National Book Award 2012 Finalists Announced

2012 National Book Award Finalists Announced on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

The twenty Finalists for the National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were announced this morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist. Chairman of the National Book Foundation's Board of Directors, David Steinberger, was a guest on the show. The Finalists are: FICTION Junot Dí­az, This Is How You Lose Her Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King McSweeney's Books Louise Erdrich, The Round House Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds Little, Brown and Company NONFICTION 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 POETRY David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations University of Chicago Press Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies Southern Illinois University Press Tim Seibles, Fast Animal Etruscan Press Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Susan Wheeler, Meme University of Iowa Press YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE William Alexander, Goblin Secrets Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Eliot Schrefer, Endangered Scholastic Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build---- and Steal-- - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press To learn more about the Finalists and the 2012 National Book Awards, visit our website.

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