Awards & Winners

2000 National Book Award

Check winners and nominations of 2000 National Book Award. Check awards winners of 2000 National Book Awards Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

2000 National Book Awards Ceremony

National Book Award for Fiction

Susan Sontag

Honored for : In America

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Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Sontag In America
Charles Baxter The Feast of Love
Alan Lightman The diagnosis
Joyce Carol Oates Blonde
Francine Prose Blue Angel: A Novel
National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Gloria Whelan

Honored for : Homeless Bird

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Nominee Nominated Work
Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird
Adam Bagdasarian Forgotten Fire
Michael Cadnum The book of the lion
Carolyn Coman Many Stones
Jerry Stanley Hurry freedom
National Book Award for Nonfiction

Nathaniel Philbrick

Honored for : In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Alice Kaplan The Collaborator
David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
Patrick Tierney Darkness in El Dorado
National Book Award for Poetry

Lucille Clifton

Honored for : Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000

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Nominee Nominated Work
Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Kim Addonizio Tell me
Galway Kinnell A New Selected Poems
Kenneth Koch New Addresses: Poems
Bruce Smith The Other Lover