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LETTERS AND DRAMA PRIZES
Fiction
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Waiting" by Ha Jin (Pantheon Books), and "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" by Annie Proulx (Scribner).
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Drama
For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Dinner With Friends" by Donald Margulies.
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "In The Blood" by Suzan-Lori Parks, and "King Hedley II" by August Wilson.
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History
For a distinguished book upon the history of the United States, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" by David M. Kennedy (Oxford University Press).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier" by James H. Merrell (W.W. Norton Company), and "The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, & The Triumph of Anglo-America" by Kevin Phillips (Basic Books).
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Biography
For a distinguished biography or autobiography by an American author, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)" by Stacy Schiff (Random House).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Clear Springs: A Memoir" by Bobbie Ann Mason (Random House), and "Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love" by Dava Sobel (Walker & Co.).
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Poetry
For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Repair" by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "Elegy for the Southern Drawl" by Rodney Jones (Houghton Mifflin Company), and "Midnight Salvage, Poems 1995-1998" by Adrienne Rich (W.W. Norton & Company).
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General Non-Fiction
For a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category, Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
Awarded to "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II" by John W. Dower (W.W. Norton & Company/The New Press).
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene (W.W. Norton & Company), and "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds" by Scott Weidensaul (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
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