitzshea.com
Clarion Books
Children’s Literature―Illustrator
Into the Woods
Wendell Minor www.minorart.com
Atheneum
Don't Hold me Back
Winfred Rembert www.kidspoet.com
Cricket Books
The Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country
Lane Smith www.baloneyhenryp.com
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 www.janicelaw.com
Forge Books
The Night Country
Stewart O’Nan www.stewart-onan.com
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Family History
Dani Shapiro www.danishapiro.com
Knopf
The Little Women
Katharine Weber www.katharineweber.com
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Non-fiction
Voices of the New Republic
Christopher Bickford and Howard Lamar
http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/lamar.html
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Naked in Baghdad
Anne Garrels
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Race to the Sky
Stephen B. Goddard http://www.stephengoddard.com
McFarland & Company
The Doctors’ Plague
Sherwin B. Nuland
W.W. Norton
City: Urbanism and Its End
Douglas W. Rae http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/professors/rae.shtml
Yale University Press
Poetry
The Day Before
Dick Allen
Sarabande Books
Autumn Grasses
Margaret Gibson
Louisiana State University Press
The Midnight
Susan Howe http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/howe
New Directions
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 www.lightlandfans.com
Scholastic Books
Pipaluk and the Whales
John Himmelman www.johnhimmelman.com
National Geographic Books for Young Readers
Abraham Lincoln
David A. Johnson
Scholastic Books
Can You See What I See?
Walter Wick www.walterwick.com
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 http://winterhouse.com
Winterhouse Editions
Flesh Tones
M.J. Rose www.mjrose.com
Ballantine Books
The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed
Janice Law www.janicelaw.com
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 www.stewart-onan.com
Grove Press
Discovering Moths
John Himmelman www.johnhimmelman.com
Down East Books
Landscape of History
John Lewis Gaddis http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/gaddis.html
Oxford University Press
Schnitzler’s Century
Peter Gay
W.W. Norton
Stone by Stone
Robert Thorson www.sp.uconn.edu/~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
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 www.ctarts.org/PoetLaureate.htm
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 www.ctarts.org/PoetLaureate.htm
Front Street Books
Christmas in Connecticut
Diane Smith www.positivelyct.com
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
Michael Pollan
Random House
I Knew a Woman
Cortney Davis www.cortneydavis.com
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 www.ctarts.org/PoetLaureate.htm
Front Street Books
Darling
Honor Moore www.honormoore.com
Grove Press
Icon and Evidence
Margaret Gibson
Louisiana State University Press
