1997 National Book Awards Ceremony
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National Book Award for Fiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Charles Frazier |
Cold Mountain
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| Don DeLillo |
Underworld
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| Diane Johnson |
Le Divorce
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| Ward Just |
Echo House
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| Cynthia Ozick |
The Puttermesser Papers
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National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Han Nolan |
Dancing on the Edge
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| Brock Cole |
The facts speak for themselves
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| Adele Griffin |
Sons of Liberty
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| Mary Ann McGuigan |
Where You Belong
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| Tor Seidler |
Mean Margaret
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National Book Award for Nonfiction
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Joseph J. Ellis |
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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| David Kertzer |
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
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| Jamaica Kincaid |
My Brother
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| Thomas Lynch |
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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| Sam Tanenhaus |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
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National Book Award for Poetry
Nominations »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| John Balaban |
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems
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| Frank Bidart |
Desire
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| Sarah Lindsay |
Primate Behavior
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| Marilyn Nelson |
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
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| William Morris Meredith |
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems
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