National Book Awards

[Dave Monroe]

"Critics Announce Book Award Finalists," New York
Times, Tuesday, January 29th, 2002 ...

The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen, a National Book
Award-winning novel about an unhappy Midwestern
family, is a finalist for a National Book Critics
Circle Award.

Among other nominees announced yesterday are a poetry
collection by the 90-year-old Nobel laureate Czeslaw
Milosz, essays by Martin Amis and a novel by W. G.
Sebald, who was killed in a car crash late last year.

Two of 2001's most notable biographies, David
McCullough's "John Adams" and Edmund Morris's
"Theodore Rex," were not cited.

The other fiction finalists, in addition to Mr.
Franzen's novel (from Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and
Sebald's "Austerlitz" (Random House), are Ann
Patchett's "Bel Canto" (HarperCollins), Colson
Whitehead's "John Henry Days" (Doubleday) and Alice
Munro's latest short-story collection, "Hateship,
Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" (Knopf). 

Paula Fox's memoir "Borrowed Finery" (Holt) is a
finalist in biography and autobiography, as are Barry
Werth's "Scarlet Professor" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday),
Adam Sisman's "Boswell's Presumptuous Task" (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux), David Hajdu's "Positively Fourth
Street" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and "Milking the
Moon" (Crown) by Eugene Walter, as told to Katherine
Clark. Mr. Walter, an award-winning writer and
translator, died in 1998.

Nominees for general nonfiction are "Seabiscuit"
(Random House) by Laura Hillenbrand, "The Brother"
(Random House) by Sam Roberts, "The Lost Children of
Wilder" (Pantheon) by Nina Bernstein, "Double Fold"
(Random House) by Nicholson Baker and "Neighbors"
(Princeton University) by Jan T. Gross. Mr. Roberts is
an editor for The New York Times and Ms. Bernstein is
a Times reporter. 

Joining Mr. Milosz's "Treatise on Poetry"
(Ecco/HarperCollins) in the poetry category are
"Saving Lives" (Ohio State University) by Albert
Goldbarth, "The Seven Ages" (Ecco/HarperCollins) by
Louise Glück, "Given Sugar, Given Salt"
(HarperCollins) by Jane Hirshfield and "Animal Soul"
(Invisible Cities) by Bob Hicok.

In addition to Mr. Amis's "War Against Cliché"
(Talk/Miramax), W. D. Snodgrass's "De/Compositions"
(Graywolf), Joy Williams's "Ill Nature" (Lyons),
Rebecca Solnit's "As Eve Said to the Serpent"
(University of Georgia) and H. J. Jackson's
"Marginalia" (Yale University) were nominated in the
criticism category.

The winners are to be announced March 11.

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is
an organization of book editors and critics with 750
members.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/arts/29AWAR.html

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