October 11, 2012
2012 National Book Award Finalists Announced
By Vanessa Varin
The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards yesterday morning. The finalists for the nonfiction award include:
- Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 (Doubleday)
- Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)
- Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 (Knopf)
- Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas (Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press)
- Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Nonfiction Judges: Brad Gooch, Linda Gordon, Woody Holton, Susan Orlean, Judith Shulevitz
Readers can find a full list of the finalists on their website.
