The Montserrat Review

Finalists for National Book Awards 2000

Young People's Literature

Adam Bagdasarian
Forgotten Fire (A Melanie Kroupa Book, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.)

Michael Cadnum
The Book of the Lion (Viking, Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)

Carolyn Coman
Many Stones (Front Street)

Jerry Stanley
Hurry Freedom! (Crown Publishers)

Gloria Whelan
Homeless Bird (HarperCollins Children's Books)

Nonfiction

Jacques Barzun
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (HarperCollinsPublishers)

Alice Kaplan
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (The University of Chicago Press)

David Levering Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (Henry Holt Company)

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Viking Penguin)

Patrick Tierney
Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (W.W. Norton Company

Poetry

Kim Addonizio
Tell Me (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Lucille Clifton
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 (BOA Editions, Ltd.)

Galway Kinnell
A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Company)

Kenneth Koch
New Addresses: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)

Bruce Smith
The Other Lover (The University of Chicago Press)

Fiction

Charles Baxter
The Feast of Love (Pantheon Books)

Alan Lightman
The Diagnosis (Pantheon Books)

Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde (The Ecco Press/HarperCollinsPublishers)

Francine Prose
Blue Angel (HarperCollinsPublishers)

Susan Sontag
In America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

National Book Awards 2000 Winners