Art of the Memoir:
Winner: Jarhead : a
Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles, by Anthony
Swofford
Finalists:
- The
Bootlegger's Other Daughter, by Mary Cimarolli
- Reading
Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books, by Azar Nafisi
First Nonfiction:
Winner: The Life You
Save May Be Your Own : an American pilgrimage, by Paul Elie
Finalists:
- War
Hospital
: a true story of surgery and survival, by Sheri Fink
- Where They
Lay : searching for America's lost soldiers, by Earl Swift
Art of the Memoir:
Winner: The Black Veil: a memoir with digressions, by
Rick Moody
Finalists:
- Before the Knife: memories of an African
childhood
by Carolyn Slaughter
- On a Wave by Thad Ziolkowski
First Nonfiction:
Winner: Silence on the Mountain: stories of terror, betrayal,
and forgetting in Guatemala, by Daniel Wilkinson
Finalists:
- Of Moths and Men: an evolutionary tale : the
untold
story of science
and the peppered moth, by Judith Hooper
- Complications: a surgeon's notes on an imperfect
science, by Atul
Gawande
- The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Art of the Memoir:
Winner: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, by Paula Fox
Finalists:
- American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by
Marie Arana
- How I Came into My Inheritance: and other true
stories by Dorothy
Gallagher
First Nonfiction:
Winner: The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to
Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein
Finalists:
- Halls of Fame: Essays by John D’Agata
- Seek: Reports from the Edges of America &
Beyond
by Denis Johnson
Art of the Memoir:
Winner: Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, by C.K.
Williams
Finalists:
- Lifesaving: a memoir, by Judith
Barrington
- The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams: a
memoir, by Nasdijj
First Nonfiction:
Winner: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by
Charles
Seife
Finalists:
- Noodling for Flatheads by Burkhard Bilger
- Talk to Me: listening between the lines, by
Anna
Deavere Smith
Art of the Memoir:
Winner: Where the Roots Reach for Water: A Personal and Natural
History of Melancholia, by Jeffery Smith
Finalists:
- The Amateur: an independent life of letters
by
Wendy Lesser
- Kinship: a family's journey in Africa and America
by Philippe Wamba
First Nonfiction:
Winner: The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical
Experiments
in the Cold War, by Eileen Welsome
Finalists:
- Beyond the Narrow Gate: the journey of four
Chinese
women from the Middle
Kingdom to Middle America by Leslie Chang
- Passionate Nomad: the life of Freya Stark by
Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Art of the Memoir: Truth Comes in
Blows: A Memoir,
by Ted Solotaroff
First Nonfiction: We Wish to Inform You
That Tomorrow
We Will Be Killed with Our Families: stories from Rwanda by Philip
Gourevitch
Art of the Memoir:
Winner:
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir, by Peter Balakian
Finalists:
The Names of Things: a passage in the Egyptian desert,
by Susan
Brind Morrow
First Nonfiction: Echoes of a Native Land:
two centuries of
a Russian village, by Serge Schmemann
First Nonfiction: Heaven's Coast: A
Memoir by Mark
Doty
First Nonfiction: The Liars' Club: a
memoir, by
Mary Karr
First Nonfiction: Proofs &
Theories: Essays on Poetry
by Louise Gluck
First Nonfiction: Martyrs' Day:
chronicle of a small
war, by Michael Kelly
First Nonfiction: The Crystal Desert:
summers in Antarctica,
by David G. Campbell
First Nonfiction: Promised Land: the
great Black migration
and how it changed America, by Nicholas Lemann
First Nonfiction: Painter of Darkness:
Leon Golub and
Our Times, by Gerald Marzorati
First Nonfiction: Rainy Season: Haiti
since Duvalier
by Amy Wilentz
First Nonfiction: Magpie Rising:
sketches from the Great
Plains, by Merrill Gilfillan
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