Salon.com > national book award finalists http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers among National Book Award finalists http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/junot_diaz_dave_eggers_among_national_book_award_finalists/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/10/junot_diaz_dave_eggers_among_national_book_award_finalists/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13035938 It's been a great year for Junot Díaz: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author recently won a coveted MacArthur genius grant, and his latest book, "This Is How You Lose Her," is a bestseller. Now "Lose Her" has  landed him on the finalist list for the National Book Award. Díaz is joined by veteran writer and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers ("A Hologram for the King"), Pulitzer Prize finalist Louise Erdrich ("The Round House"), Ben Fountain ("Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk") and newcomer Kevin Powers ("The Yellow Birds").

Nonfiction finalists include New Yorker staff writer Katherine Boo's journey in an Indian slum (“Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity"), tireless biographer and journalist Robert A. Caro, for his fourth book on Lyndon B. Johnson (“The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson") and a posthumous nomination for New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid (“House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East"), who died earlier this year while on assignment in Syria.

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