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The winners of the 2002 National Book Awards were announced on November 20th, at a black-tie ceremony hosted by Steve Martin in New York City. In addition to awards presented in the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's categories, the Directors of the National Book Foundation presented the medal for "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters" to Philip Roth.   Past National Book Award Winners! 2001 2000 Past NBA Winners: Fiction Past NBA Winners: Nonfiction Past NBA Winners: Poetry Past NBA Winners: Young People's Literature More Awards! Back to main Awards page

2002 National Book Award Winners Fiction Three Junes by Julia Glass -- a Book Sense 76 Pick! Other Nominated Finalists: Mark Costello, Big If Adam Haslett, You Are Not a Stranger Here -- a Book Sense 76 Pick! Martha McPhee, Gorgeous Lies Brad Watson, The Heaven of Mercury -- a Book Sense 76 Pick!   Nonfiction Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Other Nominated Finalists: Devra Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes   Poetry In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone Other Nominated Finalists: Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room Alberto Rios, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body Ellen Bryant Voigt, Shadow of Heaven   Young People's Literature The House of the Scorpions by Nancy Farmer -- a Winter 2002 Children's Book Sense 76 Pick! Nominated Finalists: M.T. Anderson, Feed Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Elizabeth Partridge, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie Jacqueline Woodson, Hush

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