Awards & Winners

1999 American Book Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1999 American Book Awards. Check awards winners of 1999 American Book Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Nelson George

Honored for : Hip Hop America
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Josip Novakovich

Honored for : Salvation and other disasters
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E. Donald Two-Rivers

Honored for : Survivor's medicine
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Edwidge Danticat

Honored for : The Farming of Bones
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Gloria Naylor

Honored for : The Men of Brewster Place
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Alice McDermott

Honored for : Charming Billy
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Brian Ward

Honored for : Just my soul responding
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Luis Alberto Urrea

Honored for : Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
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Jerry Lipka, Gerald V. Mohatt, Ciulistet Group

Honored for : Transforming the culture of schools
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Gioia Timpanelli

Honored for : Sometimes the Soul
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Trey Ellis

Honored for : Right Here, Right Now
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James D. Houston

Honored for : The Last Paradise
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Speer Morgan

Honored for : Freshour cylinders
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Gary Gach

Honored for : What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
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Judith Roche, Meg McHutchison

Honored for : First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim
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Anna Linzer

Honored for : Ghost Dancing
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Chiori Santiago

Honored for : Home to Medicine Mountain
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Lauro Flores

Honored for : The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature