Lifetime Achivement:  Robert A. Caro

Lifetime Achievement:  Joyce Carol Oates

Lifetime Achivement:  Kurt Vonnegut

Lifetime Achivement:  David McCullough

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Fiction:  Good Cop, Bad Cop--Barbara D'Amato

Nonfiction:  Lala's Story: A Memoir of the Holocaust--Lala Fishman and Steven Weingartner

Children's Literature:  Rapunzel--Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky

Poetry:  information unknown

Fiction:  Blood and Milk--Sharon Solwitz

Nonfiction:  Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu--Ted Anton

Children's Literature:  Washington City Is Burning--Harriette Gillem Robinet

Poetry:  The Singing Shark--Rane Arroyo

Fiction:  Going to the Sun--James McManus

Nonfiction:  Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa--James T. Campbell

Children's Literature:  The Seasons Sewn: A Year in Patchwork--Ann Whitford Paul; Michael McCurdy

Poetry:  Divine Attention--Paulette Roesky

Fiction:  The Lawyer's Chambers and Other Stories--Lowell B. Komie

Nonfiction:  Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks and Poets--Jan Novak

Children's Literature:  Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis--Laurie Lawlor

Poetry:  Colors of Desire--David Mura

Fiction:  Coffee Will Make You Black--April Sinclair

Nonfiction:  Red Azalea--Anchee Min

Children's Literature:  Catherine, Called Birdy--Karen Cushman

Poetry:  Dark Legs and Silk Kisses--Angela Jackson

Fiction:  So Far from God: A Novel--Ana Castillo

Nonfiction:  Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.--Luis Rodriguez

Children's Literature:  Life's a Funny Proposition, Horatio--Barbara Garland Polikoff

Poetry:  Big Towns, Big Talk--Patricia Smith 

Fiction:  Aquamarine--Carol Anshaw

Nonfiction:  Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race--Gary Rivlin

Children's Literature:  Knee Holes--Jerome Brooks

Poetry:  Maybe It Was So--Reginald Gibbons

Fiction:  Now You See It--Cornelia Nixon

Nonfiction:  There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America--Alex Kotlowitz

Children's Literature:  The Bridge Dancers--Carol Saller

Poetry:  Star Ledger--Lynda Hull 

Fiction:  Family Pictures--Carmen Lomas Garza

Nonfiction:  The Still Point--Laurence Gonzales

Children's Literature:  The House on Walenska Street--Charlotte Herman; Susan Avishai

Poetry:  Waving from Shore--Lisel Mueller 

Fiction:  No Award Given

Nonfiction:  The Life of Andrew Jackson--Robert Remini

Children's Literature:  A Circle Unbroken--Sollace Hotze

Poetry:  Heartdance--Nat David 

Fiction:  Spirit Seizures--Melissa Pritchard

Nonfiction:  Belfast Diary--John Conroy

Children's Literature:  The Goats--Brock Cole

Poetry:  Sudden Hunger--Debra Bruce

Fiction:  Paco's Story--Larry Heinemann

Nonfiction:  The Closing of the American Mind--Allan David Bloom

Children's Literature:  Eli's Ghost--Betsy Hearne; Ronald Himler

Poetry:  Idea--Paul Hoover

Fiction:  The Willys Dream Kit--Jan Novak

Nonfiction:  Mies Van Der Rohe--Franz Schulze

Children's Literature:  Thatcher Payne-In-The-Neck--Betty Bates; Linda Strauss Edwards

Poetry:  No Award Given

Fiction:  Her First American--Lore Segal

Nonfiction:  Freedom Rising--James North

Children's Literature:  The Search for Grissi--Mary Francis Shura; Ted Lewin

Poetry:  New Faces of 1952--Maxine Chernoff 

Fiction:  Two Wings to Veil My Face--Leon Forrest

Nonfiction:  The Transfer Agreement--Edwin Black

Children's Literature:  Pitcher Plants--Carol Lerner

Poetry:  March Light--Ralph Mills 

Fiction:  Days of Vengeance--Harry Petrakis

Nonfiction:  The Blue Planet--Louis B Young

Children's Literature:  Wait, Skates!--Mildred Johnson

Poetry:  The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go--Sterling Plumpp 

Fiction:  The Dean's December--Saul Bellow

Nonfiction:  Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction - Hawthorne to Faulkner--Christian M Messenger

Children's Literature:  Behind the Scenes at the Horse Hospital--Fern G. Brown

Poetry:  West of Chicago--David Etter 

Fiction:  Father's Day--Eugene Kennedy

Nonfiction:  American Dreams: Lost and Found--Studs Terkel

Children's Literature:  Do Bananas Chew Gum?--Jamie Gilson

Poetry:  Succession--Mary Swander 

Fiction:  Night Studies: A Novel--Cyrus Colter

Nonfiction:  Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur--Ernest Samuels

Children's Literature:  Cute Is a Four Letter Word--Stella Pevsner

Poetry:  Scatter - Selected Poems--John Jacob

Fiction:  Natural Shocks--Richard G. Stern

Nonfiction:  Himself : The Life and Times of Richard J. Daley--Eugene Kennedy