Ian McEwan, Atonement

Fellow Nominees:

• Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
• Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
• William Kennedy, Roscoe
• Edith Templeton, The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories

Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Fellow Nominees:

• Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
• William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
• Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
• Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the quest for Mechanical Life

Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Volume 2

Fellow Nominees:

• Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
• Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
• Charles Hirshberg, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
• Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin

B.H. Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

Fellow Nominees:

• Major Jackson, Leaving Saturn
• Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary
• Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room
• Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems

William H. Gass, Tests of Time

Fellow Nominees:

• Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
• Julia Blackburn, Old Man Goya
• Christopher Ricks, Reviewery
• Charles Rosen, Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard Howard

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Maureen N. McLane