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The National Book Awards, established in 1950, are awarded by the National Book Foundation. Books are judged by three panels (one each for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) of five judges chosen by the board of directors of the National Book Foundation. Award Winners by Year 2004 Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (HarperCollins) More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (Henry Holt) More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine (Wesleyan University Press) More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: Godless by Pete Hautman (Simon & Schuster) More information: Amazon.com. 2003 Fiction: The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: The Singing by C.K. Williams More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: The Canning Season by Polly Horvath More information: Amazon.com. 2002 Fiction: Three Junes by Julia Glass More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer More information: Amazon.com. 2001 Fiction: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff More information: Amazon.com. 2000 Fiction: In America by Susan Sontag More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan More information: Amazon.com. 1999 Fiction: Waiting by Ha Jin More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Vice: New and Selected Poems by Ai More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt More information: Amazon.com. 1998 Fiction: Charming Billy by Alice McDermott More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern More information: Amazon.com. Young People's Literature: Holes by Louis Sachar More information: Amazon.com. 1997 Fiction: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Effort at Speech by William Meredith More information: Amazon.com. 1996 Fiction: Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: An American Requiem by James Carroll More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth More information: Amazon.com. 1995 Fiction: Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth More information: Amazon.com. 1994 Fiction: Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis More information: Amazon.com. 1993 Fiction: The Shipping News by E. Annie Prouix More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: Garbage by A. R. Ammons More information: Amazon.com. 1992 Fiction: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver More information: Amazon.com. 1991 Fiction: Mating by Norman Rush More information: Amazon.com. Nonfiction: Freedom by Orlando Patterson More information: Amazon.com. Poetry: What Work Is by Philip Levine More information: Amazon.com. 1990 Nonfiction: The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow More information: Amazon.com. Fiction: Middle Passage by Charles Johnson More information: Amazon.com. |